“They Are High On Drugs All The Time, Most Of Them” Lagos Lawmaker Mojisola Alli- Macaulay On Nigerian Youths

Eniola Adeniyi

State lawmaker Mojisola Alli- Macaulay has shared her opinion on Nigerian youths.

The lawmaker from Amuwo Odofin constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly stated “The National Orientation Agency needs to get to work. We need to begin to orientate our young people. They need people who can talk to them from time to time. They are high on drugs all the time, most of them. They go to social media and so all sorts of things. I’m even scared to give my young children phones because I am scared of what they may see on social media. It is that bad.”

Alli- Maculay made the submission at the plenary during the debate about use of social media and how it shaped the #EndSars struggle for a better nation.

She further stated that ““It is not unemployment that should be the reason why youths should come out and begin to misbehave. There is unemployment across the world, even in the United States.

“I schooled in the UK and I saw a lot of young people who were not employed but they didn’t become hoodlums. Why can’t we look inwards and look for solutions to our problems?”…

“Why can’t the young people look within themselves, look for their talents? Even if you are a graduate, what stops you from being a designer or a professional tile man and make a brand of it? There is no excuse for being a hoodlum,”

The #EndSars struggle ended in widespread destruction of public and private properties after it got hijacked by hoodlums under the guise of protesting the shooting of unarmed protesters at Lekki Toll-Gate, Lagos state.