Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has a programme called the War Against Drug Abuse, known as WADA, and it has already made real progress in raising public awareness about drug use and trafficking across the country. But writer Abdulhameed Yushau is making the case that this work needs to go deeper, and that secondary schools are the place to start.
The argument is straightforward: students need to be reached before they become vulnerable, not after. Sustained, targeted sensitisation inside school walls gives young people the language and the awareness to recognise and resist drug culture early. One-off campaigns are not enough.
What Yushau is calling for is an expansion of WADA's reach into secondary school communities in a serious, consistent way. The foundation has been laid. The question now is whether the agency will build on it where it matters most.
Originally published by Premium Times.