Yobe: Community Leader Advocates for Establishment of Rehab Centre At NDLEA Office In Potiskum

Yobe: Community Leader Advocates for Establishment of Rehab Centre At NDLEA Office In Potiskum

By: Yahaya Wakili

It has been observed that there is a need to establish a rehabilitation center in the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the Potiskum area office.

The observation was made by a community leader in Potiskum, Alhaji Umaru Adamu in an interview with NEWSng in Potiskum.

He said the establishment of the rehabilitation center in the NDLEA office will assist in vocational skills training of our teenagers and young adults who are involved in taking and businesses of illicit drugs.

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“If such rehabilitation center was establish the youth who involved in use of heaps of illicit drugs arrested by the NDLEA will be train in different skills acquisition like tailoring, carpentry among others and at the end they will be self-reliance.” Alhaji Umaru said.

“After the graduation from the center they would look for other legitimate businesses and it will make them to be good people in the societies, infact in the whole Yobe state there was no rehabilitation center.” He added.

According to him, the current Area Commander of the NDLEA, Alhaji Mai Anguwa Nuradeen and his men are not relenting in the pursuit of the agency mandate to make the people of Potiskum local government and its environs safe from the drug scourge.

He revealed that, before the coming of the new Area Commander, Nuradeen Potiskum town has become the place where the illicit drugs were sold everywhere, but now the Area Commander and his men have drastically reduced the drug menace in the area.

Alhaji Umaru Adamu further revealed that the people of the area have commended the Area Commander and his men for their commitment that has made possible achievements of the agency in reducing the activities of heaps of illicit drugs in the area.

“The agency is willing to carry out its duty effectively but the most challenging which the agency is facing is lack of operation vehicle because the agency doesn’t have operational vehicle at its disposal.” The community leader observed.

He used this medium to call on Potiskum local government and the Yobe state government to get an operation vehicle for NDLEA personnel to continue with the good work as they are doing and also urged the people of the area to continue supporting and giving the agency the useful information they need.

Yobe: Community Leader Advocates for Establishment of Rehab Centre At NDLEA Office In Potiskum