Rwanda National Police

The negligence of some parents and guardians continues to affect both their families and the country in general.

Some children have drowned while others engage in activities that doesn’t give them hope for a better future.

On Sunday, two teenagers aged 12 and 13 in Ngororero District drowned in a dam as they were swimming.

Sadly, this is a place where parents have been time and again, told to keep their children away from it.

There are other children and old people who have also died in these avoidable circumstances.

The negligence of some parents therefore keeps cheating them and the country of the major resource.   

Some people have forgotten their parenting responsibility, which will continue to haunt us, if they don’t review their roles.

Fetching or playing next or in dangerous water bodies like rivers, streams, and lakes swimming pools by children pose threat to their lives.

This is a threat that is avoidable, if parents and all Rwandans stand up against it.

This, however, doesn’t exclude other people, who also play around these dangerous places.

Some of the concerned people have responded positively to the call, but it’s important that we avoid even the fewer cases that still exist.

It is so unfortunate that some parents send their children as old as ten to fetch water in these dangerous places.

There are also some people who go in these water bodies, even when they don’t know how to swim, others use them to ferry-in illegal goods while others overload their boats.

All these are things that put the lives of people to risk.

Let’s value our lives and know the reason to live. Parents, revise your roles and keep children away from these places.