The Executive Chairman of Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Muazu Maifata, has disclosed that he was partnering with security agencies in the state to apprehend youths who engage in drug abuse.
Maifata, who is also the State Chairman of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON, made the disclosure while speaking with Journalists on Sunday in Lafia, the state capital.
He lamented that most youths of the LGA were no longer focused as expected by their parents and guardians because of their consistent abuse of drugs which was why he sort the assistance of security agencies to address the menace.
He said: “Because we want our youths to be focused on their education and have a means of livelihood, we are collaborating actively with security agencies in Lafia LGA which is the state capital to ensure that the intake of drugs among the teeming youths is drastically reduced if not totally eradicated.
On the issue of Internally Displaced Persons still in camps in some parts of the LGA after a recent crisis involving herders and Tiv farmers, he promised that the IDPs would be relocated back to their ancestral homes before the year’s farming season.
“We are doing our best to address the issues of the IDPs and ensure that they return to their homes before the farming season. I have directed the overseer of Lafia East Development Area to go and examine the situation there with a view to providing a lasting solution to the challenges that they are facing”, he added.
