The Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has destroyed over four tons of illicit drugs in Taraba State.
The agency also stressed that one out of four drug users in the State is a woman.
The NDLEA Chairman, Buba Marwa disclosed this on Friday in Jalingo, during the destruction of the second phases of various illicit drugs.
Marwa said over four tons of illicit drugs have been earmarked for destruction in the State by the agency.
Marwa, who was represented by the Zonal Commander Zone B Yola, Alhaji Idris Bello, urged the public to endeavour to collaborate with the agency to reduce the menace of illicit drugs in the state and the country at large to the barest minimum.
The NDLEA boss said the United Nations Office on Drugs Control (UNODC) in its 2018 survey stated that Nigeria had 14.3 drug users and Taraba State at the time had 213,000 drug users representing 13 per cent of its population.
Identifying the geographic location of the State as one of the major challenge hindering the agency from reaching out to major drug dealers, beckoned at all stakeholders to key into the anti-drug campaign.
Drugs listed by him to have been destroyed are 3,158.701 kilograms of cannabis sativa and 900.667 kilograms of psychotropic substances.
Marwa also listed some of the trending psychotropic substances to includes Tramadol, Pentazocine injection, Codeine, Rophynol Diazepam and other non conventional drugs which he Christened ‘Akuskura’ have just been discovered.