It is socially impertinent how the vulnerable youths in the Potiskum Local Government Area have succumbed to excessive drug abuse and addiction without realizing how dangerous it could be for their lives, mental health, and what they uphold shortly.
The increase in drug abuse has become a subject matter that needs actual consideration, and drastic action should be taken to overcome its rapid growth among youths. Potiskum Local Government Area of Yobe State is known as the epicenter of carrying out various businesses and educational matters. It has been the giant pillar of Yobe State in terms of population and contributions to con-constant revenue generation and youth engagement towards persuading education for the future.
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But on the other hand, the locality is enveloped with thousands of dumped youths who have chosen drug abuse and are helplessly living around some areas of the town. They hardly work for themselves, and even if they did, the credit is artfully exhausted on hard drugs, thereby keeping them unconscious and capable of being involved in any act of immorality.
However, I noticed that some of them had unintentionally become addicted to sedative drugs as a result of unemployment. I’ve been seeing them in a place where they used to hide out and observe this deadly menace, and I had an informative interview with one of them, who told me about the main ingredient that drove him to such activity.
Nonetheless, the most significant point here is to draw the attention of the Yobe State government and public agencies with the responsibility of fighting against any felonious acts that can socially affect society. Both parties should immediately intervene to curb the growth of drug consumption and find an everlasting solution that could simply infer those victims of drug abuse from altering that habit completely.
The basic pattern to follow to eliminate such unfavorable commitment among the youth is for the government to burden them with the responsibility of providing efficient job opportunities for them, supporting them with funds to raise a small business scale, and educating them. The process of providing efficient job opportunities can securely remove most of those helpless youths from illegal acts. It will also keep them from sabotaging government and public properties, thereby decreasing the crime rates in the town or the state at large.
Nevertheless, those drug abuse victims are in urgent need of government or private agencies’ support with funds or facilities to grow a local business or get enrolled in schools as it was observed that the majority of them dropped out of school due to insufficient funding and parental support.
Furthermore, the Federal Agencies in charge of controlling drug abuse and illegal consumption should stand firm in their determination to conduct secret general patrols, seize any hard drugs, and send any guilty person to a correctional facility as a means of correcting their mentality and guiding them away from their addiction to hard drugs.
Regardless, it is very harmful to society and the government generally to spare those victims without any necessary security intervention, and if such illegal drug consumption continues to grow among the population, the children will grow up with a belief that nothing is wrong with dealing hard drugs, and the government may find it difficult to control their law-breaking mentality.
Kasim Isa Muhammad wrote from Potiskum, Yobe state.
