Francis Sardauna in Katsina
The First Lady of Katsina State, Dr. Hadiza Bello Masari, yesterday raised the alarm over the rising cases of drug abuse among youths and married women in Nigeria, calling for the declaration of state of emergency on the menace.
Mrs. Masari, therefore, called on the federal government to build drug abuse detoxification centres as part of strategies to check the trend and provide services for those affected already.
She said the implication of drug abuse on individual, family and the society is quite enormous, describing the trend as a threat to nation building.
Addressing youths under the aegis of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) drawn from 14 states who visited her in Katsina, the governor’s wife said the gory state of substance abuse has called for the declaration of a state of emergency.
According to her, findings show that many Nigerian youths, including married women,…
