Anambra Firstlady Mrs. Nonye Soludo, has launched a strategic operation to end drug abuse in the state.
Angel Network News (ANN) reports that
Mrs Soludo In her speech, shortly before unveiling the campaign on Thursday June 13, noted that drug abuse prevalence is a threatening menace that seemed to have been approached with kid-gloves techniques.
The wife of the Governor of Anambra State, stated that the campaign is designed to track drug spread through strategic collaborations.
She said that it had then become a new responsibility that must be tackled head-on, adding that to get it right, there has to be a mindset that thinks more of the solution than the problems.
The governor’s wife stated that fighting drug abuse is everyone’s affair because it steals from all humans, insisting that the government alone, with its limited resources, can not win the war.
Mrs Soludo also raised concerns about booming drug economies and the negative impacts that have had on homes and communities, stating that the time has come engage the ravage with the seriousness that it deserves.
She announced that the operation, which would be known as “The Healthy Living Overwatch” would play inter-dependent functions alongside local authorities like the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra (OCHA) Brigade, security agencies, the World Health Organization (WHO), Ministries of Health, Women and Social Welfare, Education and Local Government and Chieftancy Affairs, among others.
ANN gathered that the launching of the programme, was tagged “Operation Clean Anambra of Substance Abuse,”
