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Police and the City of Kigali have closed Caiman Bar and Chez Venant bars located in Gasabo and Nyarugenge district respectively for allegedly selling alcoholic drinks to minors.
The decision to close the two drinking spots was reached after Police, in its ongoing operations, found 26 youths, who are under the required age of 18, 18 of them girls, taking liquors and beers on Friday night.
Owners of the two drinking spots were also arrested in connection with the act which is punishable under article 219 of the Rwandan penal code.
It states that any person who offers or sells alcoholic beverages or tobacco to a child or involves his or her in the sale of such products shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of at least three months but less than six months and a fine of Rwf300, 000 to Rwf1 million or one of these penalties.
The teenagers were also taken into custody but we're released and handed to their parents on Saturday.
Present at the handover held at the RNP headquarters in Kacyiru was also the IGP Emmanuel K. Gasana, city mayor Fidele Ndayisaba and Zaina Nyiramatama of the National Commission for Children.
The IGP Gasana challenged parents to monitor their children and appealed to the youth to be guided by Rwandan morals and values.
Security organs and other pattern institutions, he said, will not tolerate anything that may lead to breeding a bad generation.
Mayor Ndayisaba observed that some school drop-outs and unwanted pregnancies have been due to drunkenness.
Ruth Nyiranziza, one of parents whose daughter was among the victims thanked the police for parental advice given to their children .
ACP Theos Badege said the operation is still ongoing operation in leisure spots targeting child abuse in drinking and dancing places, alcohol consumption and smoking by minors.
