Power bike riders under the auspicies of Jeje Riders Nigeria have flagged off a national students anti-drug campaign.
The bikers, in collaboration with Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), kicked off the campaign in Yola at the weekend stressing that drug abuse requires collective preventive approach.
The Jeje Riders from across the country were joined by representatives of bike riders groups from Cameroon, Ghana, Benin Republic and Cote d’voir at the Capital School Yola where students from schools around the capital city formed the audience for the anti-drug abuse messages presented during the ceremony.
In a message to the occasion, President and Chairman of Board of Trustees of the Jeje Riders Nigeria, Ibrahim Tizhe, said the association had chosen to extend its humanitarian activities to development of youths by impeessibg it on them to resist drug abuse.
“We flag off this national campaign here in Yola but the campaign will go round the country to turn the minds of youths away from abuse of drugs,” Tizhe said.
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The Executive Chairman of the NDLEA, Buba Marwa who spoke through the commander of the NDLEA in Adamawa State, Agboalu Samson, said the joint nationwide students anti-drug abuse campaign proves the point that NDLEA cannot do all the anti-drug abuse fight alone.
To the students, Marwa said: “Drug abuse is not a path to thread. Don’t experiment. It delivers lifelong destruction.”
Many individual bike readers delivered similar speeches, stressing the points that drugs end dreams and destroy destinies as it takes students from classrooms to where drugs are sold and to a life without purpose.
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri who was represented on the ocassion by the state Commissionner of Education, Dr Umar Pella, said the state was proud to host the flag-off ceremony of the anti-drug abuse campaign.
Highlights of the ocassion include stage performances by commedians, including the famous Sarkin Dariya, all of them passing anti-drub abuse messages.
Some of the Jeje Riders and students (in the background) during the anti-drug abuse campaign flag-off in YolaYola.