DIAMOND BANK PARTNERS LAGOS STATE TO COMBAT DRUG ABUSE IN SCHOOLS

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L-R: Director, Social welfare & Youth Development, Olabode Ajao (Representing Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Lagos State); Team Lead, Corporate Social Responsibility, Diamond Bank, Olayemi Olusoga; and Area Manager, Iyana Ipaja, Diamond Bank Plc ; Simeon Ahmedu at the Diamond Bank sponsored programme “LETS KICK DRUGS OUT OF LAGOS” held for students of Vetland Junior/ Senior Grammar school, Oko Oba Lagos recently

As part of her Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, Diamond Bank Plc has partnered with the Lagos State Government to host the Lagos State Kick Against Drug Abuse (LASKADA) campaign – a progamme designed to sensitize and educate students on the danger of drug abuse .

Head Corporate Communications, Diamond Bank Plc, Chioma Afe who spoke at the launch of the initiative at Vetland Senior Grammar school, Oko Oba, Lagos revealed that the bank has a huge interest in the future of Nigerian youths and would always strive to advance the social well-being of every Nigerian youth.

According to Mrs. Afe,  “The issue of drug abuse in the society has increased alarmingly in the last few years and should be tackled aggressively, especially among young children who are not only devising new avenues to access dangerous substances including combining seemingly harmless household items to create harmful drugs, but are also the target of drug peddlers.”

L-R:Folasade Alabi, Principal, Vetland Senior Grammar school, Okeoba, Lagos; Olayemi Olusoga, Team Lead, Corporate Social Responsibility, Diamond Bank Plc; Aremu Abraham Oluwajedalo, student of Vetland Junior Grammar school, Ogbeide Christiana Eyi, Student of Vetland Senior Grammar school; Olabode Ajao, Director, Social welfare & Youth Development; Simeon Ahmedu, Area Manager Iyana Ipaja, Diamond Bank; and Rashidat Sanusi, LASKADA representative at the Diamond Bank sponsored programme “LETS KICK DRUGS OUT OF LAGOS” held for students of Vetland Junior/ Senior Grammar school in Lago

Chioma revealed that the “Diamond Bank digital financial platform ‘DreamVille” was one of the ways the students could plan their financial future, save, chat and update their financial knowledge while playing games to become responsible adults in the society.

Director Social Welfare and Youth development, Olabode Ajao, who represented the Commissioner for Youth and Social Welfare, acknowledged and praised Diamond Bank’s role as a passionate and supportive corporate organization interested in the future of the Nigerian youths. He said Diamond Bank has kept its promise time and again and has shown its seriousness towards the development of the Nigerian youth.

“The Lagos State Youth and Social Development Ministry would not relent in its effort to ensure that drug abuse is reduced to the barest minimum in the society and to this end, the ministry had put in place a drug abuse campaign programme championed by the LASKADA team which, in the first phase of the campaign would engage 50 secondary schools in Lagos to enlighten and educate students on the effects of drug abuse,” commented Mr. Ajao.

Abimbola Aderemi, Principal, Vetland Junior secondary school in her speech, enjoined the students to desist from celebrating or copying slangs from musicians which could form a habit and encourage peer pressure amongst themselves in partaking of the drug culture. He cited an example of a popular song with a popular chorus of “won ti po chemical po” (meaning; they have mixed chemical together).  Abimbola emphasised that such slangs might mislead a child to drugs and other domestic related violence.

Cross section of Vetland Junior and Senior Grammar school students with Lagos state and Diamond Bank officials at the “Lagos State Kicks Against Drug Abuse” (LASKADA) programme organized by the Lagos state government and sponsored by Diamond Bank held at Vetand Senior Grammar school, Oko Oba recently.
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