Police, holidaymakers in Kayonza discuss on fighting drug abuse

{Police and students currently in their holidays in Kayonza District held a half-day meeting on December 3 in Mukarange Sector to discuss ways to reinforce the partnership in community policing and to fight drug abuse.}

While speaking to the students, AIP Eraste Niyibizi, the District Community Liaison Officer of Kayonza told the holidaymakers that the Rwanda National Police proactive concepts of community policing binds everyone in fighting and preventing crimes, which they should actively be part of.

“Through this community-based policing, Rwanda has become one of the safest places, but we still encounter challenges related to illicit drugs, and most of the cases we find involve your generation including students,” Niyibizi said.

“It’s both my role and yours to fight crimes, report wrongdoers like drug traffickers and users, but first be free from drugs and any wrongdoings and set an example,” he added.

The meeting came days after some of the holidaymakers and other youth in the district were arrested in drug-related crimes

Niyibizi took them through types of drugs that are common in Rwanda like cannabis, illicit gins like Kanyanga, Chief Waragi and locally made illicit brew; their consequences on users; the role of the youth in fighting drug abuse and the mode of timely information sharing.

One of the students, Emmanuel Ntambara proposed that such a meeting should be held regularly either with police officers and local leaders or among the youth themselves.

“This is not the only number of students from Kayonza, meaning that the more we pass on this message to many of our colleagues to more results we will get in fighting drug abuse,” Ntambara said.

His colleague, Jean Claude Sindikubwabo echoed the same message urging all the participants to be agents of change in their respective communities.

The students agreed to rich out to other students in the district to have another meeting next week in big number, to share ideas on how to fight drug abuse and criminality in general.

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