Speaking to IGIHE, RCS spokesperson, CIP Hillary Sengabo said that all the dismissed officers had deserted service at different times between 2016 and 2017.
“The reason behind dismissing them was to deserting their jobs. When an officer deserts, the punishment is to be sacked unless there were more genuine reason behind,” he said.
The law says that they consider RCS officer to be disserted when they spend seven days without reporting to work and without informing their commandant.
Last year, RCS also had sacked 52 officers including two Assistants Inspector of Prison (AIP) over misconducts.
They are not badly arguing nor are they engaging in quarrels. It is rather a constructive community debate that brings together about 200 people in Gicumbi District’s Kaniga Sector close to the Ugandan border.
Held at the sector’s offices this Tuesday afternoon, the debate was one of the regular community events the journalists network PAX PRESS organises countrywide in collaboration with different partners on various issues. Funded by the rights-based program of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), citizens discussed briefly the new law governing family relationship.
The amended Persons and Family Bill passed in August 2016 with the main change being the fact that now both spouses – man and woman – are jointly responsible for the management of the household, including moral and material support as well as its maintenance. “One of the spouses performs those duties alone, if the other spouse is unable to do so. In case of a disagreement, competent authorities take decision,” reads part of article 209.
According to residents and local authorities, polygamous marriages are the root causes for most of the household-based violence in Kaniga Sector. Even though the debate made clear, that young couples live in monogamous relationships and marriages, family problems are still occurring among people aged above 50 years.
The lively debate illustrated, that some men leave their Rwandan wives and marry another woman in Uganda, which is less than a mile away for some of Kaniga residents. In the sector are cases of man who have up to eight wives and numerous children with them. Yet the Constitution of Rwanda recognises only a civil monogamous marriage between a man and a woman as a marital union.
Justus Bakesigaki, 61, admits to be married to two wives, but the number of his wives changes between three and up to five as his second wife and one of his daughters raise their voices during the debate. “I rotate between my two wives and feel good with that. I do make time for each of them and don’t see why it should be a problem,” expresses Bakesigaki.
Nyiramirimo, his second wife and mother of two of his children, opposes him saying that the husband has failed to support all of his wives and children. She herself struggles to cater for her children. “I urge monogamous men to avoid getting a second wife. From my experience I also advise women to never accept a married man. He won’t make you happy,” says Nyiramirimo.
Janet Asiimwe, daughter of Bakesigaki, says “My husband is married only to me and I don’t want him to get a second wife. It creates conflicts among wives and hampers family’s prosperity.”
Chantal Tukahirwa, mother of seven, whose husband has left her seven years ago to marry another woman in Uganda, says her conflicts with husband reached a deadlock. “My husband fell in love with a wealthy lady and tried to marry her. He chased me from our matrimonial home when I refused, but I returned a year later after authorities ruled in my favour. That decision angered my husband, so he left with that woman to Uganda”, tells Tukahirwa, who still loves her husband. “Since he is gone, our life is miserable”, she resumes.
Jean Marie Vianney Bangirana, Executive Secretary of Kaniga Sector, says polygamy is decreasing in the community due to government and partners’ sensitisation. “With polygamy come many consequences: A polygamous man will not cater well for the family, children in such families lack education. Above all, there are often conflicts among the wives over the care and resource distribution of the joint husband”, he explains in the gathering.
According to the Executive Secretary, at least 50 households in the sector are known for having conflicts mainly resulting from polygamy and drug abuse. Together with police and army forces, he is fighting against drug abuse and his office offers mediation to solving issues in conflicting families.
Rugege was speaking yesterday while presiding over the swearing-in of new Chairperson for Rwanda Law Reform Commission, Aimable Havugiyaremye and Vice-chairperson Beata Mukeshimana.
He said that during reforms, the commission needs to carry out research by determining laws which do not respond to people’s problems.
“Conducting research on existing and new laws is necessary. When there is no research conducted on existing laws, they become inapplicable and obsolete. Others which are established without research do not respond to people’s problems but instead cause problems,” he said.
“This is the rationale behind incessant reforms. When there is proper research, they establish laws that solve people’s problems sustainably” he added,
He urged the commission to write laws in a language that is easy to understand.
“Laws should be written in understandable language. This is what the country expects from you. You should make sure that you do not publish laws that confuse users,” he urged them.
Havugimana said that the commission will conduct research on existing laws to identify whether they are still relevant.
Tigo Yanjye was launched by Tigo Rwanda Chief Executive Officer, Philip Amoateng, during a press briefing at the Tigo Rwanda corporate headquarters in Kigali.
In announcing the Tigo Yanjye campaign, Amoateng unveiled three new products namely Imirongo Yose, Isanzure Packs and the Africa Packs.
Imirongo Yose all-network packs allows Tigo customers to call other mobile networks in Rwanda at the same price as calling Tigo-Tigo. The Imirongo Yose packs, which will range from Rwf100 per day to Rrw500 per week, allows customers to call all mobile networks for up to 35 minutes per week.
In addition, Imirongo Yose customers will be able to send 35 SMS a week respectively while also enjoying 35 MBs of data a week.
With the new Africa Packs, calls to Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan will cost as low as Rrw56 per minute, the lowest tariff on the market today.
Isanzure Packs allow customers to enjoy customers the data, SMS and calling resources that are tailored to their own needs. With Isanzure Packs, customers will be able to call more and longer.
“Tigo Rwanda is committed to constantly satisfying its customers by meeting and exceeding their expectations. We set out to provide affordable and accessible mobile services everywhere so that our subscribers can stay in touch with their loved ones and facilitate business by reducing the costs of communication and the cost of doing business” Amoateng said
“We shall be unveiling more products that go beyond just calls and Internet. We are already piloting a breakthrough health insurance product that we will fully roll out under the Tigo Yanjye umbrella,” Amoateng added.
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HIIT is simply a training technique in which you give all-out, one hundred percent effort through quick, intense bursts of exercise, followed by short, and sometimes active recovery periods. By that, I mean you perform a certain exercise so fast for a certain period of time, then rest and then perform the next exercise, hard and fast and rest and continue till the last one. That way HIIT burns more fat and in less time.
Your HIIT workout can be between 4 minutes to 15 minutes, anything longer could increase your risk of injuries.
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Skipping is another great fat burner you should be trying out. In fact 10 minutes of skipping can burn just about the same or more fat as a 45-minute run.
You can start your day with a 10-minute skipping session, but if you want better results, you can go on for 20 minutes.
Note: For Women: when trying out the skipping exercise, it is important to wear the right sportswear for workouts.
Skipping tends put a strain on your breasts and could cause them to sag prematurely. The best way to counter this effect is to wear the right sportswear.
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Another quick fat burner, but unlike the others, it shouldn’t take more than 3 minutes.
Jumping jacks is a vigorous cardiovascular exercise which burns fat like a fire because of its high intensity and the large number of calories that are burned.
You can start your day with a 3-minute jumping jacks session which should be about 100-200 jumps. You can decide to take it even further, by doing 2-3 sets.
Note: For Women, when trying out the jumping jacks exercise, it is important to wear the right sportswear for workouts, because like skipping, they can put your breasts under intense stress, and cause early sagging.
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Stair sprints (running up and down the stairs) is another great fat burner which can be incorporated into your HIIT workout or done as a separate exercise.
This exercise could require more engagement and focus although it provides more benefits (apart from burning fat really fast) compared to the other two.
You can start with a 5 to 10 minute workout and build your way up to at least 30 minutes.
But be careful, this exercise can turn dangerous if done wrongly.
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The new limit will not apply to tweets written in Japanese, Chinese and Korean which can convey more information in a single character.
The move follows a trial among a small group of users which started in September in response to criticism that it was not easy enough to tweet.
The change is part of Twitter’s plan to attract new users and increase growth.
Twitter brevity
During the test, only 5% of tweets sent were longer than 140 characters and only 2% more than 190, the social media site said in a blog post.
But those who did use the longer tweets, got more followers, more engagement and spent more time on the site, it added.
“During the first few days of the test, many people tweeted the full 280 limit because it was new and novel, but soon after behaviour normalised,” wrote Aliza Rosen, Twitter’s product manager.
“We saw when people needed to use more than 140 characters, they tweeted more easily and more often. But importantly, people tweeted below 140 most of the time and the brevity of Twitter remained.”
According to Twitter, 9% of tweets in English hit the character limits.
“This reflects the challenge of fitting a thought into a tweet, often resulting in lots of time spent editing and even at times abandoning tweets before sending,” Ms Rosen said.
Increasing the character limit should not affect people’s experience on the site, she added.
“We – and many of you – were concerned that timelines may fill up with 280-character tweets, and people with the new limit would always use up the whole space. But that didn’t happen,”
When the change was announced, many criticised it, pointing out changes they would rather see, such as a crackdown on hate crime and bots, and the introduction of a chronological timeline and edit function.
The site currently has 330 million active users. This compares with 800 million for Instagram and more than 2 billion users for Facebook.
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Under the partnership, Police will contribute in sustaining existing forests and plant agro-forests on the surface of 22,000 hectares and new forests on 5000 hectares in different parts of the country.
Speaking at the event, the Minister of Justice, Johnston Busingye said that the partnership was necessary as a way to improve forestry cover in the country.
“This is a good move to planting and sustaining existing forests. When you are travelling from different parts of the country, you realize that something is missing on our mountains; our country has many eye attraction features but it lacks enough tree cover,” he said.
The Minister of Land and Forestry, FrancineTumushime said the partnership came in time of need as the country and the World in general is implementing resilient efforts towards climate change.
“This is a partnership needed in all country’s institutions. Protecting soil from erosion and planting trees are among measures to mitigaet climate change effects,” she said.
The Government targets to have 30% of the surface of the country planted with trees by 2020.
The long week workshop started on Monday will engage subject matter experts in early childhood development (ECD) and communication, academia, media, animators, illustrators, graphic designers, singers, and people with disabilities to create age-appropriate and child-friendly content and materials in their respective fields.
Early childhood development (ECD) is an important area of focus. Evidence shows that 80% of a child’s brain develops between the ages of 0 and 3 years.
The Government of Rwanda have demonstrated the commitment to ECD through a revision of the National ECD Policy, and ECD has been prioritised in development plans like the National Strategy for Transformation. UNICEF continues to be the Government’s main partner for developing and implementing ECD programmes.
Despite this commitment, there remains a lack of age-appropriate communication content and material for young children in Rwanda. This content, such as songs, illustrations, television and radio programmes, is critical for engaging children at a young age and encouraging early learning and discovery.
“Adequate stimulation in the early years of life is essential so children can achieve their full development potential,” said Dr. Anita Asiimwe, the National Coordinator for Early Childhood Development.
An important component of the workshop, and an on-going priority of UNICEF programming, is promoting inclusiveness for children with disabilities. Children and adults with disabilities will participate in the workshop in all aspects of production, sessions will be translated into sign language, and presentations given with closed captioning.
The workshop was planned as part of the anniversary celebrations for Itetero, Rwanda’s first radio programme for and by children.
In October 2015, UNICEF partnered with Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) and Imbuto Foundation to create Itetero, meaning “children’s nurturing space” in Kinyarwanda. Itetero now airs every week on Radio Rwanda, teaching children Rwandan cultural values and improving their cognitive development through stories and drama sketches.
Arthur Asiimwe, Director General of RBA, hopes that Itetero will serve as an excellent example during this week’s workshop of the child-friendly content UNICEF, RBA and MIGEPROF hope to see more of in the future.
“We are very proud of Iteteroand the positive engagement we have seen from our listeners so far,” he said.
“We are even planning to move Itetero television, which will engage even more children and their families.”
The six-day workshop will be fully interactive, with presentations and activities capitalising on the experience of partners such as Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts Group and Search for Common Ground. Workshop participants will create real examples of child-friendly communication materials as a catalyst for expanded projects and ideas.
“We commend the Government of Rwanda for their ongoing commitment to ECD, and we are proud to work with RBA as a leader in creating age-appropriate communication material for children,” said Ted Maly, UNICEF Representative.
“We are excited to see the materials and content produced as a result of this workshop,”Maly added.
We are willing to sleep less if it means getting richer, but this mentality is a result of nothing but ignorance. People who do not sleep as much as they should don’t know the importance of sufficient sleep and rest.
Sleeping for the prescribed 7 to 8 hours a night isn’t a waste of time, but a way of keeping your system running the right way. Sleep is designed to allow you rest after the stress of the day. When you don’t allow your body get that, you threaten its smooth running.
In a recent study, experts warn that skipping sleep impairs your brain function across the board. It slows your ability to process information and problem- solve, kills your creativity, and catapults your stress levels and emotional reactivity.
In a similar report from the University of Rochester, the importance of getting sufficient sleep is highlighted; it says that when you sleep, your brain goes to work, removing toxin proteins from its neurons that are by-products of neural activity when you are awake. Now, your brain can only remove them adequately only while you are asleep. So when you don’t get enough sleep, the toxic proteins remain in your brain cells wreaking havoc by impairing your ability to think.
Perhaps, the reason a lot of people don’t yet understand the weight of the problems that could be faced from sleeplessness is because sometimes, the symptoms do not immediately manifest themselves. In some instances, they show quickly enough, but other times, they take a while.
Either way, the dangers of not sleeping enough cannot be overlooked. If you’ve not been getting enough of it, you should have a rethink.
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The attack took place on 24th October, 2017 when non-identified gunmen forcefully entered and shot the bank staff, injuring three and making off with an unspecified amount of money.
Following the attack, police launched investigations to ascertain the people behind the heist.
Speaking to IGIHE, the Southern Region Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Gilbert Gumira said that seven suspects were arrested and their case files were handed to prosecution.
He said that none of suspects pleaded guilty but added that they will all face justice.
Gumira assured people on security in the region adding that BK operations have since resumed
During the attack, a bankstaff identified as Quesie Muhawenimana was shot dead while Branch Manager, Sylvain Rubayita; Assistant Branch Manager, Alphonse Muhayimana and Security Guard, Evariste Kagame were injured.
