“Arrest drug dealers, leave me alone!” – addict tells Nigerian police

A Nigerian man who has admitted to being a drug addict has told the police there’s only one way out for people like himself.

“If anybody wants to help us, they should arrest the drug barons or dealers,” Dada Ajayi said after he was arrested by the police in Lagos.

The 48-year-old said he’s been hooked to hard drugs for 17 years. He said the habit has ruined his life, saying he sees no other way our of his mess.

“I am trying to get over it now; drug has been the cause of my stagnation in life,” Ajayi said.

“I have nowhere to go. I have lived the better part of my life consuming drugs.”

Ajayi believes the only way to help people like him is to focus on busting drug kingpins, not just arresting drug abusers.

“Arresting us won’t solve drug problem because without the sellers there won’t be the takers,” he said.

“You arrest the dealers, I mean the merchants, then you have cut the supply and thus saved us from getting drugs.

“Without that, we would always find our ways there whenever we are released,” he said.

Strange enough, established drug kingpins don’t consume the substance. They only make tons of money from it.

At least, that’s one of the lessons we learned from the re-arrest of Mexican drug lord El Chapo..