The fight to decrease marijuana cultivation in the hills of Navosa will take close to five years to be successful.
Those are the views of Methodist Church of Fiji head of evangelism, Reverand Ili Vunisuwai who is leading the awareness program on the dangers of marijuana to the people of Navosa.
Vunisuwai said that they have been talking to the villagers of Navosa educating them on how they can still live a successful life and not to rely on marijuana for their source of income.
Reverand Vunisuwai added that the fruit of their work will take some time to achieve as they have map out a plan for 2010 to 2015.
The Fiji Police Force together with the other churches in the province of Navosa have earmarked the 18th of this month as the date where all of the chiefs, tikina reps and the villagers of Navosa will come together in a church service at the government station in Vatumali, Keiyasi, to show their support in working together with each other to fight the cultivation of marijuana in the hills of Navosa.
All 24 villages in the three districts of Noikoro, Nasikawa and Namataku had a lantern lit and placed inside their churches as a symbol of change and the war against marijuana farming.
Decrease in marijuana cultivation to take 5yrs
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