Our youths and drugs: Letter to President Buhari
Oluwatomisin Amokeoja
By Caleb Oladimeji Daniels
Years back, the sale of kidney in countries like Malaysia was the get-rich-quick option adopted by the Nigerian youth, but the ongoing trend trumps whatever risks were involved in kidney merchandising. Subject them to psychiatric evaluation, most Nigerian youth would fail woefully as many cannot claim to be in complete control of their faculties due to the degradation of their senses by all sorts of things, some of which are not qualified to even be termed ‘drugs’.
There are all sorts which you must have read or heard about as being responsible for deaths of young people. A recent incident was that of Francis Chibuike, a 400-level student of Optometry at Abia State University who jumped from a three-storey building. His drug of choice was said to be ‘Colorado’. Not able to withstand the effects, he plunged to death. There is also the ongoing case of 21-year-old Chidinma Ojukwu who admitted to stabbing Super-TV CEO Michael Usifo Ataga to death after both of them had become allegedly high on Rohypnol (roofies) or date-rape drug.