{"id":8700,"date":"2013-08-20T15:44:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/ndlea-arrests-185-suspects-seizes-1-329-kg-of-hard-drugs-in-plateau-commander\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T15:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:44:57","slug":"ndlea-arrests-185-suspects-seizes-1-329-kg-of-hard-drugs-in-plateau-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/ndlea-arrests-185-suspects-seizes-1-329-kg-of-hard-drugs-in-plateau-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA arrests 185 suspects, seizes 1.329 kg of hard drugs in Plateau \u2013 Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Plateau said on Tuesday that it arrested 185 suspects and seized 1.329 kilogrammes of hard drugs between January and July.<\/p>\n

The Commander of the agency in the state, Dr Ngozi Madubuike, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos\u00a0that out of\u00a0 174 of the suspects were males.<\/p>\n

She added that 74 men and three women were convicted of various drug offences.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom January till date, 185 suspects have been arrested for drug offences, among whom male suspects were 174 and females 11.<\/p>\n

“Between January and July this year, we already have 77 convicts; males, 74 and females three.\u201d<\/p>\n

She attributed the rise in the use of drugs in Plateau to various factors including\u00a0peer group pressure, family disintegration, unemployment, cold weather and the culture of\u00a0the people\u00a0which permitted\u00a0drinking at\u00a0an early age.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne major problem here we have noticed is that the culture of the people; the culture permits the use of alcoholic substances, especially the locally brewed alcoholic substances which\u00a0are a gate way\u00a0drug.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a gate way drug because they start with them and when they do not have the same feeling that they used to have, they want something higher and their body starts tolerating the harder drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cOther factors responsible are peer pressure, as the young people want to be accepted by their friends so they indulge in the act of using illicit drugs, parental disintegration because most of them have family problems, then unemployment.”<\/p>\n

Madubuike said that the NDLEA rehabilitation centre had 85 patients from January till July, and 45 of the patients had been rehabilitated and discharged.<\/p>\n

She said\u00a0that 14 were referred to psychiatric hospitals because they manifested psychotic symptoms.<\/p>\n

She called on the people whose wards\u00a0were drug addicts to avail them of the services of rehabilitation centres.<\/p>\n

She also appealed to the public to cooperate with the agency by providing it with useful information that would assist in stopping drug trafficking and abuse.<\/p>\n

The commander said\u00a0the agency would not relent in its effort to rid the society of illicit drugs.<\/p>\n

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