Drug Trafficking is a global illicit trade involving the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of substance which are subjects to drug prohibition laws like marijuana, cigarette tobacco, Shima, tramadol, cocaine, heroine and Molly. Nigeria is a transit point for heroine and cocaine intended for European, East Asian and North American market. Since 2004, drug traffickers have been increasingly using West Africa for smuggling large amounts of cocaine.
As a graduate of any university, people expect one to be working in a company that pays well, they expected you to have been upgraded and financially buoyant, and then family responsibilities will begin to creep in, personal responsibility and needs, change of environment. But at the end just mental advancement of knowledge, increased ideology and your certificate as been all that you have acquired. When unemployment and poverty make you their companion, to be sincere, they give one sense of deep thinking, the question that pop up next will be, ” if you are seeking a job in a company, they would be asking for like ten years experience from a student that just graduated from a university, your ideology, ability to solve problems, convince and not to confuse? This can also aid to illegal business. In this case, this illegal businesse give one a chance of working like an ant and eating like an elephant,majorly,they give quick money with no stress though it involve lot of risks,dangers and lack of peace.
Youth are the leaders of tomorrow, indeed, to some extent but when one fails in some duties expected of you,you become excluded and people will seem not to recognize one,even in family, they will be like, “we can see how your mate are fairing in wealth and luxury” , even if they know the source. The reasons going into this illegal businesse are high rate of unemployment, increase of poverty level,low income, poor business environment and freedom but the obvious motives behind them are for wealth making, connection, luxuries, honour, respect and frame, etc. The involvement of drug trafficking is devastating, for example, a Nigeria movie titled Far From Home, where the main actor was forced to sell molly at his school for a particular period as his punishment for stealing from his boss, which he sold carefully, each piece for fifty thousand naira, at the end he was brought to justice. The Nigeria economy has greatly contributed to this illegal act which the youth of now adays go into, if the government can provide more job opportunities to enhance them, I feel the youth can be free from illegal businesses.
By Seidu Toluwani Esther
Badagry Express Way, Ojo.
P.M.B 1087 Apapa, Lagos State.
