{"id":38703,"date":"2018-12-27T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/calm-peace-as-rwandans-sail-through-festive\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T08:51:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T08:51:51","slug":"calm-peace-as-rwandans-sail-through-festive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/calm-peace-as-rwandans-sail-through-festive\/","title":{"rendered":"Calm, peace as Rwandans sail through festive season"},"content":{"rendered":"

CP Kabera also hailed the conduct of people during their varied celebrations, which he said were organised and done in an orderly and safer manner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe security situation continues to be calm across the country with people going about their normal businesses and merrymaking as usual,\u201d CP Kabera said.<\/p>\n

He went on to reassure the general public of their safety but urged them to “enjoy responsibly and peacefully” respecting the culture and beliefs of others.<\/p>\n

“There were isolated cases on Christmas Day including road accidents largely caused by excessive consumption of alcohol, over speeding and reckless driving,” CP Kabera said. <\/p>\n

Overall, he said, 16 accidents were recorded countrywide on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, injuring 32 people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirteen accidents were minor and three serious; unfortunately we lost two lives due to avoidable deadly behaviours of some drivers,\u201d said CP Kabera.<\/p>\n

One of the serious accidents involved a Rwanda Transport Company (RTCO) bus, which went off the road at Kibuza in Gacurabwenge Sector, Kamonyi District road, killing one person. <\/p>\n

According to Police, this accident was caused by the driver, who had interfered with the speed governor.<\/p>\n

Another fatal accident occurred on December 26, when a speeding vehicle knocked and killed a pedestrian around Rwandex.<\/p>\n

Police also arrested a drunkard lady driver, who destroyed several palm trees along the road to Kanombe International Airport.<\/p>\n

“As usual, no one should condone any acts of lawlessness either in these festivities or any other day all-year-around. We appeal to the general population to desist from acting in a manner that has potential to cause harm to themselves or other people,\u201d CP Kabera said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose celebrating, we urge them to stay within the confines of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Police reported that it also arrested three suspected thieves said to have been breaken into houses in Gatsata Sector, Gasabo District where they stole assorted household valuables especially electronics. <\/p>\n

The trio include the prime suspected thief and his two accomplices; a commercial motorcyclist and taxi-driver, who helped him in transporting the stolen items.<\/p>\n

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The security situation in this festive period remains “generally calm and peaceful” with no major incidents, Rwanda National Police (RNP) spokesperson, Commissioner of Police (CP) John Bosco Kabera, said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[180],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-samson-iradukunda"],"bylines":[{"id":180,"name":"Samson Iradukunda","slug":"samson-iradukunda","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":24}],"contributors":[{"id":180,"name":"Samson Iradukunda","slug":"samson-iradukunda","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":24}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38703","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38703"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38703"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}