Southeast Governors To Punish Ndi Igbo By Seizing Their Shops

 

The southeast Governors Forum, a body of the five Governors of the five southeast states of the federation, headed by the governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has informed the residents of the Southeastern states that whoever is caught selling hard drugs will forfeit his shop to the state government.

The Southeast Governors Forum was reacting to the alarming rate at which methamphetamine also known as MKPURU MMIRI is ravaging the Igbo youths.

They further warned that offenders will subsequently be "isolated" to face the law.

In a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by the forum's leader, David Umahi, the group revealed that those who were misled into consuming the hard substance, are currently undergoing rehabilitation.

“We resolved to be very committed in our fight against hard drugs in our region especially the new one called Methamphetamine, locally known in South East as Mkpurumiri. We have decided that all shops and locations where any hard drug is sold will be forfeited to the State Government and all those promoting the trade or indulging in hard drug shall be seriously isolated to face the law.

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"Rehabilitation of those misled into hard drug is also ongoing. We urge community leaders to give secret phone calls through the special numbers offered by our Governors on security and hard drug”.

In another development, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has described the call for the legalization of Indian Hemp, other wise known as "Igbo' " in local parlance, as an unpatriotic call.

NDLEA made the disclosure in a statement published on its Facebook page. 

NDLEA noted that the Nigerian people despite Igbo not being legalized, abuse the substance more than the citizens of countries where it's legalized. In supporting its opposition to the call for Igbo to be legalized in Nigeria, NDLEA refered to the statement credited to the World Health Organization (WHO), in which WHO admitted that Igbo as being claimed by many, is medicinal but WHO however emphasized that its consumption is very harmful.