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Kinyarwanda
Just like in other places across the country, pupils and students are currently enjoying school holidays and festivities as they also mark their academic year.
It obviously paramount to note that, these holidays are such an important time for the youth to relax, interact and hobnob with their families and peers as well as refreshing up their minds before they could get back on hustles (studies) for the next academic year.
It has always been anticipated though that, while students get immensely involved in merrymaking activities around this period, their behaviors could easily get influenced and spoiled by bad people, who may lure the teenagers into malpractices including mainly abusing drugs, which might hamper their dreams to become useful and competent citizens.
It is against this background that Police in Kirehe District earlier this week, sensitized about 100 youth majority students, on the dangers of drug abuse and to refrain from all sorts of criminal, immoral acts.
Inspector of Police (IP) Gahigi Harerimana, the District Community Liaison Officer (DCLO) of Kirehe, took the young stars through all types of narcotic drugs, dangers associated with abusing drugs and challenged them to courageously step up against them by reporting those who either attempt to lure them into abusing or selling them, or drug dealers.
IP Gahigi appealed to the youths to rebuff all kind of influences, support their parents and be that may take them into malpractices like abusing drugs.
“Drug abuse is not only a potential threat to one’s health… seriously damages brain capacity, but also a criminal act,” IP Gahigi told the youth.
He also urged them to abstain from sexual immorality acts, which result into child and unwanted pregnancies, contracting and transmitting HIV/AIDS, among sexual infectious diseases.
