Worried by the rampant abuse of the cough syrup by youths and even married women, particularly in the Northern region, Sokoto state governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has called on the Federal government to ban the sale of syrups that have codeine as part of its constituents.

Governor Tambuwal made the appeal when he spoke at a workshop on Addiction and Prevention held at the Sultan Maccido Institute of Quran and General Studies, Sokoto yesterday March 20th.

Represented by the state Commissioner of Health, Dr. Balarabe Kakale, aGovernor Tambuwal said the cough syrups with codeinde should be banned because they are not saving lives.

The Federal Government should ban the sale of codeine in Nigeria because they are not life saving drugs.” he said

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banning the drug does not make any difference the only thing that will be done it makes it more expensive and people will want to see it as a status quo thing.
my suggestion is to educate your people more the on the harmful effects of drug abuse.
Since they can't take alcohol because of religion beliefs and if they take marijuana they are arrested because it's not legal so they do what is legal to get high which is taking codeine and tramadol which is neither against their religion or the law f the land.

If the Dan kwayas reduce. You will have destitutes with vision on the streets true. But dey are destitutes nonetheless.


Why not encourage fellow hausawa, yourself included to stop giving birth to numbers of children dey can't take care. There is a limit to the number of children you can parent into being responsible members of societies like yourselves.

So therefore, go and enforce sterility contraceptive measures. If you want to tackle codeine importation that's absurd. Cos benylin now comes as 100 and 200ml expectorant.

Address the main root of the problem, population has to reöduce for responsible members of society to exist.

If the Dan kwayas reduce. You will have destitutes with vision on the streets true. But dey are destitutes nonetheless.


Why not encourage fellow hausawa, yourself included to stop giving birth to numbers of children dey can't take care. There is a limit to the number of children you can parent into being responsible members of societies like yourselves.

So therefore, go and enforce sterility contraceptive measures. If you want to tackle codeine importation that's absurd. Cos benylin now comes as 100 and 200ml expectorant.

Address the main root of the problem, population has to reduce for responsible members of society to exist.

Since when was tambuwal governor of sokoto sef?

These senators are just rotating positions in government and emancipating themselves with wealth