Drug Abuse: Centre Rehabilitates 2,000 Clients In Bauchi

The Malam Kawu Youth Rehabilitation and Orphanage Centre, a Bauchi-based organisation, says it has rehabilitated 2,000 drug abusers since inception in 2002.
The Proprietor of the Centre, Malam Abdullahi Kawu made this known during his investiture and merit award presention conferred on him by a group, Rehabilitation and Orphanage Journalists (ROJOF), on yesterday n Bauchi.
He said that the Centre was helping people to lead a normal life after they have been ill, or when they have had a drug or alcohol problem.
The clients of the centre, he said, have been trained in vocational skills, literacy, Islamic Religious Knowledge and recitation of the Holy Qur’an, adding that 60 of them had momerised the Holy Book.
According to him, the centre also sponsored the education of 100 orphans and vulnerable children up to the secondary school level.
“We have sponsored 10 clients to tertiary education level and most of them had graduated from their schools.
“Also, we trained the clients on entrepreneurial skills including tailoring, carpentry, barbing, computer literacy and appreciation,” he said.
In his remarks, Malam Usman Abbas-Osku, ROJOF’s Chairman, said the award was in recognition of the positive contributions of the centre in the campaign against drug abuse and youth empowerment.
Abbas-Osku assured of the media continued support to make Bauchi a drug free state.