Can DRUG be stopped?

After reading my Presidential Manifesto people ask me can strict penalties and actions prevent drug abuse? My answer is simple, YES and NO. My policy is Punishment and Prevention.

I believe we need tough and strict penalties to prevent drug from coming into the country and a wider approach in the process of rehabilitation and prevention.

I believe if we impose death sentence to the drug trafficker and really carryout death sentences by lethal injection for a period of 10 years, drug situation in the Maldives can be reversed. The suppliers will have enough fear in them that very few will ever attempt to traffic.

Death sentence is hard for a community such as ours to absorb and there will be limited pressure from Human Rights groups, but each country has a right to protect its citizens and its future generation. Today if we do not take tough decisions, face the problem squarely, tomorrow our children may not live to take that decision.

No matter how hard it is, we have no choice. If we want our children to be protected from drug, we should be ready to wage war against that.

Umar Naseer
President
IDP