Would-Be Couples To Do Drug Test-Marwa

• “In the nearest future, anyone seeking employment into any government industry or ministry, parastatal or agency or seeking admission into tertiary institution or even getting married must first have to do drug test.”

Retired Brigadier General Buba Marwa, Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, has said anyone intending to get married would have to do drug test.

He stated this on Saturday at the yearly Ogidi-Ela Day cultural celebration in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State.

Marwa, who was the Guest Speaker at the occasion, also said President Muhammadu Buhari was resolute in his new thrust to purge the country of illicit drugs.

He said: “Be reminded ladies and gentlemen that President Muhammadu Buhari is resolute in his new thrust to purge the country of illicit drugs.

“And the NDLEA is doing everything possible to meet up with the presidential mandate to clean up our streets, towns and cities.

“That is why we have put in place various programmes with far reaching effects, one of which is drug integrity test.

“In the nearest future, anyone seeking employment into any government industry or ministry, parastatal or agency or seeking admission into tertiary institution or even getting married must first have to do drug test.”

Explaining further, Marwa said intending couples have always had to do one test or the other to ensure that they have a successful marriage.

He said: “If people are getting married, don’t we ask them to do HIV test?

“Don’t you ask them to bring (result) of their Genotype Test?

“Now, if I put the question: How many (parents) want their children to marry drug addicts?

“Please raise your hands.”

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There was no hand raised from his audience, so the former Military Administrator of Lagos State urged parents to protect their children and their future by saying: “No to drug.”

He added: “Let me also seize this opportunity to say how delighted I am to say that Ogidi (community) has a very successful and resourceful persons who can catalyse the efforts of keep drugs and their destructive consequences out of our country.”

He eulogised the contributions of some indigenes of Ogidi community to national development.

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