January 20, (THEWILL) – The Drug Integrity Check, a coverage aimed on the early detection of illicit drug use and the early remedy of drug dependence, is step by step being accepted as a dependable software for mitigating the challenges posed by drug abuse within the nation.
In a current interview with the Nigerian Tribune newspaper, the Chairman/ Chief Government Officer of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA), Brigadier- Basic Mohammed Buba Marwa (Retd), mentioned that some tertiary establishments and authorities institutions have adopted the coverage and included it into their administrative processes. Within the faculties, he famous, the check is among the necessities for admission of latest college students.
Requested when the NDLEA would begin drug exams for politicians in search of political workplace, Marwa mentioned, “This coverage shouldn’t be restricted to politicians or any specific social class. It’s for everybody—politicians, civil servants, army personnel, college students, and so forth.
“Apparently, some states have additionally adopted it as a prerequisite for anybody aspiring to any political place and step by step that’s gaining grounds with employers additionally requesting for identical.
“Ultimately, as society turns into extra conscious of the necessity to scale back drug abuse to the barest minimal, the coverage will achieve widespread acceptance. That’s the reason we’re working to eradicate adverse social constructs about illicit drug use, together with enabling components resembling discrimination and stigmatisation, which may deter individuals from in search of remedy.”
In line with the previous Army Administrator of Lagos State, the Drug Integrity Check makes it simpler for people to entry remedy within the nick of time, serving to to save lots of their future. Nevertheless, it appears that evidently the concept of constructing politicians in search of political workplace to take the check has struck a delicate nerve.
It’s no secret that almost all Nigerians don’t belief the typical politician and they’re almost definitely to deal with the latter with disdain than respect. The reason being not farfetched. To the poor and fewer privileged, politicians are members of the oppressive ruling class which have saved them in perpetual poverty and denied them their proper to the nice life.
Given the prevailing hardship within the nation, there’s the tendency among the many poor to conclude that politicians are their actual enemies, those who mismanage the nation’s financial system, manipulate its sources to their sole benefit and make dwelling on this a part of the world an enormous burden.
After all, the sins of members of the political class don’t finish there. Probably the most painful factor is that each time the aggrieved lots wait for his or her flip to battle again with their votes throughout election durations, that’s when politicians resort to electoral malpractices to make sure the votes don’t depend.
When the ‘sons of perdition’ ultimately make their technique to the corridors of energy for the umpteenth time, it’s to proceed the same old cycle of mismanagement, wastefulness and corruption.
The reality is that the typical citizen of this nation would joyfully welcome any means by which each and every politician, significantly those in search of political workplace, may be medically examined to find out the state of their psychological well being.
We want the Federal Authorities to make it necessary for the remainder of the 36 states to comply with the instance of the few which have included the Drug Integrity Check into their administrative processes. Henceforth, job seekers should take the check to qualify for employment. That’s the proper technique to go, particularly in a rustic dealing with a troublesome problem with drug abuse.
