500 Nigerian Youths Languish In Japanese Prisons Over Drugs – Bishop

[Shola Sholaz]

AT least 500 Nigerian youths are languishing in Japanese prisons over alleged drugs and other related offences, a Nigerian-born Bishop, Enock Adebayo has said.
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Adebayo who is president of the Nigeria-Japan Chamber of Commerce based in Japan, said while briefing newsmen in Lagos, yesterday, that the Federal Government should take immediate action to save lives of the youths.
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The bishop claimed that the youths must have engaged in the unholy businesses because of lack of jobs and the belief that they had no future in their country, Nigeria.
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He said, "the chamber has been educating more than 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 10 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."
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He advised Nigerian elders and leaders to behave well, because the youths and their children are watching their footsteps, either for good or bad."
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Bishop Adebayo disclosed that the Nigeria Japan Chamber of Commerce was working to attract many manufacturing companies, including vehicle manufacturers to Nigeria to set up their industries, adding that the government should provide an enabling environment for Nigerian businessmen to operate, instead of allowing them to run away to Ghana to set up their businesses.