Kano state government has confiscated illegal drugs worth about N300 million recently in its effort to check the menace of prohibited drugs and other substances abuse among the youths of the state.
Disclosing this while presenting N50, 000 cheques to each of the 200 beneficiaries of Lafiya Jari Micro-credit scheme, during the graduation ceremony of the students at School of Hygiene, Kano, Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso said that government has taken decisive measures to curtail the lingering problem eating deep into the fabric of the society.
He maintained that, the current government decision to shutdown the Sabon Gari drugs market is in good faith taking into considering the danger behind the uncontrolled hawking of drugs.
“We want to control the drug business in Kano that is why we decided to shutdown Sabon gari drugs market because its unhealthy to allow people to trade in medicines like any other common commodity”, Kwankwaso said.
He pointed out that the state government is now working with many other international donors to improve the heathcare delivery system in the state, explaining that now there are more than 100 containers full of various medical facilities coming to Kano, donated by the such international donors.
Governor Kwankwaso explained that state government has selected general hospitals of some local governments to be fully equipped stressing that already, Gwarzo General hospital has been selected to start with.