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REFORMATION ---
PDEA-BARMM Deputy Director Marlon Santos speaks during the opening of Balay
Silangan Reformation and Treatment Center for Drug Law Offenders in Sultan
Kudarat, Maguindanao last March 22. (Photo by PDEA-BARMM)
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Mayor
Shameem Mastura of Sultan Kudarat and PDEA-BARMM Deputy Regional Director
Marlon Santos led the formal opening of the facility.
Santos
said programs in the “Balay Silangan” will be implemented in three phases that
include the explanation and dissemination of Republic Act 9165 (Comprehensive
Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002) and other related laws to former drug personalities.
The
second phase includes the development of personal and life skills of the
“reformists,” while the third and final stage focuses on livelihood programs to
prepare former drug dependents in their return to the mainstream society.
Sultan
Kudarat has recorded 951 drug surrenderers during the implementation of the
police “Oplan Tokhang” (knock-appeal) for the past two years.
Santos
said of the 951 former drug personalities, 30 will take the “first step” in the
life-changing process into becoming productive, self-sufficient, and law
abiding citizens.
“The
reformatory process is the government’s post-anti-drug operation program to
give chance to drug personalities take once more the right path to life,” he
said in an interview last March 23.
Santos
said the reformation center will provide various livelihood training skills
that include electrical wiring, welding, food production/processing, driving,
and machinery operating programs, among others.
The
program is also integrated with values formation and social norms that will
prepare them for their reintegration to the society. (Edwin Fernandez, PNA - Cotabato)
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