President of the National Council of Muslim Youth Organisations (NACOMYO), Malam Sani Suleiman Maigoro, has advocated for deliberate government policies to address early warning areas where drug peddlers can be detected and apprehended.
Malam Maigoro made the remark on Sunday in Jos at one-day inter-religious dialogue programme organised by NACOMYO in collaboration with King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Inter-cultural Dialogue (KAICIID) with the theme: Inter-religious dialogue on youth violence and drug abuse.
He said the major challenge facing the country is rooted on drug abuse and its addiction, adding that in Jos, Plateau state, Christian and Muslim youth had engaged themselves into criminal syndicate.
He called on leaders of the two religions to agree on how to fish out those selling drugs and causing civil unrest in Jos local government area of Plateau state.
The programme featured discussions by religious and community leaders, representatives of Operation Safe Haven, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) among others.
A communiqué was being expected from the dialogue programme as at the time of filing this report.