AN OFFICIAL from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said Davao de Oro will be declared illegal drug free in 2022.
PDEA-Davao de Oro Provincial Officer Clodito Cañada revealed during a virtual presser that, as of writing, 49 out of 237 barangays in Davao de Oro will be declared cleared from illegal drugs next year.
“I have announced during the last conduct of the Provincial Peace and Order Council; I have already signified to our Governor that we will exert all our efforts in clearing the barangay next year,” Cañada said during the Virtual Illegal Drugs Symposium for the Youth.
He also revealed that 176 barangays are already drug-cleared, while 12 are drug-free.
“Actually last year, June to be exact, we dismantled a drug den in Poblacion [Nabunturan],” Cañada said.
He also revealed that their agency is still monitoring one more drug den in the province.
“For now, atoang sitwasyon nalang jud more on street-level pushing kay wala naman tay identified big time drug lord sa atong probinsiya,” the PDEA official said.
(For now, our situation is more on street-level pushing since we no longer have identified big time drug lords in the province.)
He added that big personalities on illegal drugs in the province are either dead, in prison, or voluntarily placed themselves in rehabilitation.
Although the province made rounds because of the latest buy-bust operation wherein 17 individuals were arrested with party drugs, Cañada said that only shabu and marijuana are being peddled in the province.
PDEA arrested 17 individuals for possession of P1.5 million worth of party drugs in a resort in Barangay Pindasan, Mabini, Davao de Oro on November 6.
The virtual symposium was initiated by the Provincial Youth Development Office, Provincial Information Office, and Philippine Information Agency.
During the session, Cañada asked the support of the youth leaders in lowering the demand for illegal drugs.
“Ang youth sector labi na ang SK (Sangguniang Kabataan), part sila sa Badac (Barangay Anti-Illegal Drugs Abuse Council). Didto pa lang, they can line up activities like this, na ma-educate nato ang mga constituents sa barangay,” he said. (With reports from PIA Davao)
(The youth sector, especially the SK, is part of Badac. There, they can line up activities like this to educate our constituents in the barangay.)
Davao de Oro to be declared ‘drug-free’ in 2022
Source: Sonstar
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