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LOCAL musician, Baba Harare, says the country should dig deeper and find strategies and activities to prevent drug abuse as the traditional awareness campaigns have failed to achieve their purpose.
Baba Harare tweeted that urgent action is needed to address the normalisation of drug abuse by the youth.
“Ma anti-drug awareness campaign aya are a waste of time. We all are aware of the drug pandemic. We need prevention strategies and meaningful activities. Waking up in Zimbabwe sober as a youth is painful. Urgent instillation of hope is required,” he said, without suggesting any possible solutions.
His post comes in the wake of the expulsion of eight Upper Six students from elite Harare school, Dominican Convent High, after they were bust using illicit drugs during a leadership camp in Nyanga.
The school also demoted all prefects and placed a ban on all its students from visiting Queen of Hearts and Sam Levy’s Village in Borrowdale without being accompanied by their parents.
It is suspected the girls’ drug suppliers operate in those areas.
Online Reporter