Permanent office for CADAC proposed
THE Dagupan City government was urged to create a permanent office that will implement plans and activities of the City Anti-Drug Abuse Council (CADAC) in a bid to strengthen the campaign against drug abuse and hasten the realization of the goal to establish a ‘Drug-free Dagupan’.
The call was made by members of non-government organizations, heads of universities and colleges and schools during the first meeting of the reorganised City Anti-Drug Abuse Council presided over by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez at CSI Stadia on August 2.
Lawyer Lemuel Astadan, a member of the CADAC, asked the city government and the members of the city council represented by Councilors Jose Netu Tamayo, chairman Committee on Peace and Order and Marcelino Fernandez, Liga ng mga Barangay president, to enact an ordinance that will create a permanent office for CADAC to implement anti-drug abuse programs in the city.
“It is important that we focus our efforts on anti-drug abuse in one office that will be responsible in implementing the policies being adopted by CADAC and in coordinating efforts of the different sectors so that we will have a single line of program in our war against drug,” said Astadan.
He said it is important for the city to have a continuing program on anti-drugs regardless on who is the President of the Philippines and the city mayor of Dagupan.
Astadan said a permanent office will ensure the continuation of the city’s program on anti-drugs regardless on who will be the next president or the next city mayor because office will be with administrative and operational powers.
“Sila yung magco-coordinate ng mga advocacies of the different sectors, with the police and with the judicial bodies. In that, we can see that the war against drugs in our city will be centralized,” said Astadan.
Astadan, along with the 7th Day Adventist, is an advocate of the campaign for SAD Free Dagupan that wages war against smoking, alcohol and drugs.
“We believe that once a child learns how to smoke and drink liquor, the tendency is for the child to try drugs. This is what we want to prevent as part of our advocacy,” Astadan stated.
Officials of colleges and universities proposed the holding of a summit for high school and college students even as the Church that promised to help provide alternative livelihood programs for drug pushers, urged the city to conduct more seminars to “touch their souls to help them keep away from drugs”. (JCB_CIO)
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