Stakeholders yesterday drubbed government’s past efforts to combat the drug trade, saying there has been a misdirected emphasis on penalising users instead of rehabilitating them and a failure to go after the “big fish” responsible for the supply.
Only a handful of persons gathered at the Umana Yana yesterday after the government advertised for a public discourse on the in-the-works National Drug Strategy Master Plan 2013 to 2017 and many of them were filled with doubt. And with the absence of officials that are involved in the formulation of the plan, anger was also a common sentiment among the members of the public who turned up.
Almost in a chorus, those present said that the PPP/C administration has failed to deliver the strategies promised in earlier plans
