Dust over Senate’s drug test for politicians

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Recently, the upper legislative chambers of the National Assembly, the Senate, was thrown into uproar following a bill seeking to create a new agency to handle narcotics and rehabilitation of drug abusers in the country.

Trouble was reported to have started when the senator representing Kano South, Sumaila Kawu, advocated that elected and appointed political officeholders be subjected to drug tests before assuming office.

Senator Kawu canvassed for the position while contributing to a debate on the general principles of the bill seeking to establish the National Institute for Drug…

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