NSCDC seeks NDLEA support to curb hard drug intake

NSCDC seeks NDLEA support to curb hard drug intake

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara Command, has urged the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to intensify efforts in curbing hard drug intake in the country.

The NSCDC State Commandant, Mr Makinde Ayinla, said this in Ilorin on Friday while receiving the new NDLEA State Commander, Mr Peter Odaudu.

Ayinla said that efforts to reduce drug intake were necessary in order to curb crime.

He said that the geometric rise in the crime rate in the country had been linked to excessive intake of hard drugs by criminals.

According to him, this in turn makes the criminals reckless and wayward.

He, however, praised the efforts of NDLEA to rid the country of drug abuse and other illegal means of using drugs, noting that the effect of drugs could not be overemphasized.

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Ayinla also decried the high rate of insecurity in the country.

“When we talk about the rise in crime rate in the country, there is no way we will not mention the abuse of hard drugs by these criminal elements which also causes an increase in rape,” he said.

The commandant, however, said that NSCDC was always ready to further improve the working relationship with the NDLEA to check the increase in the use of hard drugs in society.

Earlier in his address, Odaudu decried the abuse of hard drugs by the security operatives in the country, all in the name of being gallant and successful.

The NDLEA commander said that the agency would sensitise the NSCDC officers and men on the danger of drug abuse.

He said that the two Federal Government’s paramilitary agencies had been enjoying result-oriented working relationships and promised to sustain the good relationship.