Monrovia – Various Nationwide Congress (ANC) political chief Alexander B. Cummings has thrown his weight behind the work of the Future Restoration Middle, calling on the Liberian authorities to take stronger, extra sensible steps in tackling the nation’s rising drug and deprived youth disaster.
By Francis G. Boayue
Throughout a go to to the middle within the Battery Manufacturing unit Neighborhood on Monday, Cummings toured the amenities, interacted with residents, and listened to their struggles with dependancy and homelessness.
“We’ve come to assist, however the authorities has a higher position to play in fixing the difficulty of medicine,” he stated. “This may solely be doable if the federal government decides to deal with it like a nationwide emergency in deeds fairly than phrases.”
Cummings praised the middle’s efforts in offering shelter, rehabilitation, and expertise coaching for at-risk youth, generally referred to as “zogos.” “What you might be doing here’s a true act of patriotism,” he remarked. “You aren’t simply giving these younger folks a spot to sleep; you might be giving them hope, a future, and a second probability at life.”
The ANC chief’s go to is his second public engagement on the difficulty in lower than every week. On September 17, he held a dialogue with at-risk youth in West Level, the place he urged the federal government to maneuver past pronouncements and implement sustainable rehabilitation packages.
A employees member talking on behalf of the middle’s imaginative and prescient bearer, Pastor Jerry Saway, welcomed Cummings’s present of solidarity: “Mr. Cummings’s go to is a superb supply of encouragement for us and our residents. It exhibits that our work is being acknowledged and that these younger persons are not forgotten.”
Liberia’s drug disaster continues to worsen regardless of authorities’s current declaration of a nationwide emergency. A 2022 U.N. report estimated that one in 5 Liberians beneath 35 is abusing medicine, together with opioids, cocaine, and the damaging artificial combine referred to as “kush.”
As the issue deepens, facilities like Future Restoration have grow to be lifelines for a lot of deprived youth, offering rehabilitation and pathways to reintegration. Cummings pledged his continued help and urged different public figures and establishments to rally behind such initiatives.
