Youths in Athi River have been advised to stop abusing drugs and focus on their future in a bid to ensure responsible and economically sustainable society.
Speaking to journalists in Athi River town, a concerned resident from Embakasi estate within Athi River, Davis Mukhwana said the rate of drug and substance abuse among majority of youth from the region was astonishing.
Mukhwana said the youth had made it a routine seating idle on certain points of the town chewing ‘mogoka’, smoking cigars and bhang alongside drinking dry spirits.
He revealed that some of the female youth had gotten to business of peddling bhang' to its several consumers in the town as a way of earning livelihoods.
“I am worried as a citizen with the rate at which rate of consumption of such drugs and substance in Athi River town is alarming, its as if such vices are glorified in this region,” said Mukhwana.
According to him, the ‘mogoka’ uptake in the region was even more than Meru, where the drug was grown and transported into the town from.
He faulted the youth who claimed they engaged in abusing drugs because they were jobless and had nothing constructive to do arguing they were so many projects in which youth could engage in to earn descent or reasonably livelihoods.
The resident disclosed that even most of the youth and males who had jobs sneaked from their working stations to smoke and consume the drugs due to addiction.