{"id":34586,"date":"2017-05-16T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/premier-murekezi-urges-africa-correctional\/"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T11:19:43","slug":"premier-murekezi-urges-africa-correctional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/premier-murekezi-urges-africa-correctional\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Murekezi urges Africa correctional services on productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Premier Anastase Murekezi has requested heads of African correctional service institutions to build partnerships among themselves and foreign countries to address challenges facing the institutions. } <\/p>\n<p>Murekezi gave the advice yesterday as he officially launched the 4thAfrican Correctional Services Association (ACSA) convening in Kigali from 15th to 19th May 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Participants of the five-day bi-annual meeting will share ideas of how to realize progress of correction services on African continent.<\/p>\n<p>Murekezi said that correctional services in Africa face obstacles of inadequate knowledge among managers and urged them to cooperate in addressing the challenge. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cChallenges are apparent in almost all African countries\u2019 correctional services. These are insufficient budget and having few personnel with adequate capacity. It is not easy to attain objectives of ACSA with such challenges,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll African countries, private investors and civil societies have to support ACSA to overcome these problems. This association must closely collaborate with governments to generate productivity in prisons. I would like to remind you that involving inmates in income generating activities is vital for inmates themselves, correctional services and the country in general,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Murekezi told participants that Rwanda tried all the best to facilitate the progress of correctional service and taking care of inmates like paying medical insurance and special care for female inmates. <\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner General of Rwanda Correctional Services (RCS), CGP George Rwigamba said the meeting held in Rwanda will help member states to prepare the future of correctional services. <\/p>\n<p>The president of ACSA chief of correctional service in Uganda, Col Dr Johnson Byabashaija stressed the need to draw consistent policies enhancing the development of correctional services in Africa.  The previous meeting was held in Mozambique in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Participants in ACSA in Kigali will visit various prisons in Rwanda.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20059 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minsisitiri_w_ubutabera_johnston_busingye_na_minisitiri_w_intebe_baririmba_indirimbo_yubahiriza_igihugu-6bd32.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Justice ,Johnston Busingye (left) with Prime Minister Anastase Murekezi during the official opening of ACSA yesterday.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20058 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pm2-10-40380.jpg\" alt=\"The Commissioner General of Rwanda Correctional Services (RCS), CGP George Rwigamba and Rwanda&#039;s Minister of Justice, Johnston Busingye attending ACSA yesterday.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20057 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pm-46-bf7d3.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Anastase Murekezi addressing his remarks yesterday.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20060 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umugaba_w_ingabo_zirwanira_ku_butaka_gen_jacques_musemakweli_na_igp_emmanuel_gasana-d3d0a.jpg\" alt=\"Major General Jacques Musemakweli and IGP Gasana Emmanuel attended the meeting. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20061 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rcss7-93a2f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Premier Anastase Murekezi has requested heads of African correctional service institutions to build partnerships among themselves and foreign countries to address challenges facing the institutions. } Murekezi gave the advice yesterday as he officially launched the 4thAfrican Correctional Services Association (ACSA) convening in Kigali from 15th to 19th May 2017. Participants of the five-day bi-annual [&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":[72,75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34586","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=34586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34586"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34586"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}