Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has instructed the Minister for Policing and Drug Enforcement Ioane Naivalurua to look into the drug issue as a personal priority.
He highlighted this while responding to questions on fijivillage Straight Talk with Vijay Narayan about efforts to cut the drug supply, as drug kingpins have not yet been rounded up, and about drug rehabilitation centres.
He says the establishment of a drug rehabilitation centre in the Fiji Corrections Service establishment will go ahead very quickly. Rabuka says they have identified a former government quarters, which will be used as the initial part of the cooperation between the government, the police, and the Salvation Army.
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has instructed the Minister for Policing and Drug Enforcement Ioane Naivalurua to look into the drug issue as a personal priority.
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He says the facility will be used for those on the streets to get counselling and get them away from drugs.
When questioned about what he is doing in relation to the rot in the Police Force as there have been allegations that corruption is also making drugs thrive in Fiji, Rabuka says this is something the new Commissioner of Police and the new Minister of Police will have to sort out.
