A section of Nairobi University students, Kikuyu campus have embarked on a mission to sensitise the public on the effects of drug abuse.
Speaking last evening in a local primary school after a sensitisation meeting, Students Campaign Against Drugs (SCUD) chairman Erickson Mang’oli said that the movement was inspired by their past experiences in drugs.
Mang’oli noted that the movement was initially started by four students but currently has 80 members.
Mang’oli said that the motive of the campaign was to help youths to shun drugs and to help those addicted by taking them in rehabs.
He explained that drug addiction is dangerous menace but the society does not have anyone to sensitise it on its effects.
“We go round schools, especially high schools educating them on drug addiction and cautioning student against drugs,” said Mang’oli.
Mango’li observed that so far their campaign has helped over 100 drug addicts to overcome addiction adding that they want to change lives of people lost in drugs.
He revealed that their main objective is to be a national youth transformation movement that will help those who are struggling to get out of addiction.
According to Mark Muturi a group member and a former bhang addict his life changed after his parents took him in a rehabilitation centre.
Muturi noted that drug abuse wasted his life as it interfered with his education.
He explained that what he experienced from addiction enabled him join the SCUD movement to educate others as well as a having a testimony to encourage them.
Francis Njuguna, 38, said the campaign helped him get out of alcohol abuse. He said that through the initiative he is now out of the addiction.
Njuguna explained that he was an alcohol addict and had even separated with his family due to his drinking habit.
He stated that he could not think of anything first other than alcohol.
However Njuguna revealed that his wife and children are now back home.
He called on families with people addicted to drugs to come out and seek for help.