Evangelist Francis Ahliy Wilberforce (seated 2nd from left), Patron, with Rev. Godwin Hallo (middle), National Youth President, NBAI, and other pastors, elders and some of the youth who were trained

Church leaders urged to advise youth against illicit drugs

Emmanuel Modey Jul - 18 - 2025 , 14:24 2 minutes read

The New Birth Assembly International (NBAI), a charismatic church, has sounded alarm at the escalating rate at which the youth are becoming addicted to illicit drugs.

It has therefore joined the fight to control it and thus for the past three years, it has organised educational training for the youth in three different locations in the country.

These trainings have been held in Madina in the Greater Accra Region, Aflao in the Volta Region and Likpe-Kukurantumi in the Oti Region.

The National Youth President of NBAI, Reverend Godwin Hallo, said the situation was serious and needed an all-out collaboration to fight it.

He said it was very common to see the youth, both males and females, gathered at various spots consuming such illicit drugs as shisha, tramadol, opioid (red), alcohol, among others.

As such, Rev. Godwin Hallo said the well-being of leaders of tomorrow was slowly being threatened.

Four-day programme

He said the four-day educational programme for this year was on the theme, ‘Building a good reputation’, and was intended to help complement the government’s efforts to achieve its vision of controlling the menace in the country.

Under the programme, the youth were taken through topics such as how to build a good reputation, how to adopt self-denial especially from such things as lust of the flesh and how to build good habits by adopting certain characteristics that would enable them to serve as role models in society.

Rev. Hallo said 50 youth were being educated to become peer educators to extend the message of drug abuse to their various communities.

He appealed to the society, especially traditional authorities and queenmothers to sustain the fight against drugs since it was a collective responsibility.

The Patron, Evangelist Francis Ahliy Wilberforce, advised parents and guidance to monitor their children against peer influence that could lead them to become addicted to drugs.

He further entreated all to invest their resources in the education of their children.