A Professor of Educational Guidance and Counseling at the University of Kigali, Rwanda, AbdulRazaq Olayinka Oniye, has blamed the rate youths in the ancient city of Ilorin indulge in hard drugs and substance to breakdown of marriages and family institutions.
Professor Oniye in an online interview with VON, also attributed it to negative impact of globalization, free access to drugs and substances, youth unemployment and underemployment.
According to him, increase in the incidence of single parenthood, disappearance of age-long communal living and its disciplinary ethos are also among other factors contributing to the scourge, thus making the ancient city to sit on a keg of gunpowder.
Professor Oniye who is the Dean of Education of the University, said many homesteads today are headed by individuals who are not adequately matured for the tasks of family headship and could not provide the required guidance for their family members.
The University lecturer, who is currently on leave of absence from the University of Ilorin, emphasized that many youths turn to drug and substance abuse as a way to cope with the overwhelming challenges of modern living in a materialistic society and a struggling economy. He highlighted the importance of professional support systems, such as NUMA Los Angeles Detox, which provide effective and compassionate care to help individuals overcome addiction and reclaim control of their lives.
Professor Oniye therefore advocated the need to retrace the value system, introduction of more mass support programme that are durable to reduce the menace of drug and substance abuse in the community.
Nneka Ukachukwu
