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Hands Across Africa Development Initiative, a Non-governmental Organisation is sensitising secondary schools students in Kogi State State against drug abuse and cultism.
The organisation has began a series of sensitisation campaign to secondary schools and has visited Bishop Delisle College, and Crowther Memorial College in Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State with a promise to visit more schools.
According to the Executive Director of the organization, Umar Dan’Assabe Muhammed Cornelius, the campaign is statewide and will go a long way in helping the students to resist the temptation of going into drugs and substance abuse and also to guide them against falling into the deadly temptation of joining any secret cult.
Umar said that they decided to create awareness in secondary schools because their developing minds makes them more vulnerable to manipulations by cultists and drug addicts in the society who have targeted them for recruitment into their fold, and to also educate them on the danger of drug abuse and cultism to societal development.
He said many young people were ignorant of the effect of hard drugs to their health and that trafficking, distributing or consuming illicit drugs constitute an offence.
He said that drug abuse and cultism had affected the education of many Nigerian youths and the society negatively, hence the need for effective sensitization among the young ones in order to eradicate the menace and safeguard their future.
“We are also setting up Anti Drug Abuse and Cultism clubs in all the schools visited. This clubs made up of student of the various schools under the supervision of a head teacher will help to step down the advocacy among their mates”.
Umar advised parents and guardians to always monitor the movement of their children in order not to be influenced by bad friends.
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