People living around the volcano areas have been urged to carefully handle stone walls (Gabillons) that were built to guard Rwebeya River from overflow of water from the volcano mountains especially during heavy rains.
This was during the official launch of the protective stone walls built to cut down the speed of water flowing down stream.
The stone walls were built by the collaboration of Ministry of Natural Resources and RDF Reserve Forces (inkeragutabara) in Nyange and Kinigi sectors through which the river flows.
In the recent past, Rwebeya river has overflown and claimed lives of some residents and destroyed valuable property and crops.
Lt. Gen. Fred Ibingira the head of the RDF Reserve Forces noted that after winning the war of bullets, the army will always deal with anything that threatens the peace and security of citizens.
Nkuruziza Emmanuel of thehead of Natural Resources agency said this is second phase of the stone walls project after those launched in 2011, “such projects will continue”.
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