Imam, Chief Solima Bah, of the River View Community in Caldwell Township, has decried drugs abuse as a plague that requires education in to lessen the menace nationwide.
Iman Bah said every successful nation depends on the youth, who are expected to grow with dignity, to avoid behaviors that will corrupt the minds, and subsequently disrupt their future.
He told reporters that “leaders today were once in their youth before becoming the person they are now. This process of development was based on the upbringing their parents and guardians guided them into.”
“Each and every one of us has the responsibility to train up the children, because the government cannot do it alone.”
As such, Iman Bah called for sound education to divert the minds of many of the young people from the drug-abuse.
He added: “Leaders today acquired discipline, and were not drugs users; it is the reason they are prepared, and leading at the moment.”
Bah said without education, the religious community itself will not tackle the troubling situation at hand involving the drug menace.
He wants today’s children to be properly educated, and supervised at home during every step of their adulthood.
The intent, Bah said, is to disabused their minds from taking in dangerous substances.
The fight against drugs also involved public awareness that does not rest only on government’s regulations, but the duty of heads of households to teach the children right from wrong.
Iman Bah also said it is the primary duty and responsibility of parents, be they Muslims and non-Muslims, to take the lead by adequately engaging the children not to fall prey to peers’ pressure