Police in Ngoma District joined residents of Sake Sector on Monday in a communal exercise to renovate houses of vulnerable families in Kiriko Village of Gafunzo Cell.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Eugene Musonera, while addressing hundreds of residents shortly after the exercise, reminded them that togetherness is an inevitable factor towards sustainable security and development.
CIP Musonera, who is also the District Community Liaison Officer of Ngoma, urged them to strive for making their village crime-free as they actively engage in human security activities.
He called upon residents to fight and report anything, which might distract them from participating in development initiatives like gender based violence, drug trafficking and abuse.
Sake sector is identified as one of the routes used by drug traffickers from Kirehe to Kigali.
“Don’t hide drug dealers, if you see or suspect one to be trafficking or selling narcotics report them; we need to fight the vice of illicit drugs together through information sharing,” CIP Musonera said.
Jean Nepo Ngendabanga, the executive secretary of Gafunzo Cell, also urged the residents to strengthen night patrols, neighborhood watch but also actively be part of community health and development programmes like Umuganda, paying health insurance premiums and Umugoroba w’ababyeyi.