Students union leaders should partner the Nigeria Police in fighting cultism and drug abuse.

According to Lagos State Police Command, the charge became imperative as the position of the leaders was strategic, and vital in getting solutions to security challenges in Nigeria.

Police Commissioner, Imohimi Edgal gave the charge while welcoming the Southwest leadership of National Association of Nigeria Students, Zone D, who visited him at the command Headquarters, Ikeja.

Edgal said union leaders should not work only for the benefit of students; rather, they should also work with security agencies to tackle different security challenges in the society.

He urged the students’ leaders to use their network to champion the campaign against cultism and drug abuse and take these to different students at all levels.

Edgal also called on them to give useful information about some of the students or rusticated students recruiting others into cultism or hard drugs for profiling.

Earlier, the Coordinator of NANS, Zone D in Southwest, Adekitan Luqman said they were at the command to commend Edgal for putting an end to Badoo cult group and some other crimes in Lagos.

Luqman said they had been monitoring the activities of Edgal since he assumed duty as commissioner of police, stressing that his efforts were manifested in the number of criminals arrested, including kidnap kingpin, Evans.

He commended the CP for protecting the students, assuring him of their cooperation to check vices in schools.

The General Secretary of the union in the zone, Mr Dennis Olusegun, invited the CP to come to their campuses to lecture their colleagues on drugs and cultism.