 The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to declare state of emergency in a drug sector so as to tackle drug sores in the country. It also urged the federal government to develop preventive strategies in the era of demographic campaign against drug abuse and its consequence and to redirect the National Orientation Agency to devise an enlightenment campaign programme against drug abuse in Nigeria. The motion was raised by Honourable Francis Atago from Benwood State on the matter of urgent national importance during the House plenary. Atago urged the federal government to increase budgetary allocation to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The government at all levels and particularly the federal government has continued to pay lip service to the war against illicit drug abuse as the NDLA, the agency, statutory set up to wage war against the narcotic drug abuse remains underfunded, understaffed and ill-equipped. It will interest you to know that even as we speak today, many of the arms and ammunition used to pursue this war, especially in the hinterland, aside ledos and abuja, many of the arms were arms used during the Nigerian Civil War. And this cannot be tolerated because why the traffickers and drug barons have sophisticated arms, the NDLA stayed part two with what they call Shakabula arms and ammunition. It is better than for governments at all levels, the organised private sector and the family units work closely to combat this menace. For if we fail to destroy narcotic drug abuse, narcotic drug abuse will destroy us. 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.