100 Students Caught As UNILAG Begins Testing Students For Hard Drugs

In a bid to check drug abuse on campus, the
University of Lagos has provided a drug test kit
in its medical centre to examine students
suspected to be on hard drugs.
Prof. Rahaman Bello, outgoing Vice-Chancellor of
the institution, confirmed this at a forum with
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
Bello said that the initiative was necessary
because drug abuse was on the increase in the
nation's tertiary institutions.
"Drug abuse is a major problem for every
institution, particularly, those in the cities. We
have gone ahead in the University of Lagos to
address it.
"With the test kit, anyone who is suspected, his
or her urine or blood depending on what we
want to do, is collected for test.
"The thing about drug is that when you take it,
it will be in your blood for a long time, so you
cannot say , I did not use it once the test kit
detects it.
"Before, we start using the test kit, everyone we
picked denied using drug since we could not find
any evidence," he said.