The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa , has said the agency will establish six standard rehabilitation centres, one in each geo-political zone of Nigeria.
According to him, the plan was part of efforts to treat the high number of persons suffering from drug addiction in the country. Marwa, according to a statement on Wednesday by the spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, spoke in Abuja as a special guest of honour at the fifth Biennial National Symposium on Drugs and Drug Policy in Nigeria, organised by the Centre for Research and Information on Substance Abuse.“Findings from the National Drug Use Survey conducted by the UNODC revealed that 14.4 per cent or 14.
“The above findings of the survey by UNODC give a troubling portrait of drug abuse in Nigeria and we can no longer live in denial that Nigeria has a thriving illicit drug culture.
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