Unreported news
Youth Games
Wednesday next week, the opening ceremony of the 8th National Youth Games will take place in Asaba.
The venue is the Stephen Keshi stadium in Asaba.
The first casualty of the sport meet is education.
Ten primary and secondary schools will be closed for two weeks for the period of the games.
While some youths would be building their career in some sports, Delta youths will be deprived of two weeks of learning.
The Pond News understands that some of the school facilities would be used for the sports meet.
One thing is clear, Asaba stadium lacks the required facilities to host the games hence the closure of ten schools.
Another unfortunate angle is that those in charge of conducting the affairs of the games are mired in politics.
The absence of chairman of Delta State Sports Commission has made the committee rudderless despite the presence of two former chairmen of the commission.
The right thing should be done.
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Asaba drug syndicate 
Asaba is becoming notorious of harbouring young men selling hard drugs to clients with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and the police looking the other way.
Along the Okpanam road, Asaba where the National Association of Seadogs signboard stands is the very epic centre of the drug trade.
Both the police and NDLEA officials are very much aware of.
Most of the feeble attempts made by the police to arrest these young men, in a flash, they disappear into the gutters like rats.
Even those caught by the police are released in less than an hour.
The syndicate behind this drug trade use their influence to release their boys.
Furthermore in the major hotels in Asaba, there are also drug couriers who operate underground.
Hard drugs are the fertile environment for criminal gangs and prostitution.
That is the more reason Asaba is not secured despite the police narrative to the contrary.
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The ‘deve’ law 
It is good news that the state government has moved against illegal collection of fees at building sites across the state.
The levy or fees popularly called ‘deve,’ corruption of development levy.
Offenders are to spend two years in office or one million Naira fine.
It is a good one from the State House of Assembly.
But in our climes, laws are hardly implemented.
If the task of implementing the deve law is given to police, it might not succeed.
The state government should direct the local council to be responsible in implementing this law.
These deve officials can work hand in hand with the police to arrest the culprits.
If you leave the matter with property developers, the law is as good as dead.
Just as there are revenue collectors at the local council level, there should also be deve officials to put an to this social/economic menace.
