This was contained in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Emma Eneukwu.
`` In the past few days, Nigerian media has been awash with the gory and heartbreaking story of the murder of Cynthia Osokogu by two young men whom she met on Facebook.
`` The two culprits, Okwuoma Nwabufo, Ezekiel Odera, have confessed to the crime when the police brought them before journalists at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja.
`` They have also given account of how they lured Cynthia from her Nasarawa State base and subsequently killed her in a hotel in Festac Town, Lagos State.
It stated that long before now, they have revealed to have drugged other female victims with Rohypnol a prescription drug used in the short-term treatment of insomnia.
It also said they confessed to have bought the drugs over the counter from pharmacists, which was also injected into Cynthia’s drink before they killed her.
`` Our health care system is such that many medications that should rightly come under prescription drugs are sold in the open market as over-the-counter (OTC) drugs.
`` The police arrested the pharmacist that sold the drug to Cynthia’s killers, but that is not enough to stop future purchase and use of such dangerous drugs,” it stated
It urged the government to set up a water-tight regulatory framework in the drug administration environment to curb irresponsible dispensing of such calibre of drugs in future.
It stated,” it is high time the Federal Government and the relevant agencies embarked on a vigorous national youth orientation on the dangers of social media. ”
It also urged the National Assembly to craft enabling laws to forestall cyber crime and prescription drug misused for the betterment of the country.
`` We in ANPP commiserate with the family of the deceased, and also call on the Federal Government to engage the youth in order to avoid future occurrence.
It also urged the Federal Government to tackle the menace on time as the youth could be manipulated into becoming political thugs, suicide bombers, armed robbers and ritual killers.
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