The Nigeria Governors Spouses Forum, has called on the Federal and State Governments to declare state of emergency on substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking in Nigeria with a view to mobilising resources to tackling the pandemic.

The call was one of the resolutions in a communique signed by Chairperson of the Forum and First Lady of Kwara state, Ambassador Olufolake Abdulrasaq issued today at the end of a two-day Drug Prevention Treatment and Care, DPTC, training organized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA for wives of state governors in Abuja.

According to a statement by the NDLEA Spokesman Femi Babafemi other resolutions in the communique include the need to foster good parenting through parents teachers associations, community outreach programmes and to support the NDLEA Drug Integrity Testing Policy.