‘Test every student for drugs,’ NANS tells FG

By Luminous Jannamike, ABUJA

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has urged the Federal Government to present compulsory cause investigating for each students successful tertiary institutions arsenic portion of a nationalist run to curb substance maltreatment among youths.

The relation said the measurement would assistance reconstruct discipline, amended world performance, and unafraid the aboriginal of Nigeria’s young population.

In a presumption insubstantial signed by Comrade Olushola Oladoja, President of NANS, the students’ assemblage called for the implementation of a government-backed Drug-Free Campus Initiative (DFCI) to combat the increasing menace of cause maltreatment successful universities, polytechnics, and colleges of acquisition crossed the country.

Oladoja warned that substance maltreatment among students had go a nationalist wellness crisis, threatening world excellence, motivation integrity, and nationalist productivity.

He said urgent corporate enactment was needed to rescue the nation’s campuses from the grip of cause addiction and reconstruct sanity to the pupil community.

“Drug maltreatment among students is nary longer an isolated concern; it has evolved into a nationalist wellness situation affecting learning, safety, and nationalist productivity,” NANS stated.

The relation identified marijuana, tramadol, codeine, and methamphetamine, commonly known arsenic ‘ice’ oregon ‘mkpurummiri’, arsenic the astir wide abused substances connected campuses, noting that their usage fuels violence, cultism, and different societal vices.

“Most cases of cultism, assault, and field unrest are traceable to substance influence. Drug maltreatment fuels aggression and motivation decay among students,” the connection read.

NANS emphasised that the combat against cause maltreatment indispensable statesman from the nation’s higher institutions, calling for practice among the Ministry of Education, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), schoolhouse authorities, and pupil unions to thrust the campaign.

The relation recommended mandatory cause investigating astatine some introduction and graduation points successful each tertiary institutions, to beryllium supervised by NDLEA officials and organization wellness units. It said the argumentation would enactment arsenic some a preventive and corrective attack to controlling cause use.

“All recently admitted students should acquisition compulsory cause investigating arsenic portion of the admittance clearance process. Similarly, each graduating pupil indispensable acquisition cause investigating earlier last clearance to guarantee they permission the instauration cleanable and responsible,” NANS proposed.

It besides called for the constitution of Drug-Free Clubs oregon committees successful each campus, to beryllium supported by NDLEA and pupil unions for consciousness creation, adjacent education, and counselling. Drug education, it added, should signifier a compulsory portion of pupil predisposition and General Studies (GST) courses.

“Students identified with substance usage should beryllium referred for rehabilitation and counselling, not stigmatised, ensuring reintegration into world life,” the radical advised.

NANS further urged sustained concern with authorities agencies and civilian nine to intensify campaigns, seminars, and sensitisation drives against cause usage among students.

Oladoja reaffirmed the association’s committedness to gathering a morally upright and disciplined pupil community, informing that Nigeria’s aboriginal workforce and enactment imaginable were astatine involvement if the situation continued unchecked.

“The imagination of a prosperous Nigeria begins with a procreation of mentally sound, morally upright, and drug-free students,” helium said.

NANS maintained that cause maltreatment connected campuses poses ‘a wide and contiguous danger’ to nationalist stableness and acquisition improvement and appealed to students to instrumentality idiosyncratic work for their health, discipline, and future.

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