3 Million Bottles of Codeine Consumed Daily in Kano, Jigawa - Senate Raise Alarm on Drug Abuse

Posted by Odinaka on Tue 10th Oct, 2017 - tori.ng

The Bukola Sarak-led Nigerian Senate have uncovered a shocking statistics which revealed the rising rate of drug abuse among Nigerian youths especially in the North.

1. The need to check the rising menace of pharmaceutical drug abuse among youths especially in northern Nigeria. By Sen. Baba Kaka Bashir pic.twitter.com/OstHRkkTwj
— The Nigerian Senate (@NGRSenate) October 10, 2017

Members of the Nigerian Senate, on Tuesday, raised the alarm over the consumption of over three million bottles of codeine syrup daily in Kano and Jigawa States.

The lawmakers also revealed that the 19 northern States are not exempted from the growing menace of drug abuse, especially among young girls in tertiary institutions.

Sen. @oluremitinubu adds that women resort to intake of drugs as a result of emotional negligence from their male partners and urges..
— The Nigerian Senate (@NGRSenate) October 10, 2017

The Red Chamber said the uncontrollable abuse has destroyed mothers in homes, as they use codeine and other drugs as an escape from their abusive relationships.

Lawmakers also revealed that secondary school students consume cough syrups regularly.

Senate resolved to:
(I) Mandate it’s Joint Committee on drugs and Narctics and Health to come up with a report to the Senate on the needed..
— The Nigerian Senate (@NGRSenate) October 10, 2017

They said pharmaceutical drug abuse is threatening a generation of Northern Nigerian women including, young girls in tertiary institutions, working class ladies, married women, unemployed women, displaced women from the Boko Haram insurgency, among others.