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Experts say good time keeping is an essential thing toward success; which means clocks and wrist watches should be taken as time keeping devices instead of ornaments because time is expensive.

In the pre-colonial period our ancestors used sun and shade with help of a stick shadow to tell time, and the invasion of colonialists in Africa brought new time keeping devices like clocks and wrist watches which spread all around the continent later on after the first Anglo-boer war in South Africa in early 1880’s.

In our daily life it’s common for people to buy wrist watches which is a good thing, but it seems not everyone is able to comprehend its importance. Some when asked why they wear watches they say ” Because it looks expensive that’s why I put it on my arm”. Others say ” A friend of mine gave it to me as a gift; I had no other options so I had to put it on”. Nevertheless, intellectuals take time as a dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into future and also the measure of duration of events and the intervals between them thus the accomplishment of goals and objectives being set to be achieved.

This signifies that for a country to develop rapidly and boast its economy; its citizens need also to respect and apprehend the importance of time and also consider the negative side effects of not being time conscious onto their daily life and perhaps stop being ignorant of it through buying and taking wrist watches as decoration only instead of time keeping devices.

Uganda and Rwanda Police forces have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) meant to enhance bilateral cooperation of the two institutions.

Collaboration in management of disasters, sharing of experiences, mutual assistance in tracking, arrest and repatriation of suspects and conducting joint operations are some of the agreed upon terms in the MOU.

Speaking at the signing of the MOU, Inspector General of Police Emmanuel Gasana remarked that Rwanda and Uganda do not only co-exist geographically as neighbors but are just the same people who share the same culture, language, clans, businesses and confronted with the same challenges of negative forces and emerging crimes that affect our people and Nations development agenda.

The IGP cited today’s policing challenges of combating trans-national organized crime, which do not only require force capability but also calls for cooperation and called upon law enforcers to move from commitments to actions.

Lt General Kale Kayihura expressed gratitude for the warm and brotherly hospitality accorded to him and his delegation.

Kayihura further congratulated the leadership of the government of Rwanda for the achievements registered and attributed it to visionary leadership and national efforts in that direction. The IGP also cited the opportunities and threats that come with globalization and called for strong mechanisms to be in place to combat crime especially in the area of terrorism and cyber security.

Rwanda Police officers from Uganda and Rwanda who attended the signing on an MOU 300×157 Uganda and Rwanda Police forces sign an MOU

Police officers from Uganda and Rwanda who attended the signing on an MOU

This meeting was a follow up of the decisions made by the 8th and 7th Sessions of the JPCs held in March 2010 in Kampala and October 2006 in Kigali as well as the sub commission on governance and boarder security in Mbarara March 2010

I have covered the opening sessions of Rwanda’s annual Leadership Retreats from their early years. For those unfamiliar with these meetings, locally known as Umwiherero, they are annual forums that bring together top public officials. Of recent, representatives of the private sector and civil society as well as district mayors have come on board.

A week ago, I was invited to the opening session of the 9th Leadership Retreat taking place at the Rwanda Military Academy in Gako, Bugesera District.

Because I had not attended the last two or three retreats, I was not sure they were as lively and interesting (from a journalist’s perspective) as the ones I had covered before.

On the bus ride through the splendid lush and beauty of a resurgent Bugesera, with the other invited journalists, I kept wondering what to expect this time round.

For the first time, the leaders were not going to spend five days in the comfort of Akagera Game Lodge or Lake Kivu Serena – rather they were going to think harder and tighten the loose nuts in a military barracks! “Someone must have sensed that every saved coin can help make a difference in the life of a citizen tucked away somewhere in this country,” I thought to myself.

When we finally arrived, we went through the routine security checks, and later entered the modest meeting hall. The room was packed with excited but relaxed officials. The block had been given a facelift days ahead of the retreat, I later learned.

I was tempted to believe that perhaps the ninth retreat was likely to concentrate more on the incredible achievements the government had registered over the last few years, with declared commitments to stay the course and perhaps fix a few things here and there.

I thought that, coming just weeks after it had been announced that as many as a million Rwandans (12 per cent of the population) had jumped the poverty line and that the country had nearly achieved its targets under the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS I), with a year to spare, as well as a general robust economic performance in a difficult year for many countries, including those in the region, it was only obvious that the mood was going to be celebratory.

A quick perusal through the ‘Concept Note’ that was distributed in the room showed that the organisers had sought to tie the retreat around the impressive national statistics as shown in the 2010 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and the third Household Living Conditions Survey (EIV3), although there was an indication they were keen on entrenching progress at the grassroots, with the unprecedented participation of district mayors.

It did not take long before I realised I was wrong. When President Paul Kagame took to the floor, his guileless talk was almost reminiscent of the statements he made in the same gatherings before the launch of the EDPRS I (in 2008), which has since changed Rwanda in many aspects. He was as emphatic and demanding with a strong conviction that his government can bring about much more results.

His speech concentrated on areas the government had failed to meet the expectations (its own targets, I must add). Yet he did not attempt to fault particular individuals, rather presenting the unachieved targets as a collective failure, even blaming himself at one point, saying he should have done better to ensure the country adequately addressed its energy challenges.

Listening to his speech, you would be forgiven to think this was a country that had registered failure in the recent past – not one that had delivered a more than 8 per cent growth rate, against all odds, last year, and achieved food security levels. You would not believe this is a country that had kept up its reputation as a top global ‘Doing Business’ reformer, a ‘clean country’ on a continent ridden with corruption, and one whose judicial system has increasingly won international community’s confidence with regard to conducting fair and transparent trials, with more countries now willing to extradite or deport suspects to Kigali, to mention but a few.

The President hardly mentioned any of these glowing achievements, rather pushing his Cabinet and other officials to go extra mile, tap into every capacity and resource at their disposal, with a view of changing the living standards for the Rwandan people.

While I’ll not delve into the other proceedings that were held in camera (although I was lucky to follow some of them), the President’s speech and tone set a new mood and a renewed sense of urgency for the Ninth Leadership Retreat. Under Kagame, Rwandans will be rest assured of a truly hard-working government, one that has no time to celebrate achievements, rather using them as a motivation to constantly raise the bar.

The Minister of youth, Jean Philbert Nsengimana, has called on the youth to implement their projects in the urban centres so as to promote employment.

He made the call while addressing various youth cooperatives in Nyamirambo stadium. The meeting was aimed at giving new strategies for youth empowerment in the country in terms of creating jobs.

“Now that the youth are the country’s engine for development, it’s high time they established their business ventures within urban centres for the development of cities across the country,” said Nsengimana.

The minister added that the government was now switching from social cluster empowerment to the economic development strategies.

“Youth have potential to develop themselves other than waiting for support. You have to develop confidence in whatever you are planning to do,” he added.

Nsengimana said the only way to create a happy new generation is for the youth to become more patriotic and innovative in focusing more on creating business opportunities like starting up companies instead of waiting for handouts from benefactors.

He disclosed that his ministry had received several projects from the youth requesting for financial support worth Rwf 800 million yet the ministry only gets less than Rwf 100 million for youth empowerment.

According to the ministry, to financially support youth projects, the ministry needs over Rwf 10 billion.

Nicolas Muhamiriza remembers sitting atop a small hill as red rivers of molten lava crept over the city and swallowed his sprawling villa.

Muhamiriza, 47, was once the owner of a thriving bottling plant. Now he is among thousands of Congolese in the eastern city of Goma who struggle to pay rent for wooden shacks, their livelihoods destroyed nearly four years ago when lava submerged schools, hospitals and houses.

Scientists and officials fear Goma will one day be incinerated by Nyiragongo, the volcano that looms over the city. But Goma’s fertile soil and its location at the tip of Lake Kivu means people still swarm to its lively markets, for trading with nearby Uganda and Rwanda.

City officials would like to move Goma’s residents 30 miles west, to the towns of Sake and Kirotshe.

Few, however, can afford to leave, and the government doesn’t have the resources to help.

“If I had the money I would move tomorrow, but where would I go?” Caleb Kabanda asked. “Here, maybe I can find a job. Outside, it will be impossible.”

Kabanda, a 31-year-old former English teacher whose school was turned into cinders by the lava, said he got by on odd jobs now.

Some 500,000 people live in Goma, and the population will probably double in five years as more people move in despite the risks, Deputy Mayor Deo Katindi said.

“I believe that Goma will disappear from the map,” he said, sitting in an office about 200 yards from an expanse of black stones and ash where one stream of lava flowed through the city.

Katindi, who lost his house, car and all his belongings, sits on a planning committee that concluded last year that the best idea was to try to lure people away from Goma by investing in Sake and Kirotshe.

He said Goma had appealed for financial help from international organizations but had received nothing. As a result, no concrete steps have been taken toward moving.

Scientists say Nyiragongo is lively and a serious hazard.

Only Italy’s Mount Vesuvius is more dangerous in its threat to humans than Nyiragongo, which has erupted five times since 1902, said Celestin Kasereka, a volcanologist at Goma’s Volcano Observatory.

“We don’t know when the volcano will erupt,” Kasereka said. “But it could easily be worse than the last time.”

In Nyiragongo’s relatively small eruption on Jan. 18, 2002, nearly 80 percent of Goma’s economic activity was wiped out by flows of glowing lava that crept across the central markets.

Some 300,000 people fled the city, and nearly half of them lost their homes.

Most soon returned, possessing nothing more than the tattered clothes on their bodies.

Some in Goma, where the rotten smell of sulfur regularly wafts down from the volcano’s crater, believe that the next eruption may very well be their last.

“That smell is a warning,” said Pierre Muhindo, 46, father of three and a longtime security guard. “Stone after stone will fall on the earth, before we all go to heaven.”