The Minister of Youth Development, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said in Ilorin on Sunday, that about 1,000 Nigerian youths were being detained at various prisons in China for drug related offences.

He said he had already written to the Chinese government for details of their offences so that the Federal Government could use them as campaigns to dissuade young people from engaging in drug trafficking business.

He urged youths to stop engaging in drug and other illicit businesses, saying the risks and punishments outweighed the seeming benefits.

Abdulahi said many youths were attracted to drug trafficking in a bid to get quick wealth without knowing or appreciating the inherent dangers.

“The risks of drug trafficking far defeat the benefits, infact there is none. Whoever gets involved will get caught sooner than later and whatever the person might have acquired will go with it. So where is the benefit?

“The only way to good living is to be involved in legitimate business whereby nobody is running after you for committing an offence. “There is nothing like getting rich quick and there is no short cut to it,” he said.


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