The Plenary of the House of Representative on Thursday, September 19, 2024, mandated its committees on Drug and Rehabilitation, Health and Judiciary to review a bill seeking for the establishment of a National Rehabilitation Commission (NRC).
The House Press Bureau said Plenary’s decision was triggered by the submission of the bill by Montserrado County Electoral District #5 Representative Priscilla Cooper.
Representative Cooper said the use of drugs and other harmful substances have permeated every fabric of the society, posing serious threat to national security, peace, as well undermining the safety of Liberia’s Economy.
“Drugs have become a matter of national emergency. To establish an institution that will oversee all activities relating to the anti-additive drugs programs, rehabilitation of those who have become drug dependents, war victims, mentally derailed persons, persons with disabilities and such other persons as may be identified, will reduce the risk of criminality and assist the national government to provide the corporate social needs for victim of drugs or any other dangerous circumstances,” she said.
The National Rehabilitation Commission, when enacted, will carry on registration, rehabilitation and training of drug users, internally displaced, drug victims, persons with disabilities as in, care for senior citizens and those who are mentally derailed throughout the fifteen political subdivisions of Liberia.
Meanwhile, the Plenary voted to have the Committees on Drugs & Rehabilitation, Health and Judiciary to review the instrument and report after the 2nd Quarter break.
