Author: IGIHE

Self-administered justice means the unlawful retaliation for an injustice that the affected person carries out himself.

The call was made on Thursday after residents of Mbagabaga caught and clobbered a man suspected to be a thief who later died.

This prompted the police and local leaders to meet up with residents to remind them that self administered justice is a criminal punishable by law.

During the meeting Huye District Mayor, Eugene Muzuka advised residents to always forward their grievances to grassroots leaders and Police to help settle them rather than resorting to self administer justice that would lead them to jail.

“A crime can’t be rectified by a crime. The justice sector is there to ensure that when a crime is committed, professionals and accredited institutions handle it appropriately. When you take matters in your own hands, you will have committed a crime and you will be prosecuted,” Muzuka advised. .

He added that; “We acknowledge the fact that, you have to keep watching over your properties but if suspects are identified or caught, they should be reported or handed over to police for proper course of action.”

The District Community Liaison Officer Inspector of Police (IP), Mucyo Rukundo, told residents that; “Everyone has a chance and a right to defend himself or herself in courts of law.”

“Being within the limits of the law means that even when you are wronged, you have no right to take matters in your own hands to administer self justice; this is the duty of judicial institutions,” he emphasized.

He cited articles 148 and 151 of the Rwandan penal code, on assault that causes bodily injuries or death, which also applies to those who take matters in their own hands, specifying a life imprisonment in case death.

“When you witness or suspect anything unlawful, just call the police,” he said.
{{Source: RNP News}}

Haq added that at least five Congolese soldiers were also killed in Thursday’s attack in North Kivu province.

“It’s a very huge attack, certainly the worst in recent memory,” Haq said, adding that the dead were mainly from the Tanzanian contingent.

The UN peacekeeping mission in DR Congo is the largest and most expensive in the World and is aimed at calming a number of armed groups in the vast, mineral-rich Central African nation.

Earlier, UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said he was “outraged” by the incident.

Radio Okapi, which is linked to the peacekeeping mission known as MONUSCO, reported that peacekeepers on Thursday repelled an attack by fighters with the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group on a UN base in the Beni area. The base is home to the peacekeeping mission’s rapid intervention force, which has a rare mandate to go on the offensive.

Citing military sources, the radio station said fighting lasted four hours.

RCS officials were speaking yesterday to the media while briefing them about the institution’s achievements.

The Chief Operations Officer at RCS, CIP Alex Murenzi said that some of escapees were captured immediately after breaking prisons and others were captured from outside the country.

“In partnership with different institutions we try our best to recapture them. We have an example of one genocide convict who was recaptured from outside the country under partnership with Interpol,” he explained.

The Commissioner General for RCS, CGP George Rwigamba said that among these who are yet to be recaptured include recent Nyanza Prisonescapees, former journalist Cassien Ntamuhanga, Sibomana Kirege and Theogene Batambirije.

Though RCS claims shortage of officers, officials said that it is not the cause behind escaping.

“We get challenged when it comes to going in courts and hospital among other services, when six inmates are escorted by one officer to the hospital while they are seeking different services; it is difficult to manage their movements. That is the where they escape from but we also pay much attention,” he said.

According to RCS Rwandan prisons accommodate 64,757 inmates with 1694 RCS officers.

Ngirente was speaking Thursday during the opening of the 12th National Children’s Summit in Kigali.

The summit is being held under the theme ‘Positive Parenting: Foundation of the Rwanda we want’.

Premier said that whoever wishes for societal development should value children . He called on parents, teachers, leaders and Rwandan community to remember their duties on positive parenting urging them to collaborate in seeking solutions for remaining problems that children still face.

“All Rwandans, we are required to collaborate so that we find good and sustainable solutions for problems that hamper our children’s progress,” he said.

“Some of those problems include unwanted pregnancies, school dropouts, child labor and drugs. We should also remember children that do not seat for national examinations over different challenges and find ways of bringing them on board,” he said.

In 2016, 17500 girls between the ages of 16-19 carried unwanted pregnancies, dropping out from schools.

Ngirente reminded children that they are future parents of the country who have responsibilities to advance their parents’ achievements as well as implementing their own ideas.

The summit brings together 488 representatives of children from all districts and sectors of the country, representatives of children with disabilities, refugee children representatives and partner institutions working on child rights protection.

The Minister for Family and Gender Promotion, Esperance Nyirasafari urged children to continue promoting their rights calling them to participate in good parenting.

“As children, you should advise one another on avoiding bad behaviors that could result in negative effects,” she said.

AngeKarasira, the representative of children forum said that they are ready to provide their contribution in constructing the nation they want.

In a written statement, Alfred Kenneth Duku, the Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports for Yei River State, said the MP was in the company of other people making consultations as part of the national dialogue for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda.

He said the incident occured around 7pm on Wednesday.

{{No arrests}}

No rebel group that operates along the Uganda-South Sudan border has claimed responsibility.

Ugandan police said a cartridge was seized from the scene of the shooting but no arrests have been made yet.

Mr Gale served in the State Transitional Legislative Assembly as the chairperson for Members’ Affairs, Gender and Human Rights Committee.

Last week, two South Sudanese were beheaded in Moyo, Ugandan.

The government of South Sudan has formed a National Peace Committee that has been regularly visiting refugee camps in northern Uganda in an effort to reach an agreement for repatriation.

The truth is some of us know the importance of feeding well enough, yet we starve either because we want to fit into certain clothing or certain class of society.

Eating little or no food can have adverse effects on our bodies in the long and short run, but before things get to ‘worse’, they would have started somewhere.
Here are some of those things you can suffer from starving.

{{Hunger}}

Oh well, I’m not sure I need to explain much here. Hunger is a consequence of not eating at all or enough food. When you’re hungry, your body is trying to tell you something. Ignoring the information could lead to disaster. That’s minus the discomfort you’ll experience too.

{{Risk of diabetes}}

Hunger brings fatigue and loss of energy. When you lack those, you quickly want to boost yourself, and this leads to a craving for sugar and like foods. The more sugar you consume, the likelier the level of sugar in your system, and that’s dangerous for your health.

{{You become less appealing}}

The more you starve, the more you lose weight, and the more you lose weight, the less you’re likely to fit into your clothing. So you either wear trashy stuffs or you resort to wearing skinny clothing. However you look at it, you’ll lose massive weight, and nobody ever looks attractive in that state.

{{You’ll fall ill often}}

One of the major signs of an under-eating person is they catch the cold quite easily. The reason is because the body needs a certain amount of energy to stay heated. Without enough food, that can’t happen.

{{Constipation}}

Constipation refers to bowel movements that are infrequent or hard to pass. Dieting and eating too little food can cause constipation due to a slowed metabolic rate.

{{Hair loss}}

A lot of people lose hair daily. However, you may lose way more than normal when you do not eat well enough. This is a result of a deficiency of nutrients in the body.

Do not let anybody tell you different. Eating good food is important if you want to stay alive and healthy.

While starvation isn’t the right way to go, there should be no reason to stuff your stomach with too much food, as that too has its own consequences.
{{Source: elcrema.com}}

The prize is presented annually by Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest dedicated peace-building organization, to honor outstanding accomplishments in conflict resolution and peace-building.

Mudenge received the award on November 30, 2017, in New York City in the United States of America.

Mudenge is a former refugee and a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. He founded the Inyenyeri Itazima Association based in Rubavu District with the aim of spreading forgiveness, promoting reconciliation, and creating dialogue.

Through public events and discussions that bring together victims and perpetrators, Mudenge has made an invaluable contribution to fostering peace and unity in post-conflict Rwanda. The Inyenyeri Itazima Association and Search for Common Ground have been working in partnership over the past years to promote reconciliation in Rwanda.

The Common Ground Awards recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions toward bridging divides between people, finding solutions to seemingly intractable problems, and providing inspiration and hope where often there was none.

In addition to Mudenge, this year’s Awardees include Daniel Lubetzky, founder and CEO of Kind Snacks, who established several peace initiatives in the US and the Holy Lands; Arno Michaelis and Pardeep Kaleka, the founders of Serve 2 Unite, an American organization fighting against hatred; Fatima Ezzahra Benoughazi, a leading voice of youth and peace-building in Morocco; and Sylvie Mutwambaka Mirindi, the founder of the Mamans Sensibilisateurs, an organization empowering women and fighting domestic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

People scooped the same award in the past include, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the late US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, Olympian and Right to Play founder Johan Olav Koss and boxing great Muhammed Ali, as well as individuals building peace in their communities around the world.