Unemployment and Drug Trafficking

In recent weeks, several Ugandans were executed in China for drug trafficking. The unemployment problem in the country has forced people to do weird things. Drugs are undesirable products which interestingly are on very high demand and yield very high profits in many countries especially the United States. Risky activities have very high profits. This is the nature of drugs. It is a very risky business in many Asian countries as culprits are killed. The effort in drug trade is usually very little compared say to somebody who plants 5 acres of maize and the outcome is lots of money. These drugs however are said to cause addiction and affect the brains the human body. They can cause hallucinations, sleep problems and can make people run mad. At times people become aggressive, emotionally and mentally unstable due to usage of drugs. With this, many governments worldwide have banned them. In some countries people have chosen to go into this business looking for the money in it however in the poor countries, people go into drug trade because they are looking for an income. Other causes have been lack of moral education, lack of policies on labour export among others. in Uganda, we should look at drug trafficking as an employment challenge. We need to deal with it.