Cases of drug trafficking are rampant in Nigeria. Unemployment, impoverishment and the general socio-economic malaise have been identified as the causes of the illicit trade. Working in partnership with the Federal Government and the British High Commission in Nigeria, Hibiscus London last week kicked off an anti-drug trafficking campaign in Lagos. It is aimed at creating anti-drug trafficking awareness. Gboyega Akinsanmi writes.

Comrade Wale Aribatise was a student activist, but he has now become a pastor, and is currently working with a non-governmental organisation in Lagos with a passion to fight social ills. Just a decade ago, he was walking on the street of Lagos in the night when some policemen arrested and detained him for no specific offence other than what he claimed the officers called wandering.

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