UNODC Trains 30 Teachers In Drug Abuse Prevention In Kwara

A full of 30 secondary school  teachers person been trained connected cause maltreatment and preventions by United Nations Office connected Drugs and Crime (UNODC) astatine a stakeholders’ store successful Ilorin, Kwara State.

The grooming hinged connected the implementation of the “Unplugged Teachers Training” connected cause prevention successful the state.

The two- time programme, formally declared unfastened connected Tuesday by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq was jointly organised by the MTN Foundation and the authorities government.

The politician was represented by his elder adviser/counselor, Alh Saadu Salahu.

At the method league yesterday, the assets persons from the UNODC tutored the teachers connected assorted methodologies they could employment to discourage students from involving successful cause abuse.

The typical of the UNODC and trainer, Maria Ilugbuhi, said the teachers received grooming connected the 12 lessons of unplung, including building, determination making and wide societal skills.

She said the eventual extremity of the grooming is to realise simplification successful the usage of cause and substance by the students.

Ilugbuhi said the teachers were taught however to assistance students get retired of cause addiction and preventing others from indulging successful drug  abuse.

“We privation the students who person problems of cause addiction to beryllium successful a presumption to attack their teachers for counseling,” she said.

Another UNODC trainer, Adebomi Adekunle, said that helium taught the trainees however to forestall the usage of drugs by students and get those already addicted retired of the menace.

In their responses, 3 of the participants: Nuhu Kabiru Wada (Baptist Grammar School, Okuta- Kwara northbound ) Adebayo Rashidat (Queen Elizabeth School, Ilorin- Kwara Central ) and Olanipekun Pius (Offa Grammar School, Offa, Kwara southbound ) described the grooming arsenic an oculus opener.

“The acquisition is unsocial due to the fact that arsenic parents we are besides funny successful having a cause escaped society,” Wada said.

According to Rashidat: “This grooming is precise educative and an oculus opener. We arsenic teachers and parents are present amended equipped to forestall cause maltreatment amongst our students.”

“We person learned however to counsel students connected the information of cause abuse. This is simply a precise important programme giving the publication of cause maltreatment to immoderate of the societal and information challenges facing our society,” Pius said.