Roger3D:
I deliberately opened this thread to gauge their reactions on the issue and frankly I'm far from surprised. Igbos come from a culture that glorifies money and material possession regardless of whether it is obtained legitimately or not. It only confirms what we already know about these people

Northern leaders need to act fast. These guys are not reasonable and should not be reasoned with. That's what the south East Asian countries are doing. Death penalty for drug peddlers. Northern leaders are free to come up with laws that protect its youths.

Act fast.

kanubiafra:
MY Man you are not hausa - fulani you are eighter hausa or fulani

Hausa ppl a shameful ppl. See as the largest tribe in Africa with a population of 55 million dey do attachè by force to minority fulani ppl with just 14 million

Roger3D:
I deliberately opened this thread to gauge their reactions on the issue and frankly I'm far from surprised. Igbos come from a culture that glorifies money and material possession regardless of whether it is obtained legitimately or not. It only confirms what we already know about these people

Another unfortunate educated ignoramus! So the codeine cough syrup I’ve been taking since my childhood days for occasional coughs is now a hard drug? But I thank God for my education and enlightenment to have the sense not to abuse a cough syrup in order to get high and then blame the pharmacist who only prescribed a cough syrup.

Roger3D:
Why are you so vehemently defending drug dealers? Are you a prospective drug dealer too? Take my advice and avoid southeast Asia o cos the death penalty there is sure. On the other hand, you can make a killing by selling codeine and tramadol just like your brothers on the streets of Kano

Let them defend their brothers just as bala is defending his brothers too. But which is better a junkie/drug addict or a drug merchant

agadez007:
tramadol and Cough syrup are not hard drug per se, they are sometimes prescribed to sick people by doctors,the problem is with the people who abuse it

It Will be More effective If the government Should take measures to reduce the supply of the drugs than Going about sensitising their citizens about the dangers of drug abuse.


Why do you think most Asian countries have the death penalty as a punitive measure in controlling the supply of banned drugs?

AZeD1:
The write is a dunce. Demand creates supply. If he wants to stop the drug problem, they should get their youths productive.

Making sure they go to school is a good start.

No that's not how drug issues are tackled. Globally, countries put laws in place to dish out stiff punishments to suppliers of hard drugs. Malaysia, Indonesia, many other Asian countries have such laws. The US have long been involved in wars against the suppliers of narcotics from South America.

Cut the supplies and there won't be consumption. The North should act fast.

Roger3D:
I am sick and tired of the hypocritical ‘political correctness’ and intimidation by way of claims to ‘hate speech’ in the matter of drugs addiction among Arewa youths. We are gradually losing our youths to drugs - and the gradual has since become rapid. We must therefore call a spade a spade - and whatever a shovel will say, let it!

The other day I visited an inner-city neighbourhood in Kano City for a midday meeting. The young boys I saw all appeared stoned, high, drugged. When they spoke (“A gama lafiya Honourable!” and “Me za mu samu ne Yallabai?” etc), they eliminated all doubt about their state of mind; the slurred speech, the gait, the mannerism, the unkempt hair, the I-don’t-care-attitude all combined to tell me this is, sadly, an almost lost generation.

Over the past year, I have attended dozens of conferences and roundtables on drugs. Over the same period, I have heard our elite and leaders speak on this epidemic, pandemic, that has almost completely annihilated a whole generation. All speakers condemn, cajole, appeal, warn, but none seems to be addressing the crux of the matter - SUPPLY!

And that’s what I’m going to do today as I did recently at yet another roundtable where I was quoted to have blamed a minority within a certain ethnic group of being the major suppliers of drugs to OUR, not THEIR, youths. Our youths, and us, are under siege wallahi. And the earlier we jettison all fear of Diaporic Curses by Loud-Mouthed Internet Warriors, the better for us.

Let me say this - I am Hausa-Fulani. Despite my Fulani-ness, I have time without number condemned so-called herdsmen who are mainly Fulani AND who are involved in criminal activities. I again condemn them and call on them to fear God and recant. So, if herders are Fulani, and that’s not hate speech, I see no reason why the identity of drugs traffickers who are destroying our youths cannot be said. Every ethnic group should be courageous enough to do as much - condemn the criminal elements among them. And that’s not asking for too much.

As an academician and journalist, it comes easy, by Allah’s Leave, to be able to do some little research and follow-throughs on this matter. The following are a few illustrations:

“The Katsina State Command of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA…said it had…impounded a trailer in Dutsenreme area of Funtua loaded with 24,000 bottles…of cough syrup with codeine in a trailer from Onitsha to Funtua…Among those arrested are Christian Chukwuma and Obiora Chukwuma…”

“A hard drug (Intoxicant) supplier, identified as Stanley Arinze, has been arrested by the Kano Police Command for trying to smuggle hard drugs...The tablets worth N19, 200,000 were intercepted after being concealed inside LG Plasma TV cartons in a trailer along Kano Eastern bye-pass. The man, a native of Anambra State, reportedly supplies Tramadol tablets to Kano and Republic of Niger…” and “Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja…sentenced a man, Mr. Anthony Chidi Ikeab[/b]a, to 14 years imprisonment for unlawfully importing 1.782 kg of cocaine into the country…”

“Officials of the…NDLEA at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos prevented two Nigerians from execution in Malaysia…[b]Onovo Sylvester Henry…and Ufiri Onyedika Emmanuel…were caught attempting to smuggle 2.575kg of methamphetamine to Malaysia where drug offences attract capital punishment. Nnamdi John Kingsley was nabbed while taking delivery of the television sets containing heroin…“ I have also asked in previous articles: “Where is that container of tramadol intercepted a few months ago by a team of patriotic customs officers destined for No. 3, Festing Road, Sabon Gari, Kano? Where are the arrested and named traffickers Mr. Stanley Arinze, Mr. Onuchukwu Benjamin Owulu and Mr. Igboanugo Vincent Tochukwu?”

and And then, if this doesn’t alarm you, nothing else will, ever! “NAFDAC has intercepted 33 containers of tramadol which were being conveyed to a yet-to-be-ascertained location in Nigeria…The disclosure was made by the NAFDAC Director-General, Prof Adeyeye, in Abuja…”

Arewa, are we also drugged? Why would we just sit down and watch people from elsewhere just come and destroy our youths in broad daylight? Why is nobody following up on these traffickers? Where are the prosecutors and the judges who are alleged to be conniving and using technicalities to release - purportedly on bail - these traffickers who more often than not are never arrested again?

I know some economics. I even know many economists - they of the ‘on the one hand…and on the other hand…’ In fact, I even spoke at a Dinner by BUK Economics Students Class of 2008 just last week. I know inflation and what a small salary can’t do; I know scarcity and glut, in layman’s language ‘over-supply’.

My little knowledge tells me supply trumps demand. Elementary economics, as explained on Wikipedia, says “When supply of a product goes up, the price of a product goes down and demand for the product can rise because it costs less.” Key words here: “Costs Less”. We, therefore, must staunch the supply.

It is good that “Two draft bills have been initiated for legislation to tackle drug abuse in the country...The proposed bills are the National Drug Control Bill and National Mental Health Bill…”

This is all good. The Senate President and his colleagues were in Kano recently, and they promised to do something about drugs abuse. Apparently, they are keeping to their words. But is this enough?

The Senate President should listen to the call by NAFDAC DG Prof Adeyeye: “The National Assembly should amend the law such that drug peddlers could be given stiffer penalties…Using drugs is centrally controlled or central nervous system-based which means it hits the brain immediately and it changes the user to somebody else. During the first use and second use, the brain of the user becomes very different because of dependence. The youths are then no longer able to control themselves, and that is where the crimes, terrorism, come in. Therefore, please let the word go out that drug use comes with consequences. Many youths are dying of drug overdose because it is very easy for them to access addictive drugs…”

Our children are massively into drugs because there is massive, unceasing and incessant supply. We must staunch the supply. Then review our laws. Then detoxify our children. Or simultaneously and concurrently.

We all wonder why we cannot bring capital punishment to national crimes such as drugs trafficking and, to be politically-correct, to kidnapping, rape, armed robbery and murder. Is Thailand more sensible than us, for example?

Two NDLEA State Commanders I follow closely are Kano’s Hamza Umar and Katsina’s Maryam Sani who are genuinely as concerned as I am on this very serious matter. This is not to say the others are not making effort, but Kano, Jigawa and Katsina are my immediate neighbourhood.

So, let’s recap - the Katsina Elite (I will here particularly appeal to senior academic colleague the Wazirin Katsina Prof Sani Lugga) should rise and help Maryam Sani of NDLEA and follow up on the Funtua case. The Kano Elite - LEADS of Barr. Aisha Dankani and Concerned Kano Citizens of Alhaji Bashir Tofa for example - should help Hamza Umar of NDLEA to unearth the matter of 3 Festing Road Sabon Gari and ‘drugs in plasma television’.

Pan-Arewa, the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Northern CAN, Usman Bugaje’s Arewa Research and Development Project (ARDP), the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) and those Arewa October Youths must just have to collaborate and do something in unison, for once.

We just have to do it, and may Allah make it easy for us.



https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/drugs-arewa-must-defend-itself.html

People should be disuaded from buying drugs when they aren't sick. Drug dealers should be dissuaded from selling prescription drugs. A law should be passed to disuadw both the drug taker and the dealer.

No one should come and blame a particular ethnic group here. It us a societal problem.

Let Arewa keep pointing fingers in the wrong direction, how did the drug sellers consider your region a goldmine? Why are the youths of the South not buying the drug, it shows something is seriously wrong with the North.

Roger3D:
I deliberately opened this thread to gauge their reactions on the issue and frankly I'm far from surprised. Igbos come from a culture that glorifies money and material possession regardless of whether it is obtained legitimately or not. It only confirms what we already know about these people

Taaa comot there! How many of you have condemned the massive skull mining going on in your region at the moment? Or is it when you lose your own head or that of a loved one that you would condemn such madness?? Tramadol is a conventional drug used in treatment and it's on record that Igbos own majority of the chemist shops in the North, now how is it the fault of Igbo investors that these people are buying this same medicine for substance abuse?? Why are Igbos in the East or others in the South not abusing this same drug?? Is that not the question you and that so called Bala Mohammed should be asking?? What about those taking marijuana, gum etc is it the Igbos that are selling those ones to these northern youths?? Is marijuana, gum etc less dangerous?? You people are just obsessed with Igbos and yet won't let them go to have their Biafra so you can have your untainted and utopian Nigeria

Omofunaab2:



It Will be More effective If the government Should take measures to reduce the supply of the drugs than Going about sensitising their citizens about the dangers of drug abuse.


Why do you think most Asian countries have the death penalty as a punitive measure in controlling the supply of banned drugs?

Codeine and Tramadol are not illicit drugs.

The drug that attracts capital punishment in Asia is hard drugs..cocaine and the likes.

The Nothern case is totally different.

AkpaMgbor:

On the contrary, the funny and equally sad thing is that despite your supposed education you don’t even know that codeine is a common cough syrup sold in virtually all the local drugstores in the country and so is tramadol which is an analgesic..educated ignoramus!

Wayray ni eeee, Did i even mention codeine in my post?

Omofunaab2:



It Will be More effective If the government Should take measures to reduce the supply of the drugs than Going about sensitising their citizens about the dangers of drug abuse.


Why do you think most Asian countries have the death penalty as a punitive measure in controlling the supply of banned drugs?

For fvck sakes! Cocaine, heroine, meth etc are banned hard drugs/substance...codeine is a common cough depressant! Tramadol is an analgesic just like panadol and paracetamol..they have one active agent..hence it is openly sold by pharmacies all over the country..what kind of bullshyte education are Nigerians getting these days?

AkpaMgbor:

For fvck sakes! Cocaine, heroine, meth etc are banned hard drugs/substance...codeine is a common cough depressant! Tramadol is an analgesic just like panadol and paracetamol..they have one active agent..hence it is openly sold by pharmacies all over the country..what kind of bullshyte education are Nigerians getting these days?

You are dumb.....Did i mention tramadol or codeine in my post?

jodeci:


Codeine and Tramadol are not illicit drugs.

The drug that attracts capital punishment in Asia is hard drugs..cocaine and the likes.

The Nothern case is totally different.

I wasn't talking about tramadol nor codeine


The man complained of cocaine too

Omofunaab2:



It Will be More effective If the government Should take measures to reduce the supply of the drugs than Going about sensitising their citizens about the dangers of drug abuse.


Why do you think most Asian countries have the death penalty as a punitive measure in controlling the supply of banned drugs?

so the rest of us should now die of cough and cattarh whenever it comes knocking because Arewa youths don't know how manage their lives?

Pls,they should either sensitive their youths or quit complaining

asha80:
so tramadol and codeine are hard drugs now right?you dey well so?

Is it only trams and codeine you wayrays supply to the public?

AkpaMgbor:

On the contrary, the funny and equally sad thing is that despite your supposed education you don’t even know that codeine is a common cough syrup sold in virtually all the local drugstores in the country and so is tramadol which is an analgesic..educated ignoramus!

There is a silly conspiracy by anti-Igboists to blame the Igbos for any and every failure. Very annoying and unacceptable.

Omofunaab2:



Is it only trams and codeine you wayrays supply to the public?

what is the topic about?

Omofunaab2:



It Will be More effective If the government Should take measures to reduce the supply of the drugs than Going about sensitising their citizens about the dangers of drug abuse.


Why do you think most Asian countries have the death penalty as a punitive measure in controlling the supply of banned drugs?

Codeine is a legitimate drug in Nigeria though subject to control

I think the existing law is good enough and should be enforced.

I do not believe that most of this codeine is sold through licensed chemists but sold illegally.
better
Now we cannot ban everything because people discover they can use them to get high

e.g sniffing petrol, glue , nail polish and so on.


If people discover they can get high by smoking paracetamol would we ban that too.

Why is this problem of smoking Lizard poo and sniffing latrines not found all oer the country.


In my opinion there is a DEMAND problem in the north. This needs to be investigated/researched rather than saying it is a supply problem


Having said all of that codeine containing cough medicines should not be sold by those who don't have the authority to do so.

Maybe the North needs to relax its attitude to alcohol so that those repressed tensions stop seeking outlets in drugs
The other thing is unemployment. If young people are unemployed and uneducated they have a great risk of using drugs.


The agenda of this guy is hate and based on half truths.

Omofunaab2:



Is it only trams and codeine you wayrays supply to the public?

Cocaine bro. is not supplied to the public.

Igbo Amaka

Thank God this is coming from a different and obviously objective source. Igbos cannot say it is Yoruba man propaganda again

Where is Amarabe sef to come add voice to this magana on ground.

Chetimah:
tell your people to do legit business not to be selling drugs,out of 10people arrested Nigerians around the world 9 of 10 are igbos...why looking for quick money...dats y most of the people on death penalty around d world from Nigeria are igbos...if people talk all u all be shouting is marginalization..

Yes they are all Ibos, including the 14 Hajj pilgrims that are currently on death row over drug trafikking in Mecca of which about 4 have been executed and others are crying to FG to beg the kingdom for mercy but to no avail. Ibos are really terrible.

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ziddy:
Igbo Amaka

Thank God this is coming from a different and obviously objective source. Igbos cannot say it is Yoruba man propaganda again

At least they are not dead.

What are we to do about rising Yoruba ritualism?

One in 5 Yoruba is a ritualist.

Roger3D:
I deliberately opened this thread to gauge their reactions on the issue and frankly I'm far from surprised. Igbos come from a culture that glorifies money and material possession regardless of whether it is obtained legitimately or not. It only confirms what we already know about these people

We actually learnt it from Yoruba culture who also glorify materialism even if it came from human ritual. Unfortunately, only a few of them have succeeded in making money true that means inspite of hundreds of missing people reported in their zone weekly; poverty is still endemic amongst them unlike the Ibos that are much more enterprising in their drug business.

igbodefender:


People should be disuaded from buying drugs when they aren't sick. Drug dealers should be dissuaded from selling prescription drugs. A law should be passed to disuadw both the drug taker and the dealer.

No one should come and blame a particular ethnic group here. It us a societal problem.

I agree

bugidon:
Aboki na aboki!! Is igbo people forcing the drugs on your throats? You guys are very gullible and vulnerable thats why the wise men from the east utilise the opportunity in your mumuness.

My brothers Keep on supplying them more codeine and tutoline but please try and invest in your home too

Let us just be truthful and sincere to each other. I am Igbo, but it pains me so much whenever I look around and find out that most(not all) my people place more value on money than even human life. Our value system is really too bad, and it is nothing to write home about. Wealth, fame and riches are so glorified more than hard work, being truthful, and telling the truth. The elders are totally corrupt... In most places(not all) in the East, you are given titles not by how much truth you've told, or by the lives you have imparted, but by how fat your pocket is. Sometime ago, the pastor of my church asked single ladies in the church to come out to be prayed for. surprisingly the entire church was almost empty, and I must confess the bitter truth-- over 70% of the single ladies are from the East. They have all gotten to their marriageable ages. Most of them complained that their dates have no money for traditional rights. What is their definition of NO MONEY? When will they have enough money? Everything is just Money! Money!! And Money!!! And parents back home are waiting to cut off the heads of their would be in-laws.

The love of money is the root of all evil! Every society has their own peculiarity. We all have our own peculiar problem and this we have to deal with!

Roger3D:
So I take it you approve of drug trafficking?

Please to go school to learn the difference between drug abuse and drug trafficking.

Tell your people to stop taking the drugs biko

Chetimah:
tell your people to do legit business not to be selling drugs,out of 10people arrested Nigerians around the world 9 of 10 are igbos...why looking for quick money...dats y most of the people on death penalty around d world from Nigeria are igbos...if people talk all u all be shouting is marginalization..

Omofunaab2:



It Will be More effective If the government Should take measures to reduce the supply of the drugs than Going about sensitising their citizens about the dangers of drug abuse.


Why do you think most Asian countries have the death penalty as a punitive measure in controlling the supply of banned drugs?

It is either you did not read or understand the quote you commented on above. Please revisit as to discuss intelligently.

Yes they ve seen the problem, they want to deal with problem but they just ve to put the blame on somebody or a tribe to make it easier for their people to act. History has show that for the people of Northern Nigeria to act they must ve to blame the Igbos somehow. I live close to a place in ph where we ve large numbers of Northerners, in my years I ve observe that some of them re always sniffing stuff in a bottle or hanky n by this time hard drugs isn't popular at all, you hardly see guys smoking or doping publicly. Drug addiction ve been prevalent in the north for many years but they are just paying attention now n looking for a tribe to blame as usually.