Preamble: THE END RESULT OF NEGLIGENCE TO CURB THE INCIDENCE OF DRUG ABUSE AND CULTISM IN LOKOJA LGA.
I express my greetings, with deepest heartfelt condolences, to Lokoja Local Government Area as a whole.
Earlier this year, I wrote an open letter to you, sequel to the above preamble, on the nexus between drug abuse and cultism in the Community. I will re-iterate my opinion on the subject matter that our youth who stay there could be deemed educated when they’ve converted what they’ve willfully learnt in their homes into wisdom for application but indoctrinated when they got compelled to choke on misinformation of taking hard drugs as 3 square meal food. There’s nothing as dangerous as sub-literacy.
Am scared that all Nigerian citizens in the community would tactically be made a victim of one thing or another. The community could be transformed into a Hub of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) if proper measures are not tabled on board to curtail the menace.
To hit the nail on the head, we receive with rude shock the demise of a son or rather one of our sons who was killed in the same community.
Worthy of note, as a matter of urgency, as I earlier stated in my first open letter to you, Senior Special Assistant on Security, Lokoja LGA, neglect of this irregularities is how Insurgence, Kidnapping and Banditry escalated in the North Eastern Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria.
Bandits and other mentioned vices grew from misguided youth who had been deeply rooted in cultism and drug abuse.
I plead with the supremacy of your office to please with immediate alacrity deploy security agencies to this hotspot as well as deploy practicable and sustainable solution to the unfortunate situation.
Neglecting this could give birth to quite a number of social vices we don’t pray to witness.
I remain an unrepentant believer in a greater Lokoja.
Mal Farouq Ndamadu Musa, is a lecturer with Kadpoly,he writes from Kaduna
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