The call was made by the Rwanda Defence Force First Division Commander, Maj. Gen. Mubarak Muganga, during a meeting that brought together Kirehe District local authorities that included village, cell, sector and district leaders.
Kirehe District local authorities that included village, cell, sector and district leaders.
Kirehe District is located in Rwanda’s Eastern Province bordering Tanzania.
Maj. Gen. Mubarak Muganga warned Rwandan citizens who cross through porous borders to Tanzania to hunt wild animals and collect firewood and timber and said they disturb both the neighboring and their country’s security as the animals hunted may be infected by diseases that could be introduced to Rwanda.
“There are Rwandan citizens who go and disturb the neighboring country. They go hunting the wild animals there and others go looking for firewood. We will not tolerate that because they are causing chaos in the other country,’’ he said.
“Those animals they go hunting usually have different diseases which they may be infected with and later transmit them to our population. Another thing, you do not have a right to go to hunt and burn timber in another country. Whoever is caught will be punished, we will no longer tolerate those behaviors,” he added.
Maj. Gen. Muganga reminded residents of Kirehe District that they have a good and prosperous country and what they go looking away can be found in Rwanda.
The Spokesperson of the Rwanda National Police in the Eastern Province, ACP Benoit Kayijuka said tougher punishments await those who sell drugs in Rwanda imported from foreign countries and asked them to stop it.
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