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.

Methodist Church of Fiji, Secretary of Evangelism, Reverand Ili Vunisuwai said they have shifted the date from this Thursday to next Friday as the torch relay which is to create awareness on the dangers of the drug is still in the hills of Nausori highlands and will take a week to make its trip to Keiyasi.

In the last 14 months, the police drug team has destroyed more than 20 farms in the Navosa province and last week they uprooted more than 1,900 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of about $1.5million.

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.