 The newly deployed commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, inquires state Mohammed Ibrahim has assumed duty with an assurance to combat illicit drug supply to the state. Ibrahim noted that the commander has intensified efforts in counseling sensitization and rehabilitation. The command has been doing well and they are doing well in terms of drug demand reduction, in terms of sensitization and counseling and rehabilitation. The only thing I'm going to do is to increase the tempo in terms of cutting the supply. What are we going to be doing differently is to enforce on patrolling the all the entries into paracities. We are going to increase our surveillance activities. We are going to do our work based on intelligent leads investigation, intelligent leads operations, strictly abiding by the SOP of the agency. He also maintained that the agency in the state will be engaging community leaders, traditional rulers and opinion leaders and task them on their roles at the grassroots. We are going to take the demand reduction aspect of our job to the grassroots. We are going to be engaging the community leaders, the traditional rulers, the opinion leaders. We are going to be tasking them on their role in terms of drug demand reduction. Recently, there has been a new psychoactive substances that is trending now, the nitrogen oxide. So the challenge negative has given all the commander of the tasking order that we clamp down on wherever the sales, the consumption and whatever it is when it talks in terms of nitrogen oxide. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.