The Kano state chapter of Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, says practitioners intending to join the association would henceforth undergo drug tests to ascertain their mental well-being in the face of growing drug abuse in the country. The state chairman of the NBA, Mohammed Inuwa Musa made this known on Saturday during a programme tagged: "Kano State NBA Walk Against Drug Abuse”, as part of activities marking the 2018 NBA Kano Law Week.
The members of the Association who walked from their office located at Farm Centre, to the Emir of Kano’s palace, said the walk was to demonstrate their anger against drug abuse in the state and country at large.
Mohammed said Kano NBA would liaise with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to draw up a plan on how to pursue the implementation of the drug tests on prospective applicants. He commended the Federal Government on the recent ban on the importation and production of codeine and assured of the Association's support for the decision.
“The worrisome menace of increase in the abuse of hard drugs is sad. Kano NBA is in support of the decision by the Federal Government to ban the importation of codeine into the country.
“Henceforth, legal practitioners who indicate their intentions to be admitted into NBA Kano will undergo urine and blood tests to ascertain if they are free from the abuse of banned substances,” he said.
