The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Drug Abuse, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, (retd), has said that two generations are in the process of being wiped out in the country as a result of hard drugs, unless there is urgent intervention.
Marwa stated this during a working visit by the committee on the director general, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Moji Adeyeye in Abuja.
He said the visit was to enable the committee engage with NAFDAC as it has done with some other key stakeholders while expressing confidence that the present administration is concerned and will effect changes rapidly to end the surge.
Marwa also informed that the committee, by this weekend, will break into sub-committees that will visit zones to involve relevant stakeholders at state level even as far as local government and communities levels and bring back their reports.
Responding, NAFDAC DG, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, said “this administration has taken it upon itself to eliminate the scourge of drug abuse in the country. However, we talk about eliminating drug abuse and we just leave it at talk because we are very good at talking but with Gen. Marwa, I am confident.”
She however blamed the scourge on the country’s porous borders and the withdrawal of NAFDAC from the port from 2011 to 2018, saying “when I joined NAFDAC about a year ago, I was focusing on substandard, falsified medicines that are destroying our people because of the porous borders that we have and because NAFDAC was removed from the port between 2011 and 2018. That resulted in destruction of lives of our own children, the tramadol, codeine and all others. But thank God the trend has been reversed by returning NAFDAC to the port and since the return, there has been changes.
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