Nigeria: Ndlea Decries Drug Addiction Among Youth - AllAfrica.com

Emmanuel UgwuUmuahia

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have alerted the authorities of Abia State and parents on the growth figure of immature people getting involved in the concern of difficult drugs, attributing the ugly tendency to the "alarming law-breaking wave" in Abia.

Commander of NDLEA Abia State Command, Mr. Justice Arinze, sounded the dismay bell at Aba while parading 19 suspected drug barons, pedlars and nuts including a 13 twelvemonth old male child named Ebuka Ekwualor.

"The maltreatment of narcotic drugs have got led to an rush in violent law-breakings such as as as armed robbery and societal law-breakings such as snatch and harlotry in Aba and Abia State," he said.

Arinze explained that the drug merchandisers and nuts were arrested during a joint NDLEA/military trading operations launched "to dislodge drug Barons and their cohorts from highly volatile achromatic musca volitans in Aba and its environs."

He specifically named the commercial metropolis of Aba as the Centre of difficult drugs in Abia, pointing out that the volatile achromatic musca volitans for difficult drugs in Enyimba City include Bakassi Ariaria, Ariaria Old Express, Black Shit, House Of York Street, among others.

"In these countries criminal elements garner to mistreat drugs and thereafter plan, perfect and carry their criminal activities," Arinze said.

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To exemplify the rise engagement of people in difficult drugs, the NDLEA Commanding Officer said that in a batch of here calendar months 147 suspects were arrested and 82 kgs of narcotic drugs comprising Cocaine, heroine, Cannabis and psychotropic matters were seized from them.

He said that 22 drug traders have got so far been convicted within the same period, adding that the Command was worried at the charge per unit adolescents were being lured into drug dealing and consumption.

"The merchandisers of decease work these legal tender age bracket to transport out their trade while paying them a meagre N300 per day," Arinze lamented.