Drug abuse among young people in the Volta Region is as common as in other parts of Ghana.
In 2016, the Narcotics Control Commission ranked the region as a “leader” in the use of illegal drugs, especially marijuana.
Between 2022 and the fourth quarter of 2023, the Immigration Service (GIS), including other security agencies in the Volta Region, intercepted huge quantities of marijuana.
The largest one seized in the last two years is 64,000 slabs of marijuana by the Nyive sector command of the GIS in the Ho Municipality.
Use of illegal drugs in Dzosec
Queen of Dzodze Afetefe, Mama Agbaledzokpui II said illicit use of drugs is on the rise in Dzodze Secondary School (Dzosec).
“We’ve realised that one of the problems here (in Dzodze Secondary School) is how the girls (female students) go out from the school (without permission) to hotels (to indulge in) the use of drugs, which contributes to absenteeism and poor academic performance,” she said.
The queen said, as part of efforts to discourage the menace in the school, “We, the queen mothers, are going to put up rules and regulations that they (the students) will follow”.
On Monday, 2 October the queen and her traditional delegation and members of her non-profit organisation, Mama Agbaledzokpui Foundation, visited the school and donated some 6,000 pieces of sanitary pads to female students of the school.
Mama Agbaledzokpui is an alumnus of the school.
She lamented the abuse of drugs by students of the school.
She said the pads are to compliment the struggle to purchase sanitary pads among female students in the school. She then promised to aid the school in other areas, including the provision of desks, Moyer, and other teaching and learning materials.
The students were educated on self hygiene, drug abuse, and other issues affecting the growth of young people.
Reporting by Albert Kuzor in the Volta Region
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