Plateau State Police Command said yesterday that cultism has become another growing menace in the state that must be checked as soon as possible. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Patrick Edung, who made this observation, also decried the high level of illicit drug use  among youth, stressing that cultism was a growing danger in the state.

Edung bared his mind during the monthly Peace Architecture Dialogue (PAD), security meeting organised by Search For Common Ground and funded by the European Union (EU). He said the command has in custody a worrisome number of youths as a result of drug induced crimes ranging from rape, cultism and armed robbery.

The ACP described unemployment as a factor stimulating youths into social vices and called on the government to provide job opportunities for the teeming youths.

The guest speaker, Salis Abdulsalam, who is also the founder of Face of Peace Global, said the use of illicit drugs among youths in the state was a major factor facilitating the breach of peace.
Abdulsalam noted that family values which were supposed to be inculcated in the youth by parents and guardians, have lost their place in the society.

The meeting had in attendance the Chief of Staff to the Commander, Operation Safe Heaven, Brigadier-General Abdulsalam Ibrahim, representative of the state’s security task force, Operation Rainbow, Ayuba Gokum and representative of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Elizabeth Gowon.

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Cultism and drug abuse on the rise in Plateau – Police