Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Akwa Ibom State Command, have seized a total of 165 kilograms of hard drugs from 105 youths in four months.
This was disclosed on Monday by the State Commander, Obot Bassey.
Bassey decried the alarming rate of youths involvement in illicit drugs business, heinous crimes such as rape, banditry, armed robbery, kidnapping as well as cultism among secondary school children in the state.
She advised the state government to introduce drug testing in secondary schools as it will detect students whose violent behavior were influenced by the abuse of hard drugs.
Bassey also disclosed that a 26 year-old male was arrested with 1.2031kg of Cocaine worth N25 million in the state, the highest seizure in Akwa Ibom in 18 years.
She said, “I resumed here four months ago, and in four months, the NDLEA, Akwa Ibom State Command has seized 165kilogrammes of hard drugs from 105 youths. It could be shocking and very alarming to see that last week, August 6 to be precise, a 26-year-old male was arrested with 1.2031kg of Cocaine worth N25 million, the highest seizure in Akwa Ibom state in 18 years.’’
