The tragedy of today's AREWA
The tragedy of today's northern Nigeria is no longer that of extremism but of tragic drugs indulgence, the region is at the verge of collapse because of the wreckage of her youth. Drugs has decimated and dislocated the fiber of the average family in northern Nigeria. In almost every home, there is a trace of drugs delinquency- this is not restricted to the just the macho sex but even women are intricately more involved in the drug abuse venture. A region etching towards an Armageddon you may say!
Diseases and poverty having wrecked the region, drug abuse has taken over , dealing more deadly blows to the region. Roughly, 3 of every 10 young person in northern Nigeria is on drugs- tragically, cheap drugs. It used to be the abandoned kids on the streets but now it has shifted into family setting where the house is now the abode of drug indulgence. Mothers and girls are even topping on the list of those who abuse drugs.
What would have caused this midday calamity? Of course, cultural and religious dogmatism may have played a prominent role. A society that deprives social freedom suffers this kind of consequence. The mind was designed to be free, human dictates pushes the mind to seek alternative liberty, in doing this, the body takes the dangerous route which is ephemeral escapism. And drugs indulgence becomes the resort.
Where rules and regulations dictates people's aspirations in mechanical ways, depression sets in and to escape from this depression, people resort to drugs. Poverty, diseases, illiteracy and punitive dogmatism are lubricating tools of drug abuse.
Lower the human rules, break the stifling traditions and see a new generation of our people defined in happiness and fulfillment. When your life is tied to one routine of life, the mind suffers imprisonment and in revolt, the body caves in to depression.
This is the way out of our drugs tragedy in northern Nigeria, create the atmosphere of freedom, encourage both men and women to take to social engagement peculiar to your customs and traditions, encourage sports engagements, regulating laws for drugs control be strengthened and give more room for expression. A caged mind is a bottled up abode of depression.
The northern Facebook warriors should take a pause, log out of the platform and take a stroll to communities and begin to engage young people on the devastating effects of drugs indulgence. No one can change your community but you. This is the time to halt the tragedy in northern Nigeria.
Proactively musing
© Abdullahi O. Haruspices
Diseases and poverty having wrecked the region, drug abuse has taken over , dealing more deadly blows to the region. Roughly, 3 of every 10 young person in northern Nigeria is on drugs- tragically, cheap drugs. It used to be the abandoned kids on the streets but now it has shifted into family setting where the house is now the abode of drug indulgence. Mothers and girls are even topping on the list of those who abuse drugs.
What would have caused this midday calamity? Of course, cultural and religious dogmatism may have played a prominent role. A society that deprives social freedom suffers this kind of consequence. The mind was designed to be free, human dictates pushes the mind to seek alternative liberty, in doing this, the body takes the dangerous route which is ephemeral escapism. And drugs indulgence becomes the resort.
Where rules and regulations dictates people's aspirations in mechanical ways, depression sets in and to escape from this depression, people resort to drugs. Poverty, diseases, illiteracy and punitive dogmatism are lubricating tools of drug abuse.
Lower the human rules, break the stifling traditions and see a new generation of our people defined in happiness and fulfillment. When your life is tied to one routine of life, the mind suffers imprisonment and in revolt, the body caves in to depression.
This is the way out of our drugs tragedy in northern Nigeria, create the atmosphere of freedom, encourage both men and women to take to social engagement peculiar to your customs and traditions, encourage sports engagements, regulating laws for drugs control be strengthened and give more room for expression. A caged mind is a bottled up abode of depression.
The northern Facebook warriors should take a pause, log out of the platform and take a stroll to communities and begin to engage young people on the devastating effects of drugs indulgence. No one can change your community but you. This is the time to halt the tragedy in northern Nigeria.
Proactively musing
© Abdullahi O. Haruspices
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