Nigeria, Aug. 28 -- Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has said the premises of the state's Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Rumuigbo, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, were previously used as a centre for drug trafficking.

Mr Fubara disclosed on Thursday while commissioning the newly upgraded neuropsychiatric hospital alongside a new General Hospital in Rumuigbo.

His remarks were contained in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday by his spokesperson, Onwuka Nzeshi.

According to Mr Fubara, the neuropsychiatric hospital had become a location where drugs were supplied to inmates undergoing rehabilitation.

These premises were a drug trafficking centre. We keep people in the Rehabilitation Centre, but some of our people innocentl...