The Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, yesterday urged the state government to prosecute and dismiss any public officer engaging in hard and illicit drugs.
He explained such stiff measures become necessary to instill morality into public officers.
Sanusi said the measures will further deter those involved in drug abuse and peddling in the state.
The Kano Emirate Council, the monarch said, will not hesitate to dethrone any traditional leader found involved in drugs to demonstrate the seriousness with which the anti-drug war is being pursued in the state.
The Emir gave the advice during the distribution of empowerment packages to batches 1-3 of inmates of Kiru
Reformatory Institute, Kano sponsored for skills acquisition at the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) centre in Kano.
Sanusi, who noted with dismay that most of those involved in drug abuse in Kano are youths, assured that the Emirate Council would continue to work with government and other relevant authorities to check the negative trend.
He appealed to the government to enact a law that will curtail the rampant cases of divorce in the state, pointing out that the number of broken homes and the attendant consequences in the society are appalling.
“Government should come up with legislation, including imprisonment against those who divorce their wives arbitrarily, without genuine reasons – those who refuse to accord women their rights to education, health and secure living,” the Emir stated.
He also tasked the government to impose stiff penalties on people who remove their children from school under the pretext of giving their hands away in marriage, stressing that whoever abuses the rights of his wife and children must be punished summarily to deter others.
Governor Rabi’u Kwankwaso explained that the 129 inmates of the reformatory institute were sponsored for various skills acquisition programmes to enable them become self-reliant and reintegrated into the society as respectable people whose talents could be exploited for socio-economic development.
He assured that the government will not relent in its anti-drug war and in wider efforts to ensure a morally upright society.
Kwankwaso later presented licenses to 45 youths from the state sponsored for Cabin Crew training by the state government at the National College of Aviation Technology, Zaria.
Accompanied by Emir Kano and some public officials, the governor later destroyed confiscated, adulterated, expired and substandard drugs and products worth about N300 million at Farawa in the outskirts of Kano city. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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The EMIR should be ready to duplicate himself to work in the state's civil service, because and average malo likes to feel high. They even inhale adhesive and consumed a complete sachet of PARACETAUMOL to get HIGH.
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