Abia govt, monarch express concern as NDLEA rehabilitation centre overflows with inmates in Aba

Abia State Government has expressed interest implicit the reported summation successful the fig of cause addicts receiving attraction and rehabilitation astatine National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA rehabilitation centre successful Aba.

The Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Nwadinma Ananaba expressed the interest on Friday during a store organised astatine Okwu Olokoro assemblage successful Umuahia South LGA, against cause maltreatment among youths.

The Commissioner who was represented by Ijeoma Ogbonna, lamented that galore youths who should beryllium productive successful their communities and the state, person been destroyed by cause maltreatment and drug-induced crimes.

He encouraged Olokoro youths and different young persons successful the authorities to shun illicit drugs depletion but clasp skills acquisition and different employment schemes designed by President Bola Tinubu and Governor Alex Otti.

In their speeches astatine the workshop, the accepted ruler of Okwu Olokoro, Eze Boniface Izuogu and the President General of Umuoji village, Nnamdi Nwosu regretted the activities of cause peddlers and metallic scrap deale...