NDLEA Applauds Reps Members For Rejecting Cannabis Bill

Representatives for rejecting yet another attempt to push through a bill to decriminalise cannabis cultivation, sale and use in Nigeria.

The NDLEA chairman said the decision by a majority of the lawmakers to reject the bill will further strengthen the gains so far made in the renewed war against drug abuse and trafficking in the country. According to him, “Insecurity is today, a full-blown malady with many manifestations such as insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, murder, robbery, reprisal killing, name it. Yet, there has never been a government that is more committed to ending this spate of insecurity than the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“The persistence of the problem has forced on us the necessity to start to look at likely extraneous factors that might be sustaining the resistance from the criminal elements and in doing so, try to connect the dots. The permutations will lead to a list of probable causes, which will not exclude the use and abuse of illicit substances. In the final analysis, drug abuse is indeed one of the factors fueling insecurity.

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NDLEA commends Reps members' disagreement on marijuana billThe National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has commended some members of the House of Representatives for disagreeing with three of their colleagues over a bill seeking to legalise the cultivation, sale and use of cannabis, also known as marijuana, for commercial purposes. The Senator that brought up the bill is a suspect. Only those who haven’t witnessed the adverse effect of hard drug on the youths and growing teenagers would really contemplate on legalizing it’s use in a country like Nigeria that is notorious for abuse. We are naturally poor with regulations. Don't render NDLEA staffs jobless. They need perpetrators to get meals. 👽
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