The Minister of Youth Development, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said in Ilorin on Sunday, that about 1,000 Nigerian youths were being detained at various prisons in China for drug related offences.
He said he had already written to the Chinese government for details of their offences so that the Federal Government could use them as campaigns to dissuade young people from engaging in drug trafficking business.
He urged youths to stop engaging in drug and other illicit businesses, saying the risks and punishments outweighed the seeming benefits.
Abdulahi said many youths were attracted to drug trafficking in a bid to get quick wealth without knowing or appreciating the inherent dangers.
"The risks of drug trafficking far defeat the benefits, infact there is none. Whoever gets involved will get caught sooner than later and whatever the person might have acquired will go with it. So where is the benefit?
"The only way to good living is to be involved in legitimate business whereby nobody is running after you for committing an offence. "There is nothing like getting rich quick and there is no short cut to it," he said.
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1,000 Nigerians jailed in China
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Monday, January 23, 2012
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'Legimate business such..... as cabal which can't be caught'
ReplyDeleteGovernment cause it because of unemployment by the government,this make some youth to found themself in the job,i urge the youth to stop the act,aswell as the government should provide job opportunity for the youth,for the betterment of the nation
ReplyDeletechwwwwww,'legitimate' business like the one he himself, the adviser is into. i hear him. adviser.
ReplyDeleteMallam Bolaji Abdullahi, you are a bloody liar. In Nigeria, there is something as getting rich quick... you know it and you are part of that system that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer...
ReplyDeleteIn case you don't know, they serve good food in jail overseas and they have a place where one can lay his head... Would they rather die in bomb blasts and marginalization?
By the way, not all of them are held with proper trial. You should find out details about each Nigerian held in custody and act on a case by case basis. That is how other governments act...
Our government is so messed up!
Nigeria is gradually sliding into a state of confusion and division... As it is, nobody is in any position to urge anybody.
ReplyDeleteThe government is unable to handle Nigerians in Nigeria; not to talk of Nigerians in China. Mallam Bolaji has just made a stupid excuse why those Nigerians should be abandoned.
This generation of leadership is hopeless!
Mallam Bolaji l don't blame people like you who does not know the tales of an hungry man, jobless graduate whose parent had sold all they have to get them educated with the believe that he\she will alleviate their poverty one day. I must say that God will punish all of u bad people in government who convert the of this country to their personal enjoyment...Nigerians are suffering from people like u, u people politiketized everything in this country including getting jobs. The truth is that one day we the youth will call for revolution. Note; We have benefited nothing there4 we will losting getting rid of u bad people in nigeria...every every every soon
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