{"id":22983,"date":"2016-02-04T23:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T23:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-drug-abuser-narrate-the-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2016-02-04T23:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T23:50:52","slug":"former-drug-abuser-narrate-the-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-drug-abuser-narrate-the-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Former drug abuser narrate the ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Emmanuel Dushimirimana, a resident of Nyankurazi of Kigarama Sector in Kirehe District, spent years doing and trafficking narcotic drugs. Recently, after years of nightmares and arrests, the 21-year old decided to quit and take a right direction.}<\/p>\n

On February 3, Dushimirimana narrated his ordeal to the people of Kirehe as he campaigned against sell and use of illicit drugs through his testimony.<\/p>\n

\u201cDealing in drugs made me poor instead of making me rich. I would spend money trafficking them but at the end Police would seize them and that money is blown off just like that. In some other cases, I would just abandon it and runaway for fear of being arrested,\u201d said Dushimirimana.<\/p>\n

Dushimirimana was giving his testimony shortly after a public exercise to destroy over 1000 kilogrammes of cannabis, 715 litres of kanyanga, a banned crude gin in Rwanda and over 1200 pieces of plastic bags, an event that was graced by about 2000 people, majority students.<\/p>\n

They were seized from dealers in varied successful public-facilitated police operations conducted in the last three months in Kirehe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was arrested several times; I can\u2019t even recall a day I made a profit from cannabis I had trafficked apart from the little I would abuse,\u201d Dushimirimana narrated.<\/p>\n

Dushimirimana, who quit absing and selling drugs about three months ago, advised the youth to venture into legal income generating activities rather than taking the \u201cimpossible path of doing business.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the past three months, Dushimirimana has been running a small shop he started after abandoning dealing in drugs, which he said has grown from Rwf50, 000 when he started to Rwf200, 000.<\/p>\n

Kirehe District Police Commander, Supt. James Rutaremara, while speaking at the event, commended the role the residents played to seize the destroyed substances, and arrest of suspects.<\/p>\n

He appealed to them not to wither but rather strengthen collaboration and timely information exchange about drug dealers and other individuals that could be involved in criminal activities.<\/p>\n

Bernard Tugume, the director of good governance in Kirehe, also appealed to the residents to be central in breaking the drug supply chain.<\/p>\n

With Kirehe marked as the major route for drug traffickers, the reinforced operations and awareness campaigns have seen drug related crimes reducing in the district.<\/p>\n

At least 74 per cent of narcotics trafficked into Rwanda pass through Kirehe.<\/p>\n

Late last year, about 1.6 tonnes of cannabis and over 183 litres of Kanyanga seized in the district, were also destroyed.<\/p>\n

Between January and July last year alone, a total of 137 dealers including 15 women, were arrested in the Eastern Province in drug related crimes<\/p>\n

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