Lagos Lawmaker Says Most Nigerian Youths Are High On Drugs

Lagos lawmaker, representing Amuwo Odofin constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mojisola Alli-Macaulay, says most Nigerian youths are high on drugs all the time.

She made the assertion during a plenary on the carnage caused by hoodlums in the wake of the #EndSARS protest.

The lawmaker said, “The National Orientation Agency needs to get to work. We need to begin to orientate our young people. They need people who can talk to them from time to time. They are high on drugs all the time, most of them.

“They go to social media and say all sorts of things. I’m even scared to give my young children phones because I am scared of what they may see on social media. It is that bad.

“It is not unemployment that should be the reason why youths should come out and begin to misbehave. There is unemployment across the world, even in the United States.

“I schooled in the UK and I saw a lot of young people who were not employed but they didn’t become hoodlums. Why can’t we look inwards and look for solutions to our problems?

“Why can’t the young people look within themselves, look for their talents? Even if you are a graduate, what stops you from being a designer or a professional tile man and make a brand of it? There is no excuse for being a hoodlum.”