DAR ES SALAAM, June 19 -- ACTUALLY, our youths are not dying from lack of ambition, but simply they are dying from addiction. The streets are littered with lost potential, victims of a drug trade that walks among us like a ghost in plain sight.

Drug peddlers, once shadows in the alley, are now bold and unafraid, flaunting wealth earned through misery.

Drug lords operate with impunity, hiring local hands, recruiting the young and infecting entire neighbourhoods with false dreams and real nightmares.

The truth? Every pill pushed, every powder passed, every needle offered is an act of war against our families. It is time we named the enemy and fought back with every legal, social and moral weapon at our disposal.

The government must decl...