Bukola Saraki has warned all agencies charged with the responsibility of enforcing drug laws to doo better to ensure effective enforcement of the law prohibiting the consumption of illicit drugs in the country.
“All drug law enforcement agencies such as NAFDAC, NDLEA and others should swing into action to ensure that the activities of such unlicensed pharmacists were checked.
“We cannot be a lawless society and in two weeks we must get feedback,” the Senate President said.
He also talked about the alarming rate of drug abuse in the country, threatened to withhold the budgetary allocation of all non-performing enforcement agencies in the country.
He assured Nigerians that the upper Chamber of the National Assembly would do everything dooable to sanitise patent medicine business in the country.
According to him, the Senate will tackle the issue with the needed commitment with a view to ensuring the success of the fight against the sales and consumption of illicit drugs across the country.
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