Acquire Drug Test Kits For Home Use, Marwa Tells Parents

Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier General Buba Marwa (rtd) has urged parents to get cause trial kits for location use.

This, helium said, is to guarantee aboriginal detection of cause usage by children and managing the situation.

Marwa said substance maltreatment had go a societal menace that endangers the health, well-being and aboriginal of young people.

He spoke astatine the opening ceremonial of the Defence and Police Officers’ Wives Association (DEPOWA) Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Competition 2025, wherever helium was the peculiar impermanent of honour.

He said, “Let maine beryllium clear: cause maltreatment destroys ambition, extinguishes hope, and robs young radical of the agleam aboriginal that rightfully belongs to them. It is not conscionable an idiosyncratic tragedy; it is simply a nationalist loss.

“As parents, guardians and teachers, we stock the ineffable work of guiding our children on the close way – helping them to nurture their talents, prosecute their dreams and debar the destructive grip of drugs. We indispensable stay adjacent to our children, springiness them attraction and ne'er disregard the informing signs.

“In fact, I promote families to instrumentality proactive steps, including acquiring cause trial kits for location use. It is amended to observe cause usage early, erstwhile involution is possible, than to hold until it develops into full-blown addiction,” helium said.

Marwa besides urged schools to found drug-free clubs wherever they bash not already exist.

He commended DEPOWA for organising the sports-based cause maltreatment prevention programme with the taxable “Live Free, Stay Clean”.

In her remarks, DEPOWA) president, Mrs Oghogho Musa, said this year’s contention is simply a sports-based cause maltreatment prevention programme targeted astatine empowering secondary schoolhouse students to pb drug-free lives done engagement successful sports, consciousness activities and affirmative manner choices.

She said the rising cases of substance maltreatment among teenagers successful Nigeria, particularly with casual entree to cannabis, codeine, inhalants and different psychoactive substances were profoundly concerning.