The Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV) says it is developing modules for sporting games to engage youths, check cultism, substance abuse and other vices.
National Coordinator of POCACOV, CSP Ebere Amaraizu, disclosed this on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu.
Amaraizu said the modules would make for effective engagement and deployment of POCACOV campaign in neighbourhoods nationwide, using the active-based approach of sporting games.
He said the modules would be developed in such games as chess, boxing, cycling, mini-football, 6-Aside and taekwondo, amongst others.
According to him, message content of POCACOV, which is ‘Say no to cultism, substance and drug abuse, violent behaviour and other vices’, will be built around the modules.
He said: “The modules of engagement are for youth value re-orientation, self-discovery and strategic leadership to cut across all sectors of youth population in the country.
“We are already working with different stakeholders and galvanising their support for the campaign.
“The activity is aimed at giving platforms to our young minds in the neighbourhoods and communities to discover themselves.
“This will also help to fill the yawning gap in youth self-discovery and inspire them to see themselves as the future champions.
“It will deepen POCACOV approach and quest to cut the conveyor belt and supply chain of cultism, substance and drug abuse, violent behaviour and other vices for a safe, peaceful and secured community.”
Amaraizu, who is also the South-East Director of National Nationwide League One, said that sports is globally acknowledged as potential tools for national and economic development with core values, such as fair-play, social justice and discipline.
POCACOV is a community-driven programme and public relations tool of the Nigeria Police working with different stakeholders to save children and youths from cultism and other vices.