It is sickening to read comments like the one expressed by the Acting Director General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Kunle Obayan. I think the reverse is the case, as the lack of job opportunities are driving people into substance abuse. Frustration, poor policy implementation and other related decay in the society is fuelling what the Acting Director General of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Kunle Obayan enumerated as the driver of youth substance abuse.

Can anybody provide me with data or statistics of how many jobs have been created by NDE this year – that is, if you subtract the eyesore training provided at the NYSC camps.

Let’s face the facts, lack of government agencies such as NDE in ability to provide vocational training based on societal needs that leads to both job and entrepreneurial development are the driver of substance abuse not what the Acting Director General has opined