On Thursday, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency issued a warning about young people in Borno State substituting fermented human urine—which has been kept for ten days—for hard drugs.
This was revealed in a statement made in Maiduguri by Iliyasu Mani, the NDLEA’s Commander of Narcotics in Borno State.
He claimed that young people frequently abused psychoactive chemicals and mentioned other strange stuff they took, like camel urine, lizard excrement, gin-soaked Lipton, and mentholated spirit blended with soft beverages.
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He claimed that in their attempt to become drunk, they also breathe in gutter debris and toilet vapors.
Mani declared, “Let me say this clearly: these new psychoactive chemicals that are being abused a lot these days include Cannabis Sativa, skunk, and cough syrup.
codeine; ice, rubber solution, glue, toilet smells, Rohypnol, Tramadol, Diazepam, Pentazocine, and lizard dung.
“Others include camel urine, mentholated spirit in soft drinks, gin-soaked Lipton’s, 10-day-old human urine, and so forth.”
“Unfortunately, the issue of substance abuse is even getting challenging, especially with the involvement of young teens in the abuse of new psychoactive substances, especially women,” Mani remarked, adding that although the NDLEA leadership, under his watch, has fought a hard war against drug addiction.
The NDLEA commander stated, “Despite all of this, we shouldn’t give up as the agency has increased its efforts toward prevention approach by establishing a redesigned counseling/rehab center within the premises of Borno State Command.
Mani claimed that in order to better serve everyone, his command had also set up drop-in centers for drug abuse research at all postsecondary institutions.
He said that while he was in charge, the command had apprehended 863 people and seized 4.5 tonnes of illegal materials.
53 of the people who had been arrested, he said, had been found guilty, and 736 were receiving counseling.
In 2018, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime carried out a household survey, which was subsequently revisited in 2021 and 2022. The survey found that 14.3% of Nigerians suffered from substance misuse, three times more than the global average of 5.6%.
According to the poll, the prevalence of illicit drugs is estimated to be 13.6% in the North-East, 12% in the North-West, and 10% in the North-Central region.