“We will be focusing on the anti – marijuana campaign and this will be an inter –agency collaborative effort”, RPOC Chairperson. Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong said.
Magalong tasked the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency to be on the lead and called for the creation of a Technical Working Group that will define the anti – marijuana campaign objectives and to prepare the needed project proposals so that government agencies that will be involved will have a funding basis.
Gumilab thanked the CRPOC for setting marijuana eradication as a priority. A perennial problem of Tinglayan and the province of Kalinga, it needs to be addressed through collaborative efforts among local government units and all government agencies from the regional up to the nation level.
Tinglayan Mayor Sacrament Gumilab outlines the importance of expanding Marijuana eradication beyond uprooting and bring a whole government approach to include addressing the root cause of MJ cultivation and bringing alternative livelihood to cultivators in remote upland communities. (CCD/PIA CAR)
In partnership with the Police Regional Office – Cordillera, 279 anti – illegal drug operations were conducted from February up to May 15 that led to the confiscation of around P486.36 million worth of illegal drugs, mostly marijuana plants and other byproducts.
There were also 27 drug personalities arrested and 29 cases filed, Sanchez said.
On the Barangay Drug Clearing Program, PDEA reported that out of the 1,177 barangays in the region, 57 are unaffected, 304 are drug – free and 751 are drug cleared. 65 drug- affected barangays are still up for clearing. (JDP/CCD-PIA CAR)
