The Executive Coordinator of Rural and Urban Aid For Youth Development Initiative, a non-governmental organization Mr Femi Oyebode has commend the brilliant and courageous effort of the Chairman Chief Executive Officer of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA) Gen Buba Maruwa (rtd) towards drug abuse in Nigeria.
Oyebode stated this during the domestication of the National Drug Control Master Plan and the year 2022 War Against Drug Abuse and Violent Crime Campaign across the three senatorial districts of Ekiti, lauded NDLEA and other agencies for partnering with Rural and Urban Aid for Youth Development Initiative in waging war against drug abuse among our youths .
The coordinator who noted that drug and crime is a siamese twin, added that his organization is out to among other things to sensitise the youths to avoid drug abuse , illicit drug consumption, cultivation and trafficking.
He called on all stakeholders to join hands with his NGO to address the dreaded drug abuse that has become a cancer which had eaten deep into the moral fabric of our youths in the country as no international, national or local government can do this alone.
He emphasized the need for rehabilitation and reintegration of drug dependent person and peacefully resolving conflict among youths in Nigeria.
Oyebode commended the Ekiti State Governor Dr John Kayode ,Emir of Ilorin Alhaji Dr Ibrahim Sulu- Gambari and other international agencies for” their support towards achieving the objectives and goals of the organization”.