The Zamfara State House of Assembly has actually condemned the influx of hard drugs and narcotic substances into pharmaceutical and patent medicine stores in the state which aids the activities of armed bandits.

Following the development, the assembly on Thursday passed a resolution calling on the Federal Government and other appropriate firms to stop the increase of the drugs, particularly pentazocine injection into the state.

The resolution was follow up to a movement moved by a member representing Maru South in the state House of Assembly and Chairman, House Committee on Religious Affairs, Hon Kabiru Hashimu Dansadau, under matters of urgent public importance to the house.

Dansadau informed the state legislators that he ended up being concerned and worried about the advancement when he attended an Islamic conference in the state in which some Ulamas contacted the attention of governments at all levels to prohibit the importation of all controlled substances and narcotics in the state.

The legislator, during the Thursday plenary, called on his colleagues to do the needful to end the threat of drug trafficking in the state and develop methods of not allowing such compounds to get into the hands of bandits in order to end insecurity in the state.

After deliberations on the matter, speaker Nasiru Mu’azu Magarya ruled that a resolution to this result is hereby made by the house getting in touch with the relevant companies of federal government at both state and federal level, especially the state task force to ensure compliance with procedures to curtail insecurity in the state to prohibit forthwith the increase of such drugs and narcotic compounds in the state.