Chronicle Editor
Stephen Mpofu
THIS country’s youth are under virtual siege by obnoxious drugs and substances that annihilate the potentials for this country’s political social and economic development by victims of the drugs who are Zimbabwe’s future.
Which therefore calls for a no-holds-barred crusade against principals behind the distribution of the dangerous substances and drugs before the social menace in-point gets beyond control.
Young men and women wielding AK-47 and other weapons co-habited with snakes and mosquitoes in the bush as they waged the armed revolution that gave birth to the country we now call Zimbabwe from colonial Rhodesia, and some of them lost their lives in the process.
It therefore behoves on every patriotic Zimbabwean who cherishes the role that young people played in the fight against colonial oppression to join hands in today’s liberation crusade against suppliers and distributors of the dangerous drugs and substances and for whom money comes first before a brave new future for our country which can only be realised if every Zimbabwean young or adult link our arms in pursuit of political social and economic development rather than in the pursuit of dysfunctional hallucinations brought about by the intake of dangerous drugs and substances.
To this end the Government deserves applause for establishing an Inter-Ministerial Taskforce to address the drugs and substances menace now wreaking havoc among young people in particular and in whom the future of our motherland rests.
As a matter of fact no country is known to have registered progress in every aspect of development with its people, young or old working under intoxication by effects of dangerous drugs and substances that now wreak havoc in our society as confirmed by the arrest of 468 people suspected of dealing in drugs — which points to a wider market demand for the obnoxious products that imperil patriotic contribution to Zimbabwe’s development initiatives by the end users, 7,1 percent of them being young people.
Reports to the effect that some church organisations have reached thousands of people in the awareness campaigns against the use of drugs and substances — which include cannabis, crystal meth, broncleer, skin lighteners, illicit beverages and body enlargement products must be regarded by all other Christian bodies as a clarion call on them to protect God’s creation from satanic abomination in the form dangerous substances and drugs.
But the campaign against supplies and use of the drugs and substances under the spotlight should be countrywide with rural communities and their church organisations on the lookout for the distribution of the drugs and substances.
This means that schools and parents in remote rural areas have to be roped in to protect their charges and offspring from the drugs and substance menace.
When reporting the arrests by police of suspected drug dealers, the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Dr Jenfan Muswere spoke of the illegal “inflow of illicit drugs, substances and alcohol”, which suggests that the suppliers are in foreign lands, therefore also suggesting that their Zimbabwean agents of clients must be made to face the brute force of our Zimbabwean law by neutralising them if caught in order to end their satanic dealings.
Foreign anti-Zimbabwean Government enemies tried to destroy our country through economic sanctions but failed to achieve their Satanic goals and, who knows drugs and substances could be their alternative way in their unflinching determination to destabilise our society by rendering us ungovernable under drugs and substances.
Therefore every patriotic, peace loving and development-oriented Zimbabwean must rally our support to the Government’s anti-drugs and substances blitz.
After all, no one else but us, Zimbabweans are and MUST BE responsible for safeguarding our freedom and independence and with that the future of our children and that of our children’s children until the angel of God blows the trumpet to end this world of trials and tribulations in which we live.
But in the meantime those found guilty of supplying drugs and substances to youths should be made to pay rehabilitation costs for the affected addicts as some parents known to this communicologist have had to sell livestock to raise money for their offspring in rehabilitation centres with others contemplating the sale of houses to meet the required costs.
The offenders must not be allowed to go scot free to continue with their demonic practices.
Online Reporter