By Adama Makasuba
Lawmaker for Lower Niumi constituency has strongly advised the nation’s youths against use of hard drugs and said drug can cause serious implication in the life of human beings.
“My advice to you (the youth) is that you be careful of drugs. To be a youth and to complete its tenure is not an easy task. I believe I would be able to tell you these because he who feels it knows it,” MP Matarr Jeng was speaking at a launch of Moonlight Association (MoLA) in Essau.
He advised the smoking youths to stop smoking and while non-smoking youths should continue to desist from it.
“Stop smoking. If you don’t then after graduating from smoking cigarette you will extend to smoking marijuana (weed) and the list goes on and on. Drugs are not for us the old age. If we drink, smoke, or sneeze it the only thing to be between us and our graveyards would be a blink of an eye,” he said.
According to him, the wish of every parent is to raise his or her child and see them doing well “this is what I have seen in your association, and please keep it up.”
Kebba Jallow, councillor for Essau ward praised MoLA for coming up with the idea of setting up the Association, adding: “we will never relent; and we will make sure what Nuimi wants we have it. We will either have it this way or the other way round. This fight is all-inclusiveness and we will make sure we become victors;” he asserted.
Kabiro Camara, Vice President of the Association said they have distributed 50kg bags of rice; 50; drums of oil and onion to the needed families during the first outbreak of COVID-19.
Representing the chief of Lower Niumi, Ismaila Njie, lauded MoLA for their care and the willingness to support the vulnerable houses during this trying times of COVID-19.