Lundayeh leaders working with police to tackle drug abuse
KOTA KINABALU: Lundayeh Sabah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LDSCCI) and Lundayeh Sabah Association (PELSA) will be working with the state police to tackle drug abuse among Lundayeh youths in the state.
In a recent meeting with Sabah Commissioner of Police Datuk Ramli Din, LDSCCI and PELSA had expressed their commitment to pursue, with the police, a specially designed Triple-P Youth Program (Promote, Partnership & Prevention) to combat subtly the worrying rise in drug abuse among Lundayeh youths in Sabah.
Statewide drug abuse among the Lundayeh youths in Sabah is increasing by the year, so resolving this drug abuse problem is long overdue and requires realistic collaborative Lundayeh-PDRM Strategic Solutions among all selected Lundayeh community leaders and police, said LDSCCI president Dr Julian Magian.
He said the Triple-P Youth Program would cover three main streams, namely Upstream Intervention Among Young Abusers (Promotion), Community-PDRM Strategic Partnership (Partnership), and Special Law Enforcement Acts (Prevention/Enforcement)
During the meeting Julian said Ramli disclosed that since he took up this post as the Sabah Police Commissioner in early 2017, Sabah recorded the second highest drug arrests in the country under section 39B after Kuala Lumpur.
Ramli, who is a criminology expert in Dangerous Drug Laws Enforcement, said that to combat the drug menace in Sabah, he would impose stiffer law enforcement to supersede ineffective practice under Drug Act Section 39A.
Moving forward to battle drug abuse and traffic in Sabah, “I will enforce the implementation of Special Preventive Measures Dangerous Drug Act 1952 Section 39C which will sanction PDRM to arrest these repeated drug abusers (more than two times) without charging them in court,” Ramli revealed to them and added that under Section 39C, those who are arrested will be punished with imprisonment not less than five years and whipping not less than three strokes.
Julian also said that Ramli wanted the police narcotics team in Sabah to work harder and he had given them a target of at least 400 arrests for drug offences including those under Section 39B this year.
In conjunction with this mission, Ramli is very pleased and praised the bold commitment taken by LDSCCI and PELSA to lead Lundayeh community leaders to combat drug abuse among their youths and will assign a special narcotics team to collaborate closely with Lundayeh community leaders to curb the dangerous drug abuse among Lundayeh youths in Sabah especially in Sipitang and Tenom.
“So far, we have advocated an Independent Intel-Commission (IIC) for this mission as guided tactfully by Datuk Ramli himself to the commission body. To improve the reach and participation of Lundayeh community to champion this mission; specific communitybased activities and strategic proposals have been drafted and will be finalised soon. We hope we will be able to present it to Datuk Ramli within three weeks from now for further action,” Julian added.
Triple-P Youth Program to battle worsening drug abuse among Lundayeh young generation in Sabah will be promoted intensively with PDRM over strategized workshops and seminars for strong collaboration with the neighbouring Lundayeh/ Lunbawang community leaders across Lawas/ Ba’Kalalan and Long Bawan (North Kalimantan), the Golden Triangle of Borneo.
The meeting was attended by Julian, Dr. Donny Daud (secretary general), Samson Kapong (treasury general) Prof. Dr Bilcher Bala (deputy secretary general), George Gaing (PELSA president) and Edna Radang (Pelsa secretary general).