A social group Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) has appealed to the emir of Bauchi Rilwanu Suleiman Adamu to warn politicians against engaging the youth into thuggery and drugs abuse.
North east coordinator of the group Bobo Benson Bagwiba made the appeal when the group members paid an advocacy visit to the monarch on Wednesday at his palace.
According to him, some youth become drugs abusers as a result of their engagement by politicians as thugs and vanguards during campaigns thereby making many of them to get addicted to using ilicit drugs.
Bobo cautioned that most of the criminal activities being perpetrated today in the nation are by the youth under the influence ilicit drugs.
Against that, he noted YALI embarked on spirited campaigns and sensitization of youth in schools and communities on the dangers of hard drugs consumption among the youth.
The emir of Bauchi Rilwanu Suleiman Adamu commended the group for its enlightenment campaign against drugs abuse and promised to support them to achieve their goals.
He pointed out that parents also have pivotal role to play in preventing their wards from indulging in to the menace lamenting that many delinquent children go astray due to lack of home moral trainings.
