Around
200 residents of Piagapo town led by municipal mayor Ali Sumandar, municipal
councilors and barangay officials attended the first municipal
anti-illegal drug awareness campaign of the Lanao del Sur provincial government.
The drug awareness municipal
roll-out conducted in cooperation with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)
and the Philippine National Police (PNP) aims to support the war against
illegal drugs of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
It is an offshoot of the Provincial
Anti-Drug Awareness Campaign held last year in Marawi City to help law
enforcers fight drug addiction through education and information dissemination
in the grassroots level.
Provincial Governor Bedjoria Soraya
Alonto Adiong ordered the Provincial Information Office to conduct the program
in the 39 municipalities of the province to ensure that everyone in the
communities will know the harmful effects of dangerous drugs and the punishment
of using and selling them.
Participants of the symposium were
oriented on the ill effects of drug addiction, the legal consequences of being
involved in illegal drugs activities, and the role of barangay officials in
eradicating this ill menace of society.
PDEA-ARMM Regional Director Bryan
Babang and his officers, Malou Camit and Marlon Santos, served as the resource
speakers of the symposium.
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