The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) says youths have continued to dominate the illegal drug and money laundering syndicate in Zambia.
The Commission has disclosed that last year out of the total of 3 417 persons that were arrested for offences of illicit drug trafficking and money laundering, an average age of 26 years old was predominant.
DEC Public Relations and Press Liaison Officer Rosten Chulu told ZANIS that the Commission has since stepped up its effort to sensitise this particular age group on the dangers of illicit drug trafficking and money laundering.
Mr. Chulu announced that beginning January this year the Commission through its education division of the National Education Campaign Division (NECD) is promoting school debate competitions on the dangers of illicit drug trafficking and money laundering.
He disclosed that the debates have now reached quarter finals level for Secondary Schools and semi-finals for Basic Schools.
The motion for the competition is “Drug abuse has contributed to child defilement, rape cases and teenage pregnancies among the school going girls”.
The youths cannot have the resources to deal in illicit drugs they are just being used by pipo with influence in society who have the money and does not want to be caught with their pants down!
This is the reason when a country lacks a viable Youth programme.They even replaced the word youth with the word cadre.
This is the result when a country lacks a viable Youth programme.They even replaced the word youth with the word cadre.
Good cause but not enough. The actual dangers to society in general and its impact on moral decay should be taught to the youth. The issues being addressed are just not enough. conducting workshops for parents on how to deal with children abusing drugs,would be of great help.
hey DEC prepare yourselves for more youths getting involved in the drug trafficking if government does not seroiusly look into the plight of youths. just look at the new government’s move to take the much talked about youth empowerment fund to the Citizens economic empowerment commission complicates the issue much further. already this may how many youth groups or individuals have benefitted from the fund?
According to the CSO website, 75% of those unemployed are aged 15-34. (CSO Monthly Bulletin, Dec. 2006). So the problem DEC will simply not go away just like that unless the Government has a multi-faceted approach by i) starting to pay attention to their own statistical dept’s figures,ii) having a deliberate labour policy to reduce youth unemployment,iii) stop these foreign-owned companies from bringing in artisans from India & China, while our youth, who can ably do the job, are left out
due to lack of jobs!!what do you expect them to do?that’s the fastest way to make cash.give them some jobs and they are going to be responsible citizens.
Development without a people focused set of systems and policies always leaed to grief. Hence our youth being taken into drugs due to LPM’s government’s poor policies on everything in Zambia.
Zambia needs LPM like the way we all need a used condom.
Mr. DEC get to the root of the problem instead of fighting against the youth, they are stronger than you think – they will dabwisa you. What alternative has the country given them? Just look at the conditions of the schools where they obtain their so called “education” – I don’t blame them for hustling.
BAWLINGGGGGG!!!!!!!!! make that cash flo youths thats yo trap do ya thing make that doe…our Leaders have failed us…
Is chitoba a youth?
With a life expectancy of 46 years in Zambia, they are not youth, they are in their middle ages.
Sometimes life backs you into a corner and you have no way out..you gatta do what you what you gatta do.