Kwara Female Lawmaker Wants NDLEA Act Amended

A female and youngest member of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon Rukayyat Shittu, has urged the National Assembly to amend the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency’s (NDLEA) Act to include all other drugs and substances including liquor, in addition to tobacco as prohibited.

She also asked NASS to include the news and broadcast media as part of the public places where such illicit drugs and substances are prohibited.

Shittu, who represents Owode/ Onire constituency of Asa local government area is the chairperson, House Committee on Information, Youth, Sports and Tourism.

The lawmaker had sponsored a motion on the urgent need for safety regulations against content-promoting consumption of illicit drugs/substances in social media as well as the broadcast media on the floor of the state House of Assembly.

She noted that the abuse of drugs and other substances and associated crime have driven a considerable rise in the number of youths imprisoned in recent years.

“A report by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) in Nigeria indicates that 14.4% (14.3 million) of persons aged between 15 and 64years abuse drugs. Drug and substance abuse is prevalent across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones,” she said.

https://leadership.ng/kwara-female-lawmaker-wants-ndlea-act-amended/

She should initiate a bill in her state to make her state government refuse money made from taxing breweries and refund all the allocation they have enjoyed from brewery taxation. Hypocrisy should be a punishable offense.

Let's start from there.

Dumb proposal. She can ask for the law in Kwara state.

Omo,

Even liquor?

This lady no get joy ooo.

Even Bible no say make we no drink alcohol at all.

Proverbs 23:20-21 (NIV)- Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Paraman:
Dumb proposal. She can ask for the law in Kwara state.

Dumb post

bilms:


Dumb post

How can the alhaja be asking for alcohol to be banned all over Nigeria when Nigeria is not an Islamic country?

She's asking for a dumb thing that can never happen.

IgbosCriminals:
Omo,

Even liquor?

This lady no get joy ooo.

Even Bible no say make we no drink alcohol at all.

Proverbs 23:20-21 (NIV)- Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

You can drink in your house in peace and in bear parlor na.

Showcasing drug abuse on media and in public places is a sure way to lead the Youths to ruin.

Selfish consumption cannot replace reason and responsibility