Anglican Communion raises the alarm over drug addiction among Nigerian youths

Diocesan Bishop of Omu-Aran, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Ecclesiastical Province of Kwara State, Right Reverend Festus OyetolaSobanke, has raised the alarm over increasing rate of drug addiction among the Nigerian youth.

Delivering the Bishop’s charge to the third session of the Fourth synod entitled, Raising Godly leaders: A necessity for our generation, in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, Synod President, Bishop Sobanke, urged stakeholders to step in and wage war against drug addiction at community level, saying that the menace is already destroying the destiny of our youth.

“Drug trafficking and drug addiction are becoming a monster affecting our nation. So many youths, both male and female have been exposed to this monster. The church actually commends the effort of President on the appointment of General Buba Marwa as the leader of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency team and we also commend the efforts so far, but then in our local community, we have to step in.

“Therefore the Church of Nigeria through our visionary leader, His Grace, The Most Rev. Henry ChukwudunNdukuba, The Archbishop Metropolitan, and Primate of all Nigeria has joined in the campaign. It is our prayer that this monster will be defeated in Jesus’ name,” he said.

On the state of the nation, the cleric said that Nigeria cannot run a transformation agenda without a transformation leader.

He said that the country needs leaders with the fear of God, “leaders with Godly idealism, one with standards and convictions, with a tendency towards the leader, a strategist, and an alchemist, who will transform our arid desert into a blooming garden of pure delight.”

“Nigeria’s recent history raised hard questions on the issue of political leadership. Here is a nation with vast, enormous, and indeed awesome potential for growth and development and a huge source of human, material, and natural resources.

“In the days of the attainment of national independence, Nigeria had some of the best leaders any nation could have. These were the titans – the great Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe; the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, and the resourceful Sardauna of Sokoto, – men with empires in their minds, whose far-sighted vision excited our fathers and forbears.

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