NDLEA, NGO sensitise Lagos youth on dangers of drug abuse
A non-governmental organisation (NGO), Meljenstin Early life Empowerment Initiative, in collaboration with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has sensitised youths in opposition to drug abuse finally of an occasion in Festac City, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos.
Speaking on the occasion titled “Express No to Drug Abuse Early life Convention”, the NDLEA Neutral Commander for Festac, Mr Abdul Maiyaki, highlighted the significance of sustained public awareness and reinforced drug control efforts to tackle the growing enviornment of drug addiction.
Maiyaki published: “All around the enviornment, primarily primarily based on the United Nations, 280 million of us exercise drugs. Out of that, 15 million are in Nigeria. Out of these, fortunately, six million need abet. That you must also gain the topic, but because you don’t need abet, we can’t power you. We need to agree to the real fact that I if truth be told gain a enviornment and I need abet, and then we can secure it from there.”
In her remarks, the founder and president of Meljenstin Early life Empowerment Initiative, Mrs Chibuzo Patrick Osigwe, impressed youths to remain centered and no longer let their backgrounds limit their attainable. “For the sake of what strive to be the next day to come, for the sake of you that must be what God has destined you to be… the only real component it shall be foremost to perform is preserve centered and mediate to your self. It is best to no longer enable your background to place your aid on the bottom,” she acknowledged.
A pharmacist, Sylvester Emeka Ugbala, additionally addressed the hazards of drug abuse, emphasising its feature in inflicting youths to assign heart-broken choices below ogle stress. “We need to no longer sugarcoat it, drug abuse is a if truth be told harmful component. Disaster and ogle stress are one of the indispensable components that assign you assign the nasty determination,” he said.
The Assistant Commander of Narcotics, Afenfia Imoke, outlined that the NDLEA launched the Battle Against Drug Abuse (WADA) initiative below the administration of light President Muhammadu Buhari to strive in opposition to drug addiction. She additionally warned youths in opposition to cultivating cannabis, noting that such efforts would outcome in failure.
“By the purpose you harvest your product, NDLEA officers will arrest you, and the farm shall be burnt down. All your effort for the yr is long previous. Why no longer arrive to an thought that in region of cultivating this reduce that that you just must no longer sell in the birth market, it is advisable to always domesticate a cash reduce,” Imoke instructed.
College students in attendance shared their takeaways from the occasion. Maya Obeye from Fountain School acknowledged: “I attended this occasion to be taught to relate no to drug abuse because drug addiction has destroyed many lives. I am right here on the present time to be taught to connect lives and express no to drug abuse from stress groups.”
Onanaku Onyinye from Kabe School added: “I am right here on the present time to relate no to drug abuse and addiction and additionally be taught no longer to be influenced by it. More importantly, I am right here to educate of us about what I if truth be told gain learnt on the present time.”
