Codeine use ruining youth in Mandera

Whenever Mandera is mentioned, Al Shabaab and the insecurity problems associated with the historically marginalised region come to people’s minds.

Few care to think if the region has youths and if it has, they fear that the youths would eventually waste away by joining the dreaded Al-Shabaab militia. Well, Mandera has a ballooning youth population, which could be slowly but surely wasting away, thanks to consuming a narcotic drug called codeine.