Rwanda | Huye: former addicts vow to fight against drug abuse
Some of the residents of Tumba sector in Huye district who were former drug addicts and traffickers have made resolutions to stop abusing drugs and to be at the forefront in the fight against drugs by sensitizing friends about the dangers.
Jean Bosco Habiyambere
Residents in Cyarwa and Cyimana cells in Tumba sector say that in the past months these two cells were a center of drug use especially the illegal local brew locally known as ‘Nyirantare’.
Gakuru Pierre a resident in Cyimana cell said that almost every family makes or sells this local brew and this had a negative effect on people’s health and on their security itself as men who drank it carry razor blades with them to cut whoever comes near them and women carry knives in their shorts and underpants.
People who made this local brew used many bad ingredients of which some are unhealthy like water, tea leaves, sugar, and factory made fertilizers, marijuana, aloe Vera medicinal plants  and floured bricks for coloring as Jean Bosco Habiyambere commonly known as ‘Sebagabo’ who quitted smoking the substance  explained.
After finding out the effects of this local brew, they stopped making it and formed an association that makes banana beer with the help of their local leaders.
On the 7th.July.2012 when the governor of the southern province of Rwanda Alphonse Munyentwali visited the ‘Abisubiyeho’ association, the association members vowed in front of him never to use these illicit drugs and to fight them with all they have.
In Rwanda in these days there is increase of drug use and youth are said to be the majority of drug dealers; the security and administrative levels are doing everything they can to fight this habit especially after the report by the National Police that drugs are the first cause of insecurities in the country.
