Through his twitter handle, Kagame encouraged participants in the exercise saying that they should make it sustainable for health benefits.
“Happy to see how car-free day is successful and continuing to attract thousands not only in Kigali but across the country,” he said.
“Congratulations to everyone who participates in car free day. We should make it sustainable/long term. The health and other benefits are enormous!” reads his tweet.
While participating in the sports last month, Kagame called for increase of hours for the programme to help contribute in promoting healthy life among Rwandans.
Based on Kagame’s call, the City of Kigali Mayor Pascal Nyamulinda announced, while participating in ‘car free day’ yesterday, that they have increased days of the activity from one to two days monthly.
He said the mass sports will take place at the first and third weekends of every month.
“I can assure you that it will occur twice a month as was requested by the Head of State when he was visiting us,” he said.
Car Free Day programme was launched in 2016 and was aimed at sensitizing city dwellers on sports culture and preventing non-communicable diseases.
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