Category: Social

{“The entrepreneur owes me 25,000. And I need it for upkeep. I used to come here every day, work and go back home empty handed. I have a family to support. I need to buy soap. Why doesn’t he pay us?” That is how Nyiramana Béatrice who has been working as porter starts her lamentation, narrating to IGIHE correspondent. }

She has been a porter and among other casual workers that participated in the construction of a crafts center locally known as ‘Agakiriro’ launched recently in Kirehe sector of Kirehe district but the owner has failed to compensate them for their services. . She is now wallowing in need and lack. And she is angry and hungry. She is not alone.

Another worker, Juvenal Ntirivamunda, one of the masons, has said that it is now four months without getting paid.

“We are experiencing hardships since it is four months without getting paid. We have spent our efforts expecting to get our payments. Our families are starving,” he said.
The businessman who constructed the crafts center, Anatole Bizimana, however says he’s surprised to hear that some workers were not paid.

He told IGIHE that he was going to investigate the case to establish whether the people he delegated to pay workers instead misused the wages.

“I hand payments to those responsible for paying workers at the end of every month. Probably, some of them may have missed when others were getting paid. I am following up their case and will pay them shortly,” he said.

The deputy mayor in charge of social welfare in Kirehe district, Jacqueline Murekatete assured that they are going to follow up the matter until it is resolved.

{Traders from Nyagasambu market located in Rwamagana district have decried the poor hygiene conditions of the market yet they always contribute for the market’s cleaning.
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Cleaners paid to clean the market to collect garbage and waste which they then dump in the market proximities which repels away buyers.

Innocent Byiringiro, a vendor of clothes in the market, told IGIHE how the poor hygiene increases losses. “Buyers always get disgusted as they approach the market, complaining of a smelly environment. When it rains, a pond forms by. We wonder why such inaction remains yet we are always requested to pay cleaning fees,” he said.

Fiston Rwabukwisi, another vendor in the market also wondered why poor hygiene remains while they pay Rwf100 daily in addition to monthly taxes of Rwf 4000.
Some of them are worried poor hygiene will breed diseases. They requested local leaders to address the matter.

The mayor of Rwamagana district, Abdul Karim Uwizeyimana has said that the matter has persisted for long. However, he said that they are seeking how to address the matter as they await to modernize the market.

{Police in Nyamasheke district have arrested a 34-year old man identified as Jean Bosco Nkunzingoma after he was found in possession of a forged driver’s license.}

Nkunzingoma was arrested on January 16 following a tip off from the Motorcyclists who had seen him with a forged license.

According to the police, Nkunzingoma approached a group of commercial motorcyclists seeking for employment as a taxi-moto operator; they asked him if he had a driver’s license, which he showed to them.

However, motorists realized that his license was a forgery and immediately alerted the police that arrested him.

Upon his arrest, Nkunzingoma told the police that he bought the fake license at Rwf 140,000 in mid 2014 and pledged to collaborate with them in further investigations.

Nyamasheke District Police Commander, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Paul Byuma, said that “means to acquire a driver’s license have been eased; there should never be reasons for any person to use a forged one.”

The arrest of Nkunzingoma came a few weeks after police in the same district also arrested Ernest Sezerano early this month as he was driving with a fake license.

SSP Byuma pointed out that forged licenses can be easily detected and went on to warn anyone that could be holding such fake ones or involved in forging them.

“Issuing or holding a forged license is criminal and punishable by the law. Since the process to acquire a driving license has been made easier and brought closer to communities there is no reason of being involved in any malpractices.”

in March last year police conducted a crack down operation on forged licenses and arrested about 80 people in connection with using and producing forged driver’s license which successfully had stopped their circulation.

Article 609 of the Penal Code indicates that any person who forges or alters documents by forged signature or fingerprint, falsifying documents or signatures or impersonation, forging agreements, its provisions, obligations, discharged obligations shall be liable to a term of imprisonment ranging from five to seven years and a fine of Rwf300,000 to Rwf3 million.

Any person who knowingly uses a counterfeit document shall be liable to the same penalty as the person counterfeiting a document, according to the Penal code.

{The Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC) has reminded Rwandans to bury dead bodies in public cemeteries based on the law guiding the use of graveyards released in 2013.}

Residents in some parts of the country have been expressing challenges of lacking where to bury the dead, others saying cemeteries are far from their homes, requiring money for transport which at times is not readily available thus burying on their own land.

Some residents from Cyanzarwe and Rubavu sector of Rubavu district say that they have no public cemetery while residents from Gikomero sector of Gasabo district say that the public cemetery is too far from their residences.

Talking to IGIHE, the communications officer from the Ministry of Local Government, Ladislas Ngendahimana said that it is against the law to bury on one’s land.
“We remind them that it is prohibited to bury dead bodies in a place which is not earmarked or not a public cemetery,” he said.

He adds that Rwandans must adopt the law nº 11/2013 of 11/03/2013 published officially in May 2013 stating the usage of cemeteries.

“What we remind citizens is included in the law. When the law is published in the official gazette, it must be adopted,” said Ladislas Ngendahimana.

Commenting about citizens who say that public cemeteries are far, Ngendahimana said that the law spells that each sector must have a public cemetery.

“We have no cases of sectors lacking cemeteries. Again, every village can’t have a cemetery. Citizens must seek where the cemetery must be located in collaboration with local leaders,” he said.

The 27th article of this law indicates that a district leader can confirm to bury out of a public cemetery in case an individual or a family request it for clear reasons. The decision is supposed to be communicated to the minister regarded with public cemeteries and the president of district advising committee.

{Just because she doesn’t nag about them is no reason for you to think she doesn’t need them. There are certain things your girlfriend/wife expects from you but she would never ask for them.
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Below are 7 things your lady needs from you.

{{1. UNDIVIDED ATTENTION}}

She might never tell you this but not giving her this might cause your relationship more harm than good. She expects you to take time to focus on her when she’s talking to you. She always wants your undivided attention and she always knows when you just pretend and nod your head. To make your relationship work, learn to give her undivided attention.

{{2. RESPECT}}

Every man wants to be respected but how many men really respect the woman in their lives? She needs and deserves your respect. She knows the both of you might not agree on everything but she expects you to hear her out respectfully during a disagreement. Try to see things from her own point of view and don’t just act like she’s always talking nonsense. She wants you to listen to her ideas and give them serious consideration.

{{3. A NICE TREAT EVERY NOW AND THEN
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She might never nag about this too but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t expect a little indulgence every now and then. Don’t be too busy to give her a little royal treatment. Take her to the spa, a nice restaurant or anything you know she would enjoy. You shouldn’t wait until she nags about this before you give her a royal treatment. You don’t have to go broke giving her a nice treatment as there are several inexpensive treats you can give her.
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4. COMMON GOALS}}

I understand every one is unique and different but having a common goal keeps your relationship strong. She expects the both of you to have a common goal. This is necessary because setting and achieving goals keeps both partners engaged in the relationship.

{{5. BE HER BEST FRIEND}}

This is another need she has and won’t probably tell you. She understands you need to be with your buddies every now and then but she also expects you to be a best friend that she can talk to everyday, who opens up to her and who listens to her too.
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6. INTIMACY}}

It’s important men stop seeing intimacy in terms of sex. Women view intimacy differently and a woman sees intimacy as emotional closeness. She expects you to meet her need for intimacy by enjoying a hobby together with her, hugging her always, holding her hand and kissing her often without actually thinking of sex.

{{7. BE CONFIDENCE}}

Every woman expects her man to be confident and bold. Just because she wants you to be a confident man is no reason for you to confuse this to mean she wanting you to be overbearing and brutish. Several studies have shown that men who are confident without being arrogant are more attractive to women.

{Thousands of residents of Gatsibo District include the majority youth, converged at the Teachers Training Centre in Kabarore Sector to witness the public destruction of varied contrabands of illicit substances and to participate in the mass campaign against drug abuse.}

The exercise was also attended by the district Mayor, Richard Gasana and other local leaders, the DPC Supt. Eric Kabera and the Chief prosecutor of Nyagatare Intermediate court, Innocent Rukundo.

Among the destroyed narcotic drugs are 175 cartons of Zebra waragi and over 100 litres of Kanyanga, both illicit gin banned in Rwanda, and cannabis. The illicit substances were seized from sellers and users in the last three months.

The exercise was also attended by over 360 students, who completed senior six and currently attending civic education training – Itorero – in Kabarore.

Mayor Gasana commended the existing partnership between Police and residents, but added that the remaining gap continues to give way for drug dealers to continue with their unlawful business that leaves the youth as majority vulnerable.

“If your children are not victims it’s those of your neighbor and friend. We have seen children abandoning schools as addicts; some families are breaking up because one of the spouses spends family income on illicit drinks while women are assaulted by their husbands under the influence of these narcotic substances,” Gasana said.

“But the good thing is that the dealers could also be your neighbor, friend or even you have knowledge of who they are and where they are operating. By reporting them to police, you will be fighting theft, gender based violence and conflict, and promoting safety and security in the community,” he added.

Supt. Kabera thanked the residents for providing information that led to the seizure of the destroyed illicit substances, and arrest of individuals involved.

He urged them to be active agents of community policing in their communities by providing timely information on wrongdoers and suspicious people, tighten Irondo (night patrols) noting that most drug dealers hide under darkness to traffic narcotics like cannabis.

Prosecutor Rukundo took the residents through the laws that prohibit and punish drug dealers, abusers and even those who induce others like children to inhale the drugs.

Use and sell of illicit drugs are punishable under articles 594, 595 and 596 of the Rwanda penal code.

Making, selling and use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances attracts a prison sentence of up to five years and a fine of up to Rwf5 million under article 594 of the penal code.

Facilitating another person to use drugs attracts a penalty of up to three years in prison and a fine of Rwf500, 000 to Rwf5 million under article 595 while under article 596, inducing a child to use narcotic drugs is punishable with an imprisonment of between five and seven years.

{A woman, Nyirakanani Espérence, resident of Nyakabungo cell, Mpanga sector of Kirehe district has died after drinking sorghum beer suspected of having been poisonous. Other people who shared the same drink with the deceased have since experienced diarrhea and have been taken to health centers for further diagnosis and treatment. }

The husband of the deceased, Célestin Muhashyi, said that someone may have poisoned the local brew when they were in field since other people who tasted the same drink in the morning were not affected.

The executive secretary of Nyakabungo cell, Jean d’Amour Mupenzi has said that others who shared the same drink with the deceased headed for traditional healers over fears that they are getting bewitched.

Mupenzi said that he cannot confirm whether it was poison or not since unhygienic conditions can as well cause stomach upsets and food poisoning.