The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said the illicit activities of drug hawkers endanger the nation’s security.

The agency said drug hawkers are the major distributors and suppliers of narcotics to criminal networks, like armed bandits, insurgents, kidnappers and armed robbers.

NAFDAC’s Director General, Professor Moji Adeyeye, said this at a sensitization workshop on: The Dangers of Drug Hawking and Ripening of Fruits with Calcium Carbide, organized by the agency’s Northeast zone in Bauchi.