The president General Maritime workers union of Nigeria, MWUN, Comrade Prince Adeyanju Adewale has affirmed that the Union
Will keep the flag of zero tolerance to drug peddling and use on it’s burner in a bid to address the drug trafficking problem in the ports.
Comrade Adewale disclosed this while making a presentation during the JOURNALNG Port Industry town hall meeting on Wednesday in Lagos.
In his presentation, he highlighted the need for a concerted effort toward drug control in the ports and country
“Indeed, drug trafficking represents a major challenge for Nigeria and port users/operators. This is true due to the rather porous nature of our security structure in our ports, jetties, and terminals.
In response to this challenge, maritime workers union of Nigeria has reached out to the National Drug Law Enforcement agency (NDLEA) with a view to jointly building one of the strongest counter-narcotics enforcement capacities for and around our ports: On which note I wish to especially thank the Buba Marwa led NDLEA for doing yore-man’s job of curtailing drug trafficking in our ports.”
I also would quickly seize this opportunity to extend our hand of fellowship to the NDLEA for a collaborative alliance that will seek to prevent the distribution and trafficking of illicit drugs through our ports.
Comrade Adewale also itemised efforts taken by the Union to curtail drug trafficking in the ports and assured that the union will not rest on its oars till the goal is achieved
“Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria has also held several press conferences to sensitize our members and the general public to the very dangerous nature of illicit drug use and its trafficking portend to society and development and to further push home this stand, MWUN has concluded a plan to undertake a public sensitization program which will draw attention to the harm of illicit drug trafficking.
The program will kick start from Lagos ports and will be taken to all ports and terminals in the nation. We expect to involve well-meaning port users and even our international affiliate-International Transport Workers Federation (ITF).
At MWUN, we will leave no stone unturned to ensure that we join hands with our security infrastructure. We affirm our conviction to keep the flag of zero tolerance to drug peddling and use on the front burner and to sustainably.
consolidate our credibility and build the Port we want, we must therefore move from a catalog of good intentions and collectively step up responses to cope with these challenges, we hope that this plan of action will redirect our efforts towards addressing the Drug peddling problem.”