President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday appointed his wife, Aisha, as a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Drug Abuse.
The Committee has the former Military Administration of Lagos, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, retd, as its chairman.
Buhari also inaugurated the Ministerial Steering Committee, which is headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha.
Inaugurating the two committees at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the President called for collective action to help those enslaved by drugs build a new life.
He lamented that the challenges associated with drug abuse had grown to become a major public health problem in Nigeria.
According to him, “This is a situation of emergency and we must face and address it as such.”
Buhari noted that in many schools, adolescents experience mental health issues, either temporarily or for a long period of time, while some become insane, cannot remain in schools and eventually drop out.
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