The management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, has offered to join the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in its fight against drug abuse, especially among youths.
LAUTECH’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof Michael Ologunde, made the promise while hosting the agency’s Area Commander in Ogbomoso, Mr, Aminu Yusuff Ahmed, and his team.
Ologunde said the nation could no longer continue to watch the future of its youths get destroyed by drug abuse.
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Promising to support the NDLEA and the Drug Free Club of the university to educate students on the dangers of drug abuse on their careers, The vice-chancellor said LAUTECH would henceforth make it mandatory for intending leaders of the students’ union to undergo drug tests before they are certified qualified to contest for various positions.
Ahmed told the vice-chancellor about the high prevalence of drug abuse in Oyo State and Ogbomoso.
He said students were responsible for the high figures the agency was contending with.
“We will appreciate your making use of our counselling and rehabilitation centres as a means of recovering anybody arrested from the path of peril,” Ahmed said.
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