High cost of cough syrup caused by drug abuse in Kwara

RESIDENTS of Alore community in Ilorin West local government area of Kwara state have decried rising cost of Tutolin cough syrup and other similar cough drugs following their alleged abuse by youths.

The community said that many medicine stores in the area had hiked the prize of the children cough syrup from N150 to N1,000 because of the high demand from youth who have been abusing the syrup as intoxicants

They also decried what they described as astronomical hike in water rate by the state’s water corporation from N1, 500 to N2, 500 per month by the state water corporation.

These formed parts of the resolutions reached during the one year anniversary prayer of the creation of Alore Central Youth Development Association held at the community’s Mosque, Alore.

Speaking at the prayer session, chairman, Alore Joint Community Development Association, Engineer Yusuf Salman, charged the 31 communities that made up the community to come together and rise aga inst all forms of social vices prevalent in the community.

He called on the state government to live up to its responsibility of providing potable water to the residents, lamenting that a situation where residents of the community would have to pay N2,500 rate for water not supplied to them was unacceptable.

The people, who also complained of irregular power supply in the area, bemoaned the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company IBEDEC over persistent poor power supply to the community.

Also speaking, Chairman, Alore central development association, Alhaji Abdulrahaman Olowookere, expressed the association’s commitment to mould youth that would make the community proud.

Olowookere said that the community in the last one year had facilitated admission of many qualified youth into various higher institutions of learning in the state.