Staff Reporter from Kishoreganj :
Kishoreganj District Administration and District Narcotics Control Office jointly arranged a colourful rally, discussion, drama marking the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illegal Trafficking on Tuesday.
A discussion meeting was held at local collectorate conference room on Tuesday.
ADC (Gen) Torafder Md. Akhter Jamil attended as Chief Guest while Assistant Director of Narcotics Control Habib Tohid Imam presided over .
It was addressed among others by Acting Police Super Shafiqul Islam as special guest, Senior Megistratee Abu Taher Sayeed, Jail Super Bazlur Rashid, Sanak President Professor M.A Gani, Senior Journalist Saiful Haque Mollah Dulu, District Press Club President Mostafa Kamal, CAB Secretary Mnour Hossain Rony, Md. Shahahan, Assistant Prof Samiul Hoque Mollah and Women leader Bilkis Begum.
Acting Police Super Shafiqul Islam said that the authorities will continue the drive until the drug trade is brought under control.
Drive is against drugs and not aimed at killing anyone.
Later, a colourful rally was brought out in the town marking the day.
BSS from Rajshahi adds: Political and social commitment is very important to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking to protect people and the young generation in particular.
Around 80 percent of the drug addicts are of the age group of 15 to 30 in the country. So, there is no alternative to adopt measures against drug abuse and its illicit trafficking.
At present the injecting drug users were creating grave concern among the government and non-government organizations and these people were at high HIV/AIDS risk.
The observation came at a post-rally discussion held at Nanking Dabar hall in observance of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking- 2018 yesterday.
District Administration and Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) jointly organized the programme discussing ways and means on how to free the city from the curse of abusing of drugs.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) supported the event. Commissioner of Rajshahi division Nur-Ur-Rahman and Deputy Inspector General of Police Khurshid Hossain addressed the discussion as chief and special guests respectively with Deputy Commissioner SM Abdul Kader in the chair.
Commissioner-in-Charge of RMP Suzayet Islam, Superintendent of Police Md Shahidullah and Additional Director of DNC Zafrullah Kazal spoke as special guests.
During his concept paper presentation, Lutfor Rahman, Deputy Director of DNC, said maladjustment, rising crime, health hazards, murder and suicide are the major consequences of abusing of drugs like heroin, phensidyle, ganja, pathedine and tranquilizers.
He said the law enforcing agencies alone are not capable of combating the social disease, but community participation coupled with family and social contribution is very important to this end.
Nur-Ur-Rahman said forging social resistance has become indispensable to uproot the crime as it’s being adjudged as a grave concern in the society.
He called for arranging trilateral meeting between Bangladesh, India and Myanmar so that drugs from India and Myanmar don’t enter Bangladesh as our country isn’t producer of drugs but being used as consumer as a whole.
He added that a drugs-free society must be built at any cost to protect people particularly the young generation from deadly aggression of the drugs.
Rahman urged the community people to extend their wholehearted cooperation towards law enforcing agencies with authentic information about the drugs traders and traffickers so that they could be brought to book.
He said drug trafficking is a social and criminal problem that has transformed in recent years into a major threat to the health and security of people and regions. Drug dependence is a disease, not a crime. The real criminals are the drug traffickers.
