Professor Johnbull, Mama G condemn illicit drug use in new episode

The use of illicit drugs among youths and the damage it causes takes the front burner in this week’s episode of popular TV drama series, Professor Johnbull, sponsored by telecommunications firm, Globacom.
Titled High People, the lead character in the series, Kanayo O. Kanayo (KOK), is joined by Nollywood star actress, Patience Ozokwor, a.k.a. Mama G, to condemn the ugly trend in a stern tone.
In the episode, erudite Professor Johnbull organises a seminar in tandem with Mama G on the debilitating effects of hard drugs. While the seminar is underway, Flash the Boy (Stephen Odimgbe) is rushed in in a delirious state occasioned by his romance with illicit drug which he obtained from a fellow student identified as MacChukwu Ilodibe.
Like Flash, Jumoke (Bidemi Kosoko) is also discovered to have tried getting ‘high’, as an antidote to the disappointment experienced when she was jilted by her boyfriend. She takes indiscriminate doses of cough syrup, which is another of the substances which youths abuse in order to be ‘high’ either to enhance their performances or get relief from a depressing situation.
Professor Johnbull who is the conscience of the sitcom decries the alarming number of young people who are hooked on drugs owing to their distorted impression that they need the drugs to excel in life or that such drugs enhance their natural capabilities.
The academic expressed sadness that a good number of patients in the nation’s psychiatric hospitals are victims of illicit drugs. While asserting that the situation is completely preventable, the professor advises the public that prolonged use of cocaine, marijuana, gutter and sewage sniffing, fuel and glue sniffing will eventually destroy vital organs of the body as well as lead to anti-social behaviour.
Aside from KOK and Mama G, other regulars of the series who feature in High People are Caro (Mercy Johnson-Okojie), Churchill (Jnr. Pope Odonwodo) and Abadnego (Martins Nebo).
The episode comes on air on NTA Network, NTA International on DSTV Channel 251 and NTA on StarTimes at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, with repeat broadcast at 8.30 p.m. on Friday on the same channels.