‘Acquire Drug Test Kits For Home Use’, NDLEA Boss Tasks Parents

The 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.

Marwa said this was successful bid to guarantee aboriginal detection of cause usage by children and managing the situation.

The NDLEA brag noted that substance maltreatment has go a societal menace that endangers the health, wellbeing, and aboriginal of young people.

Brig.-Gen. Marwa (rtd) stated this astatine the opening ceremonial of the Defence and Police Officers’ Wives Association (DEPOWA) Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Competition 2025, wherever helium was peculiar impermanent of honour.

“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,” helium said.

He continued, “As parents, guardians, and teachers, we stock the ineffable work of guiding our children on the close path—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 attention, 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”.

The anti-narcotic agency’s main enforcement besides urged schools to found drug-free clubs wherever they presently bash not already exist.

“The NDLEA stands acceptable to enactment you successful this effort, arsenic portion of our shared work to physique a healthier and safer nation,” helium assured.

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

“It speaks straight to the request for aboriginal sensitisation, and I commend DEPOWA for this visionary initiative. Sports, aft all, should stay a noble pursuit—one that rewards discipline, hard work, and integrity, not shortcuts rooted successful abuse, including performance-enhancing drugs,” helium added.

He further urged the students to usage sports arsenic a steadfast outlet to physique resilience, and enactment drug-free.

Earlier successful her remarks, the President, Defence and Police Officers’ Wives Association (DEPOWA), Mrs Oghogho Musa, said this year’s contention was 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.

According to her, 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.

She said, “Peer pressure, misinformation, and socio-economic pressures often pb our younker into experimenting with drugs. As a society, we person a work to protect, guide, and enactment them to navigate adolescence safely and successful bully health”.

Mrs Musa stressed that sports play a captious relation successful shaping young lives. “Through sports, our youths larn teamwork, leadership, resilience, perseverance, and self-discipline. These qualities assistance them header with challenges, negociate emotions, and marque informed choices, portion besides providing a steadfast outlet for accent and anxiety.

“As we empower them done sports, we indispensable besides amended them astir the dangers of substance abuse”.