EASTERN PROVINCE

BUGESERA — District officials have been asked to join hands with school authorities to fight genocide ideology in schools.

Meeting head teachers, district officials and security personnel on Monday, members of the house of deputies M. Rose Mureshyankwano and Emmanuel Mugabowinndekwe, said combined efforts were needed to uproot genocide ideology in schools.

According to Mugabowinndekwe, they would meet all head teachers, teachers and students. The discussions with school and district authorities follow a recent report of the Parliament commission that revealed prevalence of genocide ideology in several schools across the country.

No school was cited in Bugesera district, according to Mayor Gaspard Musonera, but the legislators urged them to make preventive measures "because schools recruit teachers from different parts of the country.”

"You are lucky that this evil has not infiltrated your district, but you should not sit back to relax and think that it will not reach. You have to know that you admit students and recruit teachers from different parts of the country,” the legislators advised, adding, you have to be awake because these people can carry the vice.

Mugabowindekwe reminded the group that the report revealed that some teachers were the perpetrators of genocide ideology in schools, the reason they [legislators] decided to meet school officials before meeting the students.

"We have to teach people the effects of genocide in any society. And we teach everyone to get involved in fighting against this evil,” Mugabowindekwe stressed.

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