Suspended Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency Boss has vowed to champion the cause of ending drug addiction in the country and return victims to normal lives.
Col. Abraham Kromah blamed the emerging drug problems to the work of drug traffickers and called on the public to join him in the fight to end the practice nationwide.
The LDEA suspended Boss also stressed the need for the International communities and humanitarian group operating in the country to help Liberian government overcome the problem and make the country a drug free society.
Col. Kromah launched an urgent appeal to the public to end the discrimination of victims and explore a better way of dealing with addicts for the benefit of society.
He maintained that confrontation with the group will undermine efforts in curtailing the practice among the youths, who otherwise will be exposed to wider drugs consumption.
Speaking Wednesday when he tours the Center Street Cemetery in Central Monrovia where hundreds have sought refuge to escape harassment by the Police, the renounced Security Expert appealed to parents to get closer to their drug affected children with word of encouragement instead of engaging into confrontation with them.
Col. Kromah urged the estimated one thousand drugs victims living in the decommissioned cemetery, to abandon the use of narcotic substances and prepare themselves for better future through vocational training and other disciplines.
He maintained that continues used of drugs is having negative effect on their mental and physical health, adding that is about time victims see reasons to stop the practice.
During the tour which coincided with Kromah birthday, the suspended LDEA chief dined with drug affected youths in celebration and promised to stand by the government in finding solution to their problem.
Kromah also appealed to government to increase budgetary allotment for the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency to effectively fight drug trafficking in the country.
Responding a female member of the group, identified as Princess David lauded the suspended LDEA Boss for the concern he continues to shows for drugs affected youths roaming in the streets of Monrovia.
Madam David pointed out that while others have turned their back on them, Kromah is always showing them love and providing them food and other items despite the stigma they carry as drug addicts.
The victim noted that she and her other drugs users are tired of the physical abuse they encounter on daily basis and called on the government of President Joseph Nyumah Boakai to provide the needed funding for their rehabilitation.
The tour took Kromah and his team to over fifty others hideouts for Zogoes around Monrovia.