“Agbo Sellers ” Are The New Distributors Of Hard Drugs – Hon. Maria Edeko

Hon. Maria Edeko, Deputy Speaker Edo State House of Assembly has guaranteed that ladies selling home grown blends, generally known as “agbo,” are going about as specialists and wholesalers of hard medications all through society.

The People groups Progressive faction (PDP) legislator addressing Esan North-East II made these charges on Tuesday during a gathering with the leader individuals from the Edo State part of the Nigerian Red Cross Society in her office in Benin City.

Edeko underscored her obligation to teaming up with the Nigerian Red Cross Society to kill drug dealing and maltreatment across the state. She featured the hindering effect of chronic drug use on young people, taking note of that unlawful substances have penetrated all aspects of society, frequently through ladies selling “agbo.”

The official said;

“Each lady in the city with a holder bearing different home grown combinations and creations is the specialist and merchant of these hard medications which are predominant.

“Today, we have weak individuals that are casualties of medications. It is another plague in light of the fact that our local area is being annihilated by drugs.

“I have had cooperative organizations with NAFDAC and NDLEA in taking the mission against substance addiction to schools, temples, and commercial centers.

“In any case, perhaps in light of the fact that, as a college teacher, I had the option to see the misfortune related with chronic drug use that no one could see, however today sedates are being sold everywhere of our general public.

“As far as I might be concerned, I would be agreeable if the NDLEA would purchase those bowls from the agbo venders peddling these medications and take them for lab examination since even around evening time around 1 a.m., you actually see these ‘agbo’ merchants showing them. Who takes agbo at 1am or 2am, in the event that it isn’t drugs they are circulating?”