Excesive Drinking is harmful to the Development
Excessive drinking is a threat to the development.
By: Abraham Daljang Maker, Kampala Uganda.
It is Christmas season and everyone is crazy to save money for this crucial season which everybody has been yearning for. To some people, they are saving money to buy new clothes and many other valuable items for the celebration. While others are struggling to make sure that they spend their money on bottles of beer, wine and many other types of hard drinks.
In south Sudan, drinking has become fashion to everyone. Both young and adults are all alike. You realized this at the end of the month when civil servants have got their salaries, many people hang out in drinking joints to intoxicate their brains and later disturb their families at homes. The worse of it all is when children under 18 drink more than the elders. Despite the warning made by the brewery companies that “alcohol is not for sale to persons less than 18 years,” young people especially street children mostly 10 years and below are alcohol addicts.
Additionally, brewery companies also caution people that excessive drinking is harmful to your health. That means being above 18 years is not a clear license for you to drink a lot of alcohol. Too much drinking is harmful to the country’s development is many ways:
Firstly, alcohol breaks off families especially when a man drinks a lot and comes back home late to disturb his own family. Surprisingly, women who are believed to be taking care of the family also involve themselves into drinking. In such a case the children of such people will grow up in unfriendly atmosphere which they will emulate in the near future. Such families always have unending quarrels; this makes the whole family miserable.
Secondly, many able bodied youth who are supposed to work hard for the development of the country have taken up drinking as a hobby. There are many instances where many youth spend most of their time drinking and they become more insensible to do any office work. This therefore is the great threat to the development of the nation because youth are the pillars of any nation. But alcohol has deprived the country of its potential youth who would provide man power.
Thirdly, most of the read accidents are attributed to excessive consumption of alcohol. It is estimated that up to 90% of the read accidents are caused by too much drinking. Many innocent people are dying everyday in these accidents just because of unprofessional habit of drinking and driving.
Just like many other African countries where all these things are reported, south Sudan is not exception. Many youth in the new nation are largely involved in such excessive drinking and they have forgotten that we have just come out from very dangerous life of war. Most of us who are studying out of south Sudan are copying the bad habit of these countries where we are living. We should be aware of where we come from before we imitate the youth whose countries have never been in a terrible war like our country.
I am not telling everyone to stop drinking but we should understand the slogan of the brewery companies that “excessive drinking is harmful to your health.” Yes drinking is a habit, but it can only be a bad habit if you abuse it by taking too much of it that can poison your mind. Even a mere food can be harmful if you take a lot of it, and that is why one gets stomach trouble because you have taken the amount that you are not supposed to take; So too much of everything is always bad.
I for one am totally against children who have indulged themselves into drinking. I was stunned a few months ago when I was in my home state, seeing children even below ten years drunk and they were beating each other badly in broad day light and no one bothered to separate them. These kids could be very dangerous to the state and even to the whole country when they reach the age of 18 years and above. The chances of these children to become thugs are very high and people shall have no peace of mind at all.
I therefore urge the government of south Sudan to put some measures against such children as early as possible to stop them from being the spoil children. We have very big challenge which is still a head of us particularly we the youth of south Sudan. Our veterans took up arms in order to see us in a better future, the ball is in our coat and the option is ours; if we play it well then we shall succeed and our elders shall never regret their struggle.
I wish all of you well as you celebrate the birth of Christ. Drink responsibly and do not go astray forgetting the long and rough road that we have been walking on for all these decades. Long live the youth and God bless my beloved country, south Sudan!
By: Abraham Daljang Maker, Kampala Uganda.
It is Christmas season and everyone is crazy to save money for this crucial season which everybody has been yearning for. To some people, they are saving money to buy new clothes and many other valuable items for the celebration. While others are struggling to make sure that they spend their money on bottles of beer, wine and many other types of hard drinks.
In south Sudan, drinking has become fashion to everyone. Both young and adults are all alike. You realized this at the end of the month when civil servants have got their salaries, many people hang out in drinking joints to intoxicate their brains and later disturb their families at homes. The worse of it all is when children under 18 drink more than the elders. Despite the warning made by the brewery companies that “alcohol is not for sale to persons less than 18 years,” young people especially street children mostly 10 years and below are alcohol addicts.
Additionally, brewery companies also caution people that excessive drinking is harmful to your health. That means being above 18 years is not a clear license for you to drink a lot of alcohol. Too much drinking is harmful to the country’s development is many ways:
Firstly, alcohol breaks off families especially when a man drinks a lot and comes back home late to disturb his own family. Surprisingly, women who are believed to be taking care of the family also involve themselves into drinking. In such a case the children of such people will grow up in unfriendly atmosphere which they will emulate in the near future. Such families always have unending quarrels; this makes the whole family miserable.
Secondly, many able bodied youth who are supposed to work hard for the development of the country have taken up drinking as a hobby. There are many instances where many youth spend most of their time drinking and they become more insensible to do any office work. This therefore is the great threat to the development of the nation because youth are the pillars of any nation. But alcohol has deprived the country of its potential youth who would provide man power.
Thirdly, most of the read accidents are attributed to excessive consumption of alcohol. It is estimated that up to 90% of the read accidents are caused by too much drinking. Many innocent people are dying everyday in these accidents just because of unprofessional habit of drinking and driving.
Just like many other African countries where all these things are reported, south Sudan is not exception. Many youth in the new nation are largely involved in such excessive drinking and they have forgotten that we have just come out from very dangerous life of war. Most of us who are studying out of south Sudan are copying the bad habit of these countries where we are living. We should be aware of where we come from before we imitate the youth whose countries have never been in a terrible war like our country.
I am not telling everyone to stop drinking but we should understand the slogan of the brewery companies that “excessive drinking is harmful to your health.” Yes drinking is a habit, but it can only be a bad habit if you abuse it by taking too much of it that can poison your mind. Even a mere food can be harmful if you take a lot of it, and that is why one gets stomach trouble because you have taken the amount that you are not supposed to take; So too much of everything is always bad.
I for one am totally against children who have indulged themselves into drinking. I was stunned a few months ago when I was in my home state, seeing children even below ten years drunk and they were beating each other badly in broad day light and no one bothered to separate them. These kids could be very dangerous to the state and even to the whole country when they reach the age of 18 years and above. The chances of these children to become thugs are very high and people shall have no peace of mind at all.
I therefore urge the government of south Sudan to put some measures against such children as early as possible to stop them from being the spoil children. We have very big challenge which is still a head of us particularly we the youth of south Sudan. Our veterans took up arms in order to see us in a better future, the ball is in our coat and the option is ours; if we play it well then we shall succeed and our elders shall never regret their struggle.
I wish all of you well as you celebrate the birth of Christ. Drink responsibly and do not go astray forgetting the long and rough road that we have been walking on for all these decades. Long live the youth and God bless my beloved country, south Sudan!
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