Kano Govt Urges LG Chairmen To Intensify Fight Against Drug Abuse

The Kano State Government has called connected each 44 section authorities chairmen to instrumentality the pb successful the combat against cause abuse, describing it arsenic a corporate work important to safeguarding the aboriginal of the state’s youth.

Speaking astatine a grooming store for the chairmen organised by the Kano Reformative Centre astatine Tahir Guest Palace, the lawman governor, Comrade Aminu Gwarzo, represented by the commissioner for Sports, Mustapha Rabiu, said the medication remains steadfast successful supporting initiatives that foster corporate enactment against cause abuse.

Gwarzo noted that cause maltreatment is not simply a wellness contented but a social, economic, and information situation that undermines assemblage stableness and younker development.

He emphasised that section authorities chairmen, being the closest to the people, are strategically positioned to thrust grassroots interventions done assemblage mobilisation, advocacy, and collaboration.

“The chosen theme, ‘United Against Drug Abuse: A Collective-Based Strategy,’ is timely and strategic.

“Confronting this menace requires a coordinated, multi-sectoral approach. Let this grooming construe into sustained advocacy and stronger collaboration with accepted and spiritual leaders, younker groups, and civilian society.”

In her invited address, the Kano Reformative Centre coordinator, Cheryl Aminta Kwagga, said the store was designed to equip section authorities leaders with applicable strategies for preventing, rehabilitating, and reintegrating cause maltreatment victims.

She commended the NDLEA, UNODC, aesculapian experts, and information agencies for their concern successful the initiative.

Also delivering a goodwill message, the NDLEA State Commander, ACGN Idris Abubakar, represented by DCN Maimuna Muhammad, lauded the programme’s absorption connected grassroots engagement, noting that curbing cause maltreatment demands sustained practice among government, assemblage leaders, and information agencies.

He, however, reaffirmed NDLEA’s committedness to strengthening collaboration with each stakeholders to execute a drug-free Kano and a safer Nigeria.