Kumasi, Nov 8, GNA - Professor Daniel Buor, Provost of the College of Art and Social Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called on social scientists to map out strategies to address the profusion of social problems such as armed robbery and the drug menace engulfing the nation.

He said the role of the social scientist that is crucial in the issues of national socio-economic development could not be left out in the country's efforts to find a panacea to societal vices as corruption, graft, poverty and abuse of human rights.

Prof Buor, who was speaking at the launch of the 35th Social Sciences Society Week at the KNUST, said contributions of social scientists in the area of human resource capacity building in various aspects of the economy was very much appreciated since the inception of the facility about 35 years ago.

He, however, stressed that products of the college now in key positions both in the country and the international community needed to go an extra mile since the major problem facing the country now was not lack of human and material resources but lack of integrity. This is manifested in corruption, drug trafficking and abuse, promiscuity, organised crime and graft.

Mr Samuel Offei Nartey, President of the Faculty of Industrial Art, called on the government to help resource the various departments of the College to enhance teaching and learning.