Anambra: Police embark on awareness campaign against cultism, child molestation

THE Anambra Police Command has embarked on sensitisation campaign against cultism, drug abuse and child molestation.

Speaking during the exercise at Regina Pacis Model Secondary School Onitsha, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Haruna Mohammed described the acts as social problems which affects a significant number of people.

The public enlightenment programme initiated by Anambra state Police command attracted large crowd as the hall of the Regina Pacis Model Secondary School was filled to the brim with students, teachers and management staff of the school.

While giving a lecture on the issues of child molestation, drug abuse and cultism, SP Mohammed advised the students to obey their parents, teachers as well as their religious leaders.

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He gave safety and security tips to the students assuring them that the police is always there to prevent people who have the intention to commit crime as well as enthrench law and order.

The PPRO disclosed that the police chose the school to kick start its sensitisation campaign because of its achievement at the World Technovation Challenge.

In a remark, Director, Regina Pacis Model Secondary Secondary, Rev Fr Paschal Okonkwo, thanked the police for the content of the programme and for choosing their school, noting that it will spur them to higher pedestal in their educational pursuit and to maintain the prestige and status they are known for.

In a vote of thanks, the Senior Prefect of the school, Miss Mmesoma Obidigwe, who thanked God for making the event a reality, promised to inculcate what they were taught to others, and added that the sky is only their starting point.