More cultivation of cannabis than cash crops in Nigeria

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Ruona Agbroko

Thursday 13 Aug 2009

Nigeria has recorded a "negative shift from food and cash crops such as cocoa, groundnut, rubber, cassava, maize to cannabis cultivation," the chairperson of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ahmadu Giade, said on Thursday at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Jos, Plateau State.

A statement made available to NEXT by Ofoyeju Mitchell, a spokesperson for the agency, disclosed that Mr. Giade stated this in a paper titled ‘the role of the Para-Military Services in good governance towards the attainment of vision 2020 and the Seven Point Agenda'.

Mr. Giade said that cannabis cultivation, trafficking and abuse remains "a major threat to the actualisation of vision 20-2020 and the Seven-point Agenda."

The agency's chairperson, who was represented by the it's director-general, Lanre Ipinmisho, cited the recent destruction of cannabis plantations nationwide, particularly in the South Western region.

Urging security agencies to be "proactive and safety conscious in their primary role of providing security", Mr. Giade said the effects of cannabis cultivation were sadly being felt by all Nigerians.

He listed such negative effect to include "political instability, drug addiction, money laundering, health problems, criminality and untimely death."

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