NOA CONVENES SECURITY SUMMIT , SEEKS VALUE REORIENTATION.




By Mike ALADENIKA. 




The Edo State Directorate of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) has called on all Nigerians, irrespective of social and other statuses to embrace a new and productive reorientaion thought process with a view to changing the current addiction which is now a national security concern.

In his welcome address at a Security Sensitization and Reorientaion program Against Political Thuggery, Kidnapping, Drug Addiction, Radicalization and Violent Extremism held in Benin City, NOA's acting Director, Austin Odile said the program is geared towards X-raying the root causes of the vices plaguing the Nation and proffering solutions to them. 
According to Austin Odile, these vices are capable of truncating our Social economic and political development as a nation, stressing that " drugs are often associated with virtually all anti-social behaviors bedeviling the country. It is the enabler and the trigger which propels people, mostly the youths to go into crimes and criminality."

The NOA acting Director said the program will help to "Educate, Sensitize and Mobilize Nigerians to shun drug abuse, adapt responsible attitude, reduce economic loss occasioned by vandalism".

In his presentation, Dr. Daniel Ofomegbe Ekhareafo identified illicit drug abuse as the root of all the challenges the nation may be facing now. 

Dr. Ekhareafo who was represented by Pius Ojemolon said most Nigerian youths who are involved in drug addiction have to get into other crimes to sustain their drug life which has brought the nation into disrepute among the committee of nations. 
The guest speaker also identified a handful of elite in Nigeria who have seized the nation's wealth, captured the state apparatus and used same against the country to the detriment of it's national growth. 

He then enjoined participants to endeavor to redirect the focal point of the various Orientation Agencies with a view to repositioning Nigeria for better. 

Participants were drawn from the Military, Paramilitary, and other Federal and state agencies with offices in Edo State. 
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