Prison warders urged to maintain discipline

Rwamagana- The Commissioner General of Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS), Major General Paul Rwarakabije, has urged Prison Warders to maintain discipline. He said this while presiding over a ceremony to mark the end of a two-month training of 233 Prison Warders at Iduha training centre in Rwamagana District, yesterday. The colourful ceremony was attended by officials from the Demobilisation Commission and Rwanda National Police. The RCS boss told the Warders to work hard so that their career develops for the good of the country. “The services of Prison Warders are so important that discipline is necessary...Personal discipline and maintaining it in the community. The training was essential to equip you with fundamental skills, to help you execute your duties,” he told the warders. Maj. General Rwarakabije commended the warders’ trainers saying that the product revealed the zeal with which the training was conducted. “I have watched the drills you conducted with great admiration...you can serve at any security institution. I am optimistic you can do well...you know you are charged with the responsibility of the supervision, safety and security of prisoners”. Salim Mugisha, the Commandant of Iduha Training school, said such refresher courses will continue to equip the warders with requisite skills. He said the training school conducted the first course of this kind when it was started. “Then Warders were given field science and Prison management skills. We had 249, but only 233 graduated...the others were expelled due to indiscipline,” he said. Jean Sayinzoga, the head of the Demobilisation Commission, said that Iduha Training School should be developed into a strong Institution. “This centre has been doing a tremendous job for a number of institutions...it is upon us to develop it into a fully fledged training school,” he said. RCS is a merger of the National Prisons Service and Travaux d’Intérêts Généreux (TIG)- community work carried out by convicts of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Ends