Reject drugs, violence – Gov Yusuf tells Kano youths

Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has urged youths successful the authorities to cull cause abuse, unit and transgression activities, saying their aboriginal indispensable not beryllium surrendered to specified acts.
The politician made the telephone connected Thursday successful Kano portion addressing residents during the solemnisation of Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary astatine the Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium.

He said the authorities would fortify rehabilitation and skills improvement programmes to assistance youths physique productive lives.

“Our connection to our younker is clear: your aboriginal indispensable not beryllium surrendered to drugs, unit oregon criminality,” the politician said.

He said the authorities authorities had taken steps to tackle cause maltreatment and illicit trafficking done the Kano State Multi-Agency Task Force connected Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, established successful July.

According to him, the task unit recorded much than 380 arrests and implicit 230 convictions wrong its archetypal 2 months of operation, portion besides dismantling cause joints and transgression hideouts crossed the state.

Yusuf said the combat against transgression could not be...