{"id":27524,"date":"2016-08-08T01:06:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/youth-in-kiziguro-up-against-drug-abuse\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:06:08","slug":"youth-in-kiziguro-up-against-drug-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/youth-in-kiziguro-up-against-drug-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth in Kiziguro up against drug abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The youth in Kiziguro Sector of Gatsibo District have committed to lead the campaign and fight against trafficking, making, sell and use of narcotic drugs and other illicit substances.}<\/p>\n<p>The commitment was made on August 6 during a meeting that brought together the youth organized under \u2018Turwanye Ibiyobyabwenge Twitezimbere\u2019 club, members of Rwanda Youth Volunteers in Community Policing (RYVCP) and Police in Gatsibo.<\/p>\n<p>The event which  started with a \u2018walk against drug abuse\u2019 was characterized by testimonies of former drug dealers and abusers, and community policing poems and songs.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector of Police (IP) Roger Rwakayiro, the District Community Liaison Officer of Gatsibo, while addressing the youth, said fighting drug abuse starts from an individual basis by refraining from any related acts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current safety and security in Rwanda is mainly attributed to community policing and the role the public and the youth in particular play in this noble course; despite  some activities that undermine this security and the youth are among them, that\u2019s why your continued  partnership  is  paramount, and must strengthened \u201d IP Rwakayiro said.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is expected to continue in all other sectors in Gatsibo.<\/p>\n<p>Gatsibo has about 1200 members of Rwanda Youth Volunteers in Community Policing,  group whose activities focuses on community awareness and fight against crimes through promotion of community safety and realising the idea of timely information sharing with security organs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14027 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/csm_gatsibo_district_39_c161ce5522.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The youth in Kiziguro Sector of Gatsibo District have committed to lead the campaign and fight against trafficking, making, sell and use of narcotic drugs and other illicit substances.} The commitment was made on August 6 during a meeting that brought together the youth organized under \u2018Turwanye Ibiyobyabwenge Twitezimbere\u2019 club, members of Rwanda Youth Volunteers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[550],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-27524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-police"],"bylines":[{"id":550,"name":"Police","slug":"police","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":550,"name":"Police","slug":"police","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27524"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27524"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}