Ruhango district embarks on idlers

Police in Ruhango district has for the past three weeks stepped up efforts to curb down numbers of idlers in Ruhango town,

District authorities launched this initiative as a continuous project aimed at getting idlers off the streets and sending them to their homes.

The nabbed culprits in these numerous curfews are primarily sent to a special home Bweramana sector for rehabilitation and later on transported to their respective homes of origin.

Others idlers are alternatively sent to vocational school to acquire life skills in technical schools which, in future, enables them to  develop.

 

One of the teenage idlers escorted by a police officer

Jolie Germaine Mugeni, the district vice Mayor of Social Welfare, says that the operation will be extended to Kigali city, where all idlers originating from Ruhango will be returned home.

“We shall be collecting them, teach them, talk to them, assist those who would like to get back in schools and also help those who would wish to join vocational schools, however the stubborn ones will be sent to Iwawa rehabilitation centre”, Mugeni revealed.

The mayor explains that the centre in Bweramana does not train idlers with any life skills but a place for temporaliy the idelers as the before they are screened.

The centre in Bweramana sector has 47 idlers and 20 of them have been taken back to their homes. The center will also be renovated so that it can accommodate about 60 idlers in future.