NURTW charges NDLEA on sensitisation against drug abuse in Ondo

The Ondo State National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has challenged the state government and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with organising additional drug addiction awareness campaigns.

Mr Raymond Adeyemi, the State Coordinator of NURTW, disclosed this on Wednesday at a drug misuse sensitization event in Akure organised by the Ondo State Ministry of Health in partnership with the NDLEA.

Adeyemi regarded the programme as illuminating and capable of discouraging hard drug users from engaging in the practise.

He went on to suggest that the sensitization would go a long way and that it should be extended throughout the federation.

He vowed to persuade members to support the sensitization’s goals and objectives.

“I applaud the sensitization; it has informed us and enabled us to know more about dangers in the wrong use of drugs”.

You are doing an excellent job, and I have a great confident that the participants will enlighten those who are not there. ” Please do not stop here; distribute it across the federation. It should not be restricted to this particular event.

“We will notify them that they must comply,” he said.

Earlier, Dr. Sunday Sajo, the event’s professor, said that many traffic accidents in Nigeria are caused by the consumption of the improper medicines.

Sajo, a mental specialist, stated that drug usage in the country must be handled quickly and persistently.
He went on to say that drug-related car accidents kill more people in the country than HIV.

Drug addicts, he claims, are more violent and prone to different ailments.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the team had previously sensitised several pregnant women at the Arakale Health Centre in Akure.

Sajo emphasised at the health centre that pregnant women should exercise caution when it comes to drug usage, emphasising that they should only take medications recommended by medical staff.
He cautioned the ladies against self-medication and the use of heavy drugs, claiming that anything they did would have an impact on their children.