Farida Waziri, former chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has called on the Federal Government to include drug tests in the screening process for people nominated for national honours.
Waziri was inaugurated as a member of the national honours award committee, on Thursday, in Abuja.
The committee members are to screen and select eminent Nigerians and friends of Nigeria, who have contributed to the development of Nigeria.
While speaking with NAN on Friday, the former EFCC boss, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for restoring honour to the selection process “by picking men and women of impeccable character to handle the national assignment”.
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She said: “As a member of this noble national honours award committee, I will be calling for use of drug integrity test as part of the screening process for those to be considered for the honours award,”
“That way, we will be extending deterrence frontiers of the drug war, because it has to cover all age brackets and social strata.”
She further called on Nigerians to be more patriotic, as the security challenges the country is facing “would make anybody conclude that another hostile nation has invaded Nigeria”.
“It is shocking that majority of those behind these problems are Nigerians, terrorising their fellow Nigerians,”
“This must stop and we all must learn to be patriotic in the interest of the nation.”
