Edith CHUKU
In a sensitization workshop organised to intensify the fight against drug abuse, the Rivers State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC, Mr. Moses Oleghe, urged corps members deployed to the state to save themselves and family by staying sane.
Oleghe noted that this can be achieved if they shun hard drugs and illicit trafficking, even as he emphasis their detrimental effects on health, family and the society at large.
The NYSC boss gave this charge on Saturday, when he declared closed the 3-day National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA sensitization lecture for 2025 Batch B Stream I corps members, at the orientation camp, Nonwa-Gbam, Tai LGA.
He lamented over the “emotional, psychological, physical, and financial trauma and devastation” parents, family members, and loved ones go through when their child gets ruined by doing drugs.
Oleghe warned the corps members to resist and flee from attraction and fake benefits of indulging in the use of hard drug abuse, adding that its consequences are “grave and fatal.”
Further, he enjoined the corps members to support government, NYSC and critical stakeholders in the fight against drug abuse to a “standstill” by being vanguards against drug abuse in the communities where they would serve.
