in south africa, we follow a former alex journey from the streets on to the state. and can years 1st female super by champion, takes a ride into possibly with the issue focuses on africa growing drug abuse problem. this problem is heightened because of the continents young population. nigeria has immediate rock problem on its hunts in africa, most populous country. more people are abusing drugs than anywhere else in the world. in the following story, we meet bazooka in canada, not in nigeria. he gives us an insight into how many young people procured rocks and avoid the prying eyes of society. in colonel, a thriving commercial city in north west nigeria here and surprising youth. a viable workforce. what's on the flip side use are also plain victims of illicit drugs and sources of use. drugs are rubbing. nigeria is move of their future in missouri, our area of kernel we meet was in a 34 year old meal. drug addicts was volunteered to bates all i started taking it when i was in scanners school. it was introduced by my friends. bazooka is gainfully employed. he works with a construction firm. hello, ross, over stoutly yell marie. location. ok next 5 minutes instead for you to go to don't hula by. mid dragon would follies . so you just met. call us up the drugs that is like listening condos to its alma is or if her non coding data form exam. d 5 silva, i thing is the only was after various phone calls bazooka writes to different locations in countries to pick up supplies. having gotten the products bazooka drives to a junkyard away from the prying eyes of the community. and the look at a junkyard again is conversion jungle the call? it's a luxurious a hold for the consumption of elicit rose. i bought a suit bazooka. arise with this, talk a little bit with the quizzing. you know, i don't know yet my now i don't like it. i ordered a yell of what i get. what i'm sorry if i get drugs and i take it, i will fill joy. hi, p and o said my burn free. as bizarre as it may seem, bazooka is on his way out of drugs. hence his corporation. i was have on it. i had a letter that if i take it, it will be an order problem to my my body and my health, but gradually annual. i hope so. if i put mine, i will stop it. put a walk away from drug addiction is an enduring journey. this rehabilitation shelter houses over 30 victims of broken substance abuse at a go. we were told that the last batch of inmates were discharged 3 days ago. it's sasha of this are well her shelter. we are very well agitated, over 100 it to one inmate. from here we move to what the organization refers to as a black spots in supplementary areas of co states. most of the rehabilitative drug abuse victims come from here. when we create a program, we call them together and you know, share ideas with them. tell them what drugs tell them or if it of drugs who react to their health bazooka has taken a giant step and has reached out for help. today, bazookas, journey to freedom has started with concert and steps the nigerian society could reclaim its young generation one youth at a time. i honestly hope that bazooka successfully gets clean, but for many young people in nigeria, the picture does not really look good for us. what us and weak lawyer enforcement make it easy for drug cartels to ship tons or brock's into west africa, on the transit to europe. and many of the drugs take their route. you see here. but a lot of these drives remain in countries like nigeria. and when police officers meant to check these crimes are accused of aiden traffic s. like in the case of supercop, our backyard, it paints a gloomy picture. but a young people, images, capital up which are, are not given up. they have ideas for how this problem, country salt and this really st debate this share some of these ideas with it at kamani. ah, hi and welcome back to another episode of the 77 percent this week. we are back in a book, jenny, julia, and we had to ask an age or question. is it possible to win the war on drugs? i want to ask mr. mohammed a j is a commandant of n d l e a. this is the national drug or legislative body here in the country. about 14000000 people have used drugs at some point. why do you think this number is so high compared to the rest of the world? a fluke are decisive, nat geo. cuba mission was well over 200 and some to 1000000 people. so 14 is what the fraction then what steve it is too high. so the local factors are, can be a deuce as to whether or why they are using these drugs. lack of employment to society. will it be, ah, lack of parental cheer? will it be broken? who? so a lot of factors can be a deuced, why a lot of use artic in his room. so let me introduce half. so who is an investigative journalist? tell us what the biggest challenge is, what are people consuming? how are they getting access to it? most drug abusers do it as a try for help is not that they just woke up and decided to start doing drugs, but rather there's always some sort of stemming reason why they chose to do it as a, as a sort of belief. yeah. he mentioned unemployment, of course, it's one we'll also need to declare the aspect of women many women resort into taking drugs from what we have them reported because of their being married at a young age or because they're divorced. and in northern nigeria being a divorce coleman is such a taboo to the point that some parents would kick their daughter out if they could co dot out obviously. where do you think you'll find refuge? yeah, it's either she finds someone or be friends on one or gets her boyfriend that will eventually the push her or influence her into starting drugs. right? yeah, i want to come to you hums because you come from a region in this country called puppy. can you tell us a little bit about it festival? i think us getting off poppy and talking about drug abuse. i think you're going to go anywhere from each other. you go out to the streets, you see a very young dudes. walk in on the streets, teaching has like a sivitz like awesome, it's normal and parental supports also secure, resembles the postal sadie, poor thing fighting from way comparable, are really influenced using agreements with drugs. okay. okay. and you've been quiet for a while. let me bring you into the conversation. what is your experience are with drug use and abuse? knowing full well that at the moment you in a relationship with somebody who is kindly fighting addiction, everybody has something to do with the use of drugs either you use in you have used, or somewhere close to use use in, or someone in your family use it here, i don't think there's a home in adrian own dog. okay, let me just do a quick survey of what he's saying. any of you know somebody who is directly or indirectly affected by drugs, please raise your hands. so it's very, very wide spreads. okay? so tell me what you experience was your personal experience there and that of oliver as to why you would do dr. joe mcphee. i'm into heart label. i used is fan killer to walk in. tom will tell you it's been a hard day. i can sleep when i get home dis, exhaustively shislett. so needs to be awake all night. just to walk, probably different unit trucks to do till one way or the other easy. it gets us coming back to the use of jokes. okay. yeah. can you tell me some of the things and ways that people are employing to get that high it will go to extra length leg getting higher from the fuck away. and it works. yeah. so mohammed is your job then, and impossible, and why you set up to fail. because if people are going to literally go to the gutters to get that high and who knows what's left them there? you can't possibly enforce that. you can't control that. we will have a problem there has to be a legislation does, will also cover this kind of low contracts. now that the, are you much, maybe wendy and dearly ups was actually enacted. deuced is we're not put into consideration what, what, what do we do? we use current one, do you, do you arrest them off? cause more mentally you temporal, you are as there. what are the end of the you cannot prosecutor because data is not covered under our legislation at all. we have difficulty de leon phase or let me come to you as a psychologist because i think it's really easy to castigate. people who use drugs and say, hey, they're a menace to society, they're the problem. but we, failing to understand the deeper issues, addiction doesn't it? doesn't just you just can't get addicted to a drug. your body system has to tolerate the drug is tolerance than leads to addiction. so psychologically this people are using does drugs. they are, they are chain because they can stop themselves from taken to drugs, even if today they are going to keep a trop lot of them. and the idea of is us in a place and somebody wants to get the drug and we're showing you that, that, that particular neurotransmitter is going to keep on secret him until he finds, or he, she finds her way to go and get this drug. yeah. how accessible is rehabilitation and treatment because that the next logical solution to a person who is suffering from addiction. they are the medical you trained rehabs where you can go and get some psycho social hope that you need therapy. but then there are also the law called re, haps, we've done reports on how we've seen so many cases encounter where drug addicts are tied up in chains like animals, all in the name of you happy you're taking them. so let's come up with solutions. now. there's a reason why the war on drugs was started because there are far reaching consequences to the abuse of some of these substances. hasta. i think it's better to nip it in the bud before it begins. then after you should be able to, a child should be able to go to his parents and literally tell them what they're going to let their hearts out completely. so that to be in order at the end of the day, there's someone there for me. drugs isn't on you think that's there for me. yeah. okay. i'm sorry. let's hear from you because besides enforcement of laws, what else can be done then it's a year is that mine says that has been created before the few of the full use of that. we used to make the police officers our friend, and they need to show it from the outward perspective that okay, you are our friend. they knew the builders relationship between the boots versus the appearance also needs to be sensitizing. they also play a very big rule in, you know, on corbin this. yeah. hi george. so a holistic approach toward sensitization. yeah. and education are med, let's hear from you 1st hand experience have been use the drugs yourselves the now senior golf and battling with this. what do you think it will take to finally put an end to it? or put in an empty jokes. you need to look at the site to corruption 1st, before you're, you're put in this responsibility of fighting this war. i do really fighting the war, or are they just returned in to fight the war? good question. because you, you confiscated a whole lot of drugs. we do seed on tv and jesus with some bags of weed and put it on fire. ready as will how close to the rest of the jobs? the consistency. let's wind up with the mr mohammed here because i started with you also curious to know what more you can have in order to be further empowered to do your job. governor knew to do better to, to form the agency provides us with all the tools that we need on so that you will see our best suited of able to get in to put their best foot forward. yeah. yeah. well, i thank you for the comments and i think that's a great place to wrap up this debate. now at the beginning, i asked a critical question. is it possible to wage a war in drugs? i don't know the answer to that, but what i do know is that from the discussion here, it is clear that the focus should rather not be on drugs, but on human beings. thank you for watching. ah, thank you. also, it is and your panel for that interesting conversation. if want to know more about the ideas that these young people have had on to our youtube channel, where you can watch a longer version of this to beat. law enforcement is obviously one way to deal with that drug abuse menace. another is to provide support and understand that ibex need affection and opportunity. and this is what kept house zip zip academy gave to jacobus class. and today the former drug addict wows funds with his captivating skills. the turning point india cooper's class and life began in this place. the zip workers academy in cape town, south africa. here, the 29 year old is training $5.00 to $6.00 times per week. the foremost rich child has come a long wait. it was his one of the main performance at zip up circus. clown, acrobat juggler. his repertoire is wide located in the cape town, district would stoop. zip up is not only a focus society, but also a training center. the academy offers a free education for young people, rent one principal, found, zipped up in 1995 together with his wife law and both a former circus. we believe that any kid, no matter what the background if they've given the opportunity in life and they are passionate about what they do, any child can make it. and zip said, you know, we kind of provide that platform to give children that maybe don't have as much as others the platform to do something with their life. jacobo was one of this children touring with zip up circus, took jacobo around the whole world. in the last years, he even performed in front of tennis superstar, georgia federal or barack obama at the white house. however, his road to success was rocky. as a teenager, if us would leave on the street of pearl, a town close to cape town, he was addicted to highly dangerous drugs such as mun, trucks and myth. ecoboost was at rock bottom. he joined the zip up at the age of 16 with the help of an outreach program. i wanted more for myself. i didn't think of going back to the rags. what dang sellers them in. oh, i love that. ah, that didn't come close to my head. and some of them gave me a taste that gave me a bite of the apple. and i told myself i won. i won more of the sample, the artist of zips up a training for one of the most important events in south africa. the national, at festival in queenstown, jacobo that his group will perform the latest stage program. for this all tricks and 10th have to be on point. it's festival time. slowly, the room feels with people and the cut and goes up. i am yes. and what i remember on my door is never the cable or anything. oh, oh, your call was gave everything. but now he has to improvise. ah, it works out well. the blouse from the audience sees it all in the middle of the happy bunch. blissful, jacobo, he is aware. within this group, the former homeless child found himself a real family. i am happy to see that the jacobo just has been able to make something positive out of his life. despite his earlier struggle with drugs. and this goes to show that with a writing formation and direction, we could all become better versions. but, you know, sometimes you have to defy dos around you. when people see you can't achieve or goal, you must prove them wrong. that is a story of how money one to school. she is the 1st woman to win the east africa by tom to ship. but to do this, she had to speed past all of the stereotypes and societies, expectation of what a woman should do. how many one g is true, the demon, the professional supervisor has been waiting for the past 5 years, even before she get the tracks. always love the open air rush, motorbike racing korea. all thought it was there from a friend, chris, i bureau very good. so why don't you think i'm just hanging on the truck and i was, you know, you can do this. so i thought maybe funny is that i had like a challenge. then i fell in love with it, and following her passion has speed off in 2019. how many became the 1st woman to win the east africa support by championship? she then came 2nd of a 2019 read started by, by championship into a 100 south africa as it could weapon that you had that the fuss? is he ever so me? i was intending to and then iving them. what do you get from them? and i kill yeah, comedy has been instrumental in reducing the stereotype. the reason is not for women. although some races older she didn't belong on the truck. didn't let us know her down. as she was there was use you need some people who want to put you in don't but you know, my clown welfare. oh is it says home when he started making a name for herself. a coach had also noticed more women on the track. we are seeing more and more interesting fact i would see easy now we are heading towards the boston mach locally known as the buddha. what's your bike? or someone would have transport in kenya. although it's still uncommon to see women writing motorbike more and more. and now it's in the freedom, the border, buddha's offer them whether the a sneak into a traffic was different over roads and highways. how many encourages all us fire invited? simply start with what the high by one, isn't it a sudden alone in have a team in have a sponsor in on a bike? well, i know early knew is good writing skills and in the end it took up the challenge that i was given to be to be the 1st and may be the 1st one on the truck. after a recent injury, how many is back on the track? she's in patient already training to claim another podium victory. i'm hoping for how many one g cool. i'm just thinking, well my parents would see if i told them i want to be a super bike rider. from that story, i want to know into use you to a place that has given a lot of people to become this both icons. the dream off. come with me to could to go in book enough. i saw this is known as west africa sport city. come, let's check it out. they though, hello, my name is richard geese who i am and i'm going to show you my physical safety of could do google. well, that gives me situated in the center of 15. i thought so could do go. it's full of young people passionate about one big sport and victory, re so is no exception. victory and contracted polio age too. but has always been very active. in fact, she represented, but also at the 2021 paralympics in tokyo, and she trains regularly with this young generation of athletes, victory practices, javelin, and shock port. ah, i mean, oh m, anthony net, i missed that i missed you. this is my trina, isa cur, gonna me let me know. thanks to him. i've made great progress. i've loved for since childhood. at 1st i wanted to do by creasing my, but there is no facility for it includes why that's why i concentrated on the roving sports. when i'm near new phone with mountain, i'm thinking i thought the next victory takes us to sculpt. damage workshop could agree has become a trendy residence for different autism. quality of life. incredible is very high and it's much cheaper to live here compared to the capital work i do. that's why many artists walk here like the bronze sally total nor many solid works are designed for public space. is this sculpture represents a bob tree? one of the most recognizable symbols of the african continent? ah, ah, it's time for lunch and victory knows just the place. she's invited members of her sporting club to her local favorite restaurant to indulge included gruesome signature dish. i had a 444 mangled trees is famous far beyond. could you go for the grilled chicken on spicy rice? soon by law, we are in full, a tasty meal. animal fat to what nap allan as nighttime approaches could ago, has one last trick up its sleeve. the 8th, because nights of good to go or in a cave festival, hundreds of musicians and dances come to this cultural highlight each year. and a fair number of local dignitaries june earlier to the any kate festival is the biggest cultural event in could you go? it's already the 26th edition, many famous artists from booking of fossil and neighboring countries come. we are very proud of any kate and you are welcome to. could you go to potty? we love nap. how about monday, emma carmen from the traditional to the contemporary. but gina farces could do. go has it all so if you live in west africa and you're looking for a place where a good mix of tradition and modernity, you know where to go. it's good to go. also, if you want a horn your talent and become the next track and field star, you can go to, could you go and use your training facilities that is or show for this week. that's by the problem of tracks. there are solutions, so don't despair. if you know someone struggling with trucks, so the solutions in this sure could help. i want to know how you get along. so send me a message on facebook, instagram and youtube. also you can drop me an email at 77 at dw dot com. i leave you with this beautiful song, harris cuba by sign. enjoy until next time. thanks for watching a lot with with shift your guide to life in the digital world. explore the latest online trends. navigate your way through the digital 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