THE National Orientation Agency (NOA), Delta State Directorate, in conjunction with the Foundation for Development and Community Engagement (FDCE), has concluded plans for a roundtable among stakeholders to deliberate on the best strategy to tackle drug scourge among youths in Warri and other parts of the state.
Director of the agency, Ivan Okoro, at a chat with journalists in Asaba, said the move was in pursuant of the statutory mandate handed the agency to stem drug abuse in the country.
Okoro, who quoted Section 13 (1) of the National Orientation Agency Act (Amendment) Bill, 2016, stated that the core aim of the agency includes to cooperate with the federal, state and local government in the eradication of anti-social behaviours of youth such as street trading (hawking), urinating along streets across the nation, cultism, prostitution, exam malpractices and drug abuse.
He said the…
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