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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerian youths and students to abstain from the use and abuse of psychoactive drugs, saying those substances add no value to life but destroy it.

He spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun State, at the second edition of ‘Fly Above The High’, anti-drug campaign conference organised by the Recovery Advocacy Network.

Obasanjo who bemoaned the growing menace of drug use Nigeria and West Africa, called for a restraint among the youths.

The Ota-farmer recalled how his tenure as the Chairman of the West African Drug Commission under the Kofi Annan Foundation, made him to learn that West Africa is not just a transit point for drugs but has also become a centre of consumption.

He said of the commission crisscrossed West Africa with the belief that the region was free from drugs, which he said, came mainly from Latin America and go to North America and Europe.

“But to our dismay, displeasure, and pain, at the end of the exercise, we found out that West Africa has equally been a centre for drug consumption in a very bad way. That was more than 10 years ago, so the situation has since gone worse. And whatever applies to West Africa applies to all other parts of Africa,” Obasanjo said.

He also recalled that an attempt to embrace smoking by him as a young man led to a severe coughing, but he had to run away from it.

“If I had persisted, I could have become addicted. Once you get involved, it is difficult to get out,” Obasanjo told the gathering of youths, students and mental health specialists and policy makers.

The former president insisted that “There’s nothing drug can do for you except destruction.”

He urged those already addicted to psychoactive drugs to seek help and warned the society against stigmatization.

In his address, the Managing Director of Serenity Royale Hospital, Dr. Kunle Adesina, revealed that about 14.3 million Nigerians, representing 14.3% of the population, have used a substance within the last six months adding that one in five drug s is female.

“Addiction treatment is best approached through prevention. We must focus on primordial and primary prevention levels to educate young people about the dangers of substance use before they start,” Adesina advised.

He called for strong legislation to reduce the availability of drugs, noting that the widespread accessibility of substances fuels the growing crisis.

A mental health specialist, Dr. Samuel Abah, said “From our experience we discovered that even those that are meant to control the substance are the one involved.

“We must stand our ground that this thing is not helpful, it’s destructive. It’s not just a pleasure but a destructive pleasure.”

https://dailytrust.com/obasanjo-i-could-have-been-a-drug-addict/

Say no to drugs

Bad governance is contributing immensely to the whole circle, people are looking for ways to escape the reality of hardship caused by their stupid leaders.

Tinubu was a drug addict before,he sales and comsum

Talking to tinubu indirectly baba ogbon

Goodmarlian:
Talking to tinubu indirectly baba ogbon

Nlfpmod, it is not me ooo. I didn't mention BAT

Hmmmmm


Drug usage in Nigeria has gone beyond repair . .. especially among the youth .


They are even experimenting with so many harmful substances ......

Like gum, super glue, paint thinner, etc

illicit:
Say no to drugs

you this drug addict

this is what Obasanjo should be doing, people should stay away from drugs

Is he Dissing the drug Baron?

Okay....

agulion:
Tinubu was a drug addict before,he sales and comsum

Not like Walter White (Heisenberg) who does not consume but only produces and sale the finest quality.

agulion:
Tinubu was a drug addict before,he sales and comsum

Nah Tinubu matter go Kill you

Goodmarlian:
Talking to tinubu indirectly baba ogbon

You mean OBj that sleeps with his sons wife? What leaaaon did he have to teach the youth

Why baba no even talk sey.. "just like T-Pain"

Wise Man

Habbeyy:
this is what Obasanjo should be doing, people should stay away from drugs

confirmed

lol
Nothing sweet about any type of addiction except destruction
Baba 90’s 3 gbosa for you

Goodmarlian:
Talking to tinubu indirectly baba ogbon

It's inconsequential.

Krankhead:
You mean OBj that sleeps with his sons wife? What leaaaon did he have to teach the youth

Are you the son or the sons wife?

I hope they listened. Many destinies had been truncated!
Or na T-Pain cause am?

Habbeyy:
this is what Obasanjo should be doing, people should stay away from drugs

Between taking drugs and sleeping with the wife of your son, which one is punishable by God?

Zaheertyler:

Are you the son or the sons wife?

Stop ing nonsense. Do you wish to sleep with the wife of your son?

Do you consider this irresponsible act as worthy of emulation?

Krankhead:
You mean OBj that sleeps with his sons wife? What leaaaon did he have to teach the youth

U catch am?

Okay o.

But you, Sir, decided to be a womanizer instead!

My friend's mom told me how you used to disguise from dodan barracks, back then to come meet with her friend in Surulere.

Late in the night!

Obasanjo just fired shot..... Onunu.ugu will soon reply

Aswani:

And it wouldda still paid off for him cos druggies can become presidents here all thanks and praises to koneheaded structures and agberoes

Hmmmm

Onala, Ojuina, Itafaaji, Agarawu are the hqtrs in Lagos Island.

iwaeda:
Onala, Ojuina, Itafaaji, Agarawu are the hqtrs in Lagos Island.

Guy where have you been nah,hope you've updated your Man UTD/Ipswich thread?

Simply put, you met the challenges in the future and overcome unlike one criminal that swim in drugs in his youthful days and become an ugly drug addict