Bauchi — Wife of the Bauchi State Governor, Hauwa Yuguda has said the use of illicit drugs and other narcotics help to create criminality in the society just as she said that these drugs have aided youth to commit crimes ranging from political thuggery, armed robbery, hired assassination, arson, rape, stealing and murder.

Yuguda who was speaking recently at a sensitization workshop for patent medicine dealers in Bauchi organized by the Bauchi State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in conjunction with her NGO, Challenge Your Disability Initiative (CYDI), stated that the fight against illicit drug required a collective effort.

She told the patent medicine dealers that some of them who sell drugs like Codeine, D5, Exol5, Raphnol, Depsone, Optalidon to the youths are actually destroying them and the future of the society saying,, "these drugs have done damage to them". The governor's wife, however, appealed to the patent medicine dealers to join her in the crusade against illicit sale of unprescribed drugs to the public because according to her some of the action of the patent medicine dealers is threatening the future of the youth in the state.

She advised patent medicine dealers to do away with those illicit drugs in their shop and destroy them, adding that in law; they are not allowed to sell such drugs to the public.

Also speaking, the State Commandant NDLEA, Sule Momodu, reiterated the determination of his agency to wage drug war against illicit drug. He however solicited for cooperation of patent medicine dealers to insist on doctor's prescription before selling the drug them.

the effect of the drug could not be under estimated. In his speech, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Emmanuel Onochie, pledged the cooperation of National Association of patent medicine dealers to the sensitization effort of the agency.

Onochie assured the agency that his association would cooperate with them to rid the society and shops of such dangerous drugs that negatively affect the youth in the society.