By Chijioke C Iyioku
Only a few days ago at one of the popular radio stations in the state, the controversial factional chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Enugu state, Mr Ugochukwu Agballah, brazenly admitted with a tenor of arrogance that he was into illicit drugs such as cocaine, cannabis, methamphetamine or what’s generally referred to in Igbo parlance as, mkpurumiri, all of which are destroying the lives and future of our young ones, reaffirming the ageless public knowledge of Agballah’s drug addiction.
During the interview session in the radio station, Agballah stated that many people in the state were accusing him of dope and other illicit drugs, stressing that he owed nobody any apology about trafficking illicit drugs across the country and beyond.
In a sane society where the law works and nobody is treated as a sacred cow, an existential menace like Agballah should be in a maximum prison either as a punitive measure to deter further commission or as a rehabilitation process that will psychotherapeutically heal his mental illness.
However, Agballah has continued to carry on with the illicit business without consequences. He junkets media stations, bragging that he could even commit murder and walk scotfree. Once inebriated by illicit substances, Agballah would pounce on his wife as a punching bag, and the people of Enugu knew the rest of the story. A man who murdered his first wife in a cold blood like Boko Haram terrorist shouldn’t be allowed to walk free in the society.
The manifestations of that mental disorder occasioned by illicit drugs and alcohol are still protruding daily in Agballah. He would deny it because of the backlash further admission by him will generate.
What Ugo Agballah did not appreciate, however, is that nobody is taking him seriously whenever he makes his usual utterances as it’s taken as someone under the influence of illicit drugs which influence his bad habits and spontaneously affect his mental health.
Years ago, around 2003, Agballah was picked up by security operatives in connection with drugs, but got out because of the corrupt system the nation is mired in. He is today walking around and destroying the future of our youths with drugs.
His major occupation, outside politics, is trafficking in drugs using innocent youths to do the dirty job. Hundreds of Enugu youths are today, languishing in prisons because of the drug fugitive.
If Agballah would not stop doing drugs because of his addiction, he should stop it to save the youths whose future is severely being threatened by his nefarious activities.
A stitch in time saves nine.
