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One way to check the menace of drug abuse in Nigeria is for drug test to be conducted on every person before attaining any office in the country Muhammadu Sanusi II, Emir of Kano has said.
This was made known during his speech at the roundtable organised by the senate held in Kano yesterday disusing how to tackle the crisis of drug abuse in Nigeria.
‘Every emir, every politician, every Senator should go through drug test, before attaining any office in the Country they must be subjected to taking a drug test. I will be very happy to subject myself to a drug test” said Sanusi.
“I am not one to stand on political correctness, the nation is facing a great danger and this conversation has to be on the forefront of our National discussion, the honest feedback is not a personal attack, we are not perfect, I pray our politicians understand this.
‘The first problem we have is that we do not implement the existing laws that we have, If we are not implementing the laws we have in the books, what assurance do we have that new laws will be obeyed?’
He further added that the North in particular an entire generation is being destroyed because of drug abuse. “Like I always say, if you do not want to hear the truth do not invite me, political establishment is a fundamental problem,
“We deceive ourselves if we say we are not part of the problem. 90% of issues that we have is lack of political will,
‘The trade in drugs is a protected trade, who are those involved in this, somebody saw them, somebody was bribed. How many rehabilitation center do we have, how well equipped are they, how many human capacity development do we have? , said Sanusi.
ANTHONIA OBOKOH
