Manga, “A drugged youth is a mortgaged future,” lamented Thursday, the superintendent of the Saint Gabriel private high school in Manga, Brother Bruno Mendy, deploring the resignation of parents in the fight against drug use in schools.
“We note with bitterness that family education has given way to that of social networks and television. However, it is within the family unit that we can properly supervise and monitor children regarding the consumption of narcotics of all kinds, such as drugs,” declared Thursday the superintendent of the Saint Gabriel de Manga private high school. , Brother Bruno Mendy.
Brother Bruno spoke during an awareness session on the harms of drug consumption, organized in his establishment by the Permanent Secretariat of the National Committee for the Fight against Drugs (SP-CNLD).
For the religious, it is up to parents to have a permanent presence alongside their children to prevent them from falling into vices such as drug use.
He therefore welcomes the action of the SP-CNLD because by joining students in educational structures to raise their awareness, the structure fills, he says, the void left by parents in the education of children.
“A drugged youth is a mortgaged inviting future,” he argued before students from the Center-South region, and therefore from all over Burkina Faso, to distance themselves from this behavior in order to better build their future.
Through the organization of the awareness session in schools, the SP-CNLD intends to fight against the production, marketing and consumption of drugs, indicated the head of the department of prevention and monitoring of the legislation of the SP-CNLD, Levy Yoda.
Mr. Yoda explained that a drug is defined as a substance of natural or manufactured origin, which, when consumed by a living being, modifies one or more of its functions or modifies its behavior.
According to the legal classification in force, he continues, there are two types of drugs, licit drugs, such as cigarettes, coffee and tobacco, and illicit drugs, such as cocaine, opium and cannabis, of which consumption and sale are prohibited by law .
According to Levy Yoda, the awareness campaign against drug consumption led by the SP-CNLD in the city of Manga will last from October 23 to 28, 2023, with more than 1,600 students expected to be raised in seven establishments in the city, including four from secondary school and three from primary school. Nationally, in 2023, a total of six regions will benefit from the awareness campaign, Yoda said.
Source: Burkina Information Agency