President Joseph Boakai unveiled a complete multi-prong Nationwide Anti-Drug Motion Plan final Thursday to handle alarming surge in drug abuse and trafficking throughout Liberia. The launch coincided with road parade by anti-drug campaigners, predominantly girls and moms, calling authorities’s consideration to the proliferation of trafficking, sale, and abuse of harmful substances within the nation
The Govt Mansion in Monrovia stated President Boakai described the proliferation of medication as “an assault on our future” and reaffirmed his unwavering dedication to safeguard Liberia’s youth, communities, and future generations from the scourge of substance abuse.
Whereas we laud the launch of the Nationwide Anti-Drug Motion Plan by the President, we sense a severe lip-service by the federal government to your entire drug struggle in Liberia that’s being fought with extra speaking and fewer tangible actions. Medicine proceed to come back into the nation through varied borders, together with our worldwide airport.
When President Boakai took workplace, he declared illicit medication a Nationwide Well being Emergency and personally went for drug take a look at. Not solely that, he mandated all public officers to equally report for take a look at, however this instruction fell on deaf ears.
Practically two years into the administration, the federal government has modified management on the Liberia Medicine Enforcement Company nearly thrice, with out curbing widespread trafficking of illicit medication which can be killing the youths.
If the President’s declaration of medication as a Nationwide Well being Emergency has been mere phrases, we wonder if the so-called Nationwide Anti-Drug Motion Plan would yield something fruitful in our struggle towards medication.
It isn’t sufficient to rally the inhabitants towards medication, however the legislation ought to be utilized to function deterrence. Nevertheless, we’ve noticed over the past two years that culprits arrested are launched subsequently with out having their day in courtroom, which is sort of disappointing!
President Boakai emphasised that the struggle towards medication will likely be “non-selective and relentless,” stressing that “no standing, no title, no uniform, and no connection will shield anybody concerned in medication”, and that underneath his watch, Liberia is not going to lose one other technology to medication.
We name on the federal government to maneuver from speak to stern sensible actions to display its professed dedication to the struggle towards illicit medication. We imagine that doing so would display its pledge to rescue the nation.
Two years after, it’s time to tackle the Nationwide Well being Emergency, with all assets at our disposal in saving not solely the present youths, however generations to come back. ‘Motion’ have to be the catch phrase on this struggle.
