{"id":340478,"date":"2021-04-16T17:22:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=340478"},"modified":"2021-04-16T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:30:50","slug":"nigeria-now-a-transit-country-for-drug-trafficking-marwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=340478","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria now a transit country for drug trafficking &#8211; Marwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) retired, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, has said that Nigeria is traditionally being considered a transit country for drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Marwa stated this in his presentation on the national drug control master plan at the commission on Narcotic drugs conference taking place in Vienna, Austria, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this justifies the agency\u2019s offensive action against illicit drugs\u2019 production laboratories and farms.<\/p>\n<p>He said the agency took the step because of the threat drugs posed to Nigeria\u2019s national security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria is traditionally considered a transit country for drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is much bigger as different categories of drugs are produced, consumed and trafficked in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrugs trafficked include: cannabis, cocaine, heroin and tramadol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCannabis is cultivated in different parts of the country and there is evidence of methamphetamine producing laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNDLEA has destroyed thousands of hectares of cannabis cultivated land as well as 18 methamphetamine manufacturing laboratories,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Marwa further stated that a situation where the drug use prevalence in Nigeria was 14.4 per cent was unacceptable, adding that necessary steps must be taken to reverse the trend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCannabis used by 10.6 million Nigerians is the most common used drug followed by opioid with 4.6 million including tramadol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is in addition to the fact that one in every five individuals using drugs is a woman and one in five who had used drug in the past year is suffering from drug user disorder,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The NDLEA boss, however, said the agency remained committed as Nigeria\u2019s premier drug control agency with the mandate to \u201cprovide effective and efficient services to Nigerians.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) retired, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, has said that Nigeria is traditionally being considered a transit country for drug trafficking. Marwa stated this in his presentation on the national drug control master plan at the commission on Narcotic drugs conference taking place in Vienna, Austria, NAN reports. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,1527,1566],"class_list":["post-340478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-buba-marwa","tag-ndlea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/340479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}