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Police conducted separate awareness against crimes in schools in Bugesera and Karongi districts, where students were challenged to reinforce strategies laid to fight and prevent crimes in communities.
The anti-crime awareness campaign in Ruhuha and Nyegabo secondary schools in Bugesera and Karongi respectively, on May 13, is part of the Rwanda National Police continued sensitization in communities and schools, to strengthen the concept of community policing.
The exercise was also attended by the schools administration and parents.
The discussions focused mainly on fighting use and sell of narcotic and illicit drugs.
While speaking to students of Nyegabo, Inspector of Police (IP), Jean Baptiste Rutebuka reminded them to desist from such malpractices and explained to them the repercussions involved, including arrest.
Students were also taken through common drugs like cannabis, illicit gin like kanyanga and other locally made illicit brew, and laws punishing those caught in the act.
Under article 594 of the penal code, any person who, consumes, injects, inhales, anoints him or herself with or makes any other unlawful use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of one to three years and a fine of Rwf50, 000 to Rwf500, 000.
Under the same article, anyone who unlawfully, makes, transforms, imports, or sells narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances within the country, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of three to five years and a fine of Rwf500,000 to Rwf5 million.
Combating drugs abuse is among the RNP priorities.
Jean Bosco Bashimubwabo, the head teacher of Nyegabo thanked Rwanda National Police for reaching out to their students with such educative messages and appealed to the students to heed the call and concentrate on their studies.
At Ruhuha secondary school, same educative messages were delivered to the students, who in turn pledged to be crime preventers and cooperate with police against such malpractices and identifying and reporting drug dealers to supplement the police strategy of breaking the supply chain.
