{"id":360536,"date":"2017-10-10T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360536"},"modified":"2017-10-10T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T10:00:29","slug":"tamale-metropolitan-assembly-moves-to-assist-young-wee-smokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/tamale-metropolitan-assembly-moves-to-assist-young-wee-smokers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamale Metropolitan Assembly moves to assist young ‘wee’ smokers"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly (TaMA) is on a vigorous operation to flush out marijuana smokers in the area, whiles offering assistance to them, especially the younger ones.<\/p>\n
A combined team of military and police led by the the Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Iddrisu Musah Superior on Monday stormed some forest reserves in the metropolis to smoke out suspected marijuana smokers.<\/p>\n
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The move forms part of the assembly’s agenda to ensure that social vices are reduced in the Tamale Metropolis which is one of the hotspots in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n
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Iddrisu Musah Superior at press briefing declared zero tolerance for marijuana smoking, commercial sex trade, and open defecation among other social vices.<\/p>\n
“It is against the law to smoke marijuana, and as a responsible lead officer of the metropolis, I have a responsibility to mobilize the rest of the metropolis to defeat this especially when we have the younger children engaging in it. Children between the ages of 14 and 17 are engaging in the use of marijuana and they are basically housed in the forest reserves.”<\/p>\n