No fewer than 500 Nigerian youths are presently
languishing in Japanese prisons over alleged drugs and other related offence,
Bishop Enock Adebayo yesterday said and called for immediate action.
Bishop Adebayo, President of the
Nigeria-Japan Chamber of Commerce, said government should do everything
possible to save the lives of the youths. He spoke to reporters in Lagos.
According to Rev Adebayo, who is
married to a Japanese woman with six children, said the Chamber of Commerce had
tried all it could to save the youths but to no avail, because of the large
number of the offenders and the alleged lukewarm attitude of the Nigerian
Ambassador in Japan.
He claimed that the youths must have
engaged in the unholy business because of lack of jobs and that they (youths)
believed they had no future in their country, Nigeria.
“But the Chamber has been educating
over 3,000 Nigerians among them, the youths resident in Japan that the future
of Nigeria is very rosy and bountiful, which will propel Nigeria to become a
world power in the next ten years. Nigerian youths should be honest,
hardworking, resourceful, faithful and be able to plan ahead. We have been
educating them not to cross the ‘red line,’ in order not to fall into the same
temptation and mistakes our past leaders found themselves,” advising Nigerian
elders and leaders to behave well, because the youths and their children are
watching their footsteps, either for good or bad.”
Bishop Adebayo disclosed that the
Nigeria-Japan Chamber of Commerce was working frantically to attract many
manufacturing companies, including vehicle manufacturers to Nigeria to set up
their industries.
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