IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – A video of two young boys both named Akeem confessing to drinking a hard drug known as ‘gum’ is trending on Twitter.
The children who do not look older than eight years old respectively, were allegedly questioned by a security official.
In the video that was first posted on Tiktok by @temitayo1978ok, the boys were asked where they bought the drug from and they replied they got it from one ‘Alfa’.
They revealed a certain man identified simply as ‘Mutiu’ sends them to buy the drugs from Alfa and also taught them how to take the drugs.
The video has caused uproar on Twitter as many Nigerians wondered where their parents were when the boys were introduced into such act.
A tweep, @ultimatetolu said: “I feel we should start arresting parents who gave birth to kids without taking care of them.”
“💯 to me it make no sense, you know you can’t take care of a kid and you bring them to the world that’s selfish. You don’t have money you born 14 kids, i feel so bad for those poor kids out there with no mission no future no plans they are just living the life of no hope,” @OypDkanmi agreed with @ultimatetolu.
@frontynla wrote: “This is cruel to be honest…..This is just a Deviant act, you shouldn’t shout on them…. What they need is reformations and control measure which will better be effective than this…”
@peetch1999 also tweeted: “Why u day ask question first use belt beat rubbish from them. Move go meet Alfa deck that one for neck.”
@lordhoods shed more light on what gum means. He said: “Actually the actual GUM we all know becomes a very hard substance when sniffed closely and guess that’s what they are talking about here.
“Ejo I am not Alfa oo….make nobody ask me questions ooo”
@slysinzu on his end, rained curses on the ‘Alfa’, saying: “Koni dafun alfa ton ta gum yen 😭 small children fa! 😭 😭”
“Why’s he interrogating kids without their guardians or parents around ,and what’s up with the threat of hitting them ,that’s so wrong 😑,” @DiabloMephy queried the man demanding answers from the children.
@allbelongtoGod said the kids’ face should have been blurred.
“Watching this I just dey shout “Jesus” wtf it’s 💔 seeing this. But you should have blur the kids face. They are still kids.”