War on Drug Abuse: Marwa urges families to acquire drug test kits

… Says aboriginal involution cardinal to protecting children

By Kingsley Omonobi

The Chairman and Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa (Rtd), has urged families to get cause trial kits for location usage arsenic portion of preventive efforts against substance maltreatment among young people.

Speaking astatine the Defence and Police Officers’ Wives Association (DEPOWA) Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Competition successful Abuja, Marwa stressed that aboriginal detection was important to preventing addiction.

“Drug maltreatment 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. “We indispensable stay adjacent to our children, springiness them attention, and ne'er disregard the informing signs.”

Marwa commended DEPOWA for utilizing sports arsenic a level for sensitization nether the taxable “Live Free, Stay Clean.” He encouraged schools to acceptable up drug-free clubs, assuring that the NDLEA was acceptable to enactment them successful creating consciousness and prevention programmes.

In her remarks, DEPOWA President, Mrs. Oghogho Gwabin Musa, said the inaugural was designed to empower secondary schoolhouse students to pb drug-free lives done engagement, awareness, and affirmative adjacent influence.

She noted that the four-week programme, which volition culminate connected October 16, 2025, aims to prolong consciousness of substance maltreatment and its dangers, particularly among adolescents susceptible to adjacent unit and misinformation.

Mrs. Musa acknowledged the enactment of partners, including the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and commended the NDLEA for its rehabilitation and sensitization initiatives nationwide.

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