The National Programme Officer of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Mrs Folusho Adelekan, says that Nigeria has been ranked highest in drug use prevalence rate in the world.
According to her, the nation accounted for 14.3 per cent as against 5.3 per cent of the entire global community.
Adelekan stated this in Abuja at a sensitisation workshop on Drug Abuse and Rape organised by Christabels Initiatives and facilitated by the National Assembly Joint Committee on Drugs and Narcotics.
Speaking further, the Officer said, available statistics showed that there were 14.4m drug users in Nigeria at 14.3 per cent prevalence rate.
However, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, who was represented by the House Leader, Hassan Doguwa, stressed that most of the drug addicts in the country lacked the required discipline and decent upbringing at the home front.
According to him, “this is the very reason curricular at the primary and secondary school levels need to be reviewed for the inclusion of subjects against drug abuse and violence against women, particularly rape.”
