Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central has said that the nation of hopelessness inside the economic system is chargeable for the abuse of codeine by Nigerians.
The lawmaker said this in response to an investigatory video via BBC recorded in Nigeria displaying abuse of codeine by youths and its consequences.
Titope Blog reports that the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Tuesday directed the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to ban with immediate effect in addition issuance of allows for the importation of codeine as lively pharmaceutical aspect for cough arrangements.
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Adewole stated the directive was necessary because of the gross abuse of Codeine utilization in the country.
However, reacting through his Twitter handle, Shehu Sani stated introduction of a stabilised economy and system to provide hope to the youths will hinder them from locating solace in Codeine.
He advised the federal authorities to promote the economic system, as a result, give that means to their lives.
Sani wrote, “Codeine is an opium that symbolizes our social dislocation and societal collapse.What we have is a device that has through the years ostracized and mentally deformed a technology, dispatching them to searching for solace in aphrodisiac .
“Codeine is a trouble and the larger trouble stays a corrosive socio financial order that created a state of hopelessness.We should hold to paintings difficult so that you can alternate it a good way to supply which means to the lives of our younger ones.”