{About 800 students, who completed Primary Six and Senior Six currently in their vacation in Nyanza and Ruhango districts, have been reminded of their role in the fight against drug trade and consumption.}
The messages were delivered on December 22 to the students, who are attending civic programmes – Ingando – separately in the two districts.
In Nyanza, Inspector of Police (IP) Jean Baptiste Bizimana, the District Community Liaison Officer, while speaking to the students in Busasamana Sector, hinted on the need for the youth to take a leading role in the fight against the vice, which is rated high among the young generation.
“We are seeing a downward trend in drug related crimes due to increased vigorous awareness and operations backed by the public through community policing, but the youth remain the most threatened by drug abuse,” IP Bizimana told the students.
“You should feel challenged that your generation and fellow students, friends and relatives are being ruined by drugs; it should inform your urgent need to spearhead the fight and awareness against drug abuse in your respective schools and communities,” he added.
He outlined cannabis, banned gin like Kanyanga, Sky Blue and Chief Waragi, and other locally made illicit brew as the common drugs in Rwanda.
The same message was echoed in Ruhango where IP Angélique Abijuru encouraged the students to form anti-crime clubs as a way of coming together to discuss issues affecting them and how they can overcome them.
Rwanda National Police engages in community awareness programmes to engage the general population in ensuring their own community, thus,over 800 anti-crime clubs have been formed in schools, about 140, 000 members of community policing committees and about 10, 000 youth organized under the umbrella organization – Rwanda Youth Volunteers in Crime Prevention Organization.
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