The Legal Aid Week is organised from the 21^st to 25^th January 2019 countrywide under the theme:  “Fulfill your responsibility by executing court orders”. This year’s legal aid week is dedicated to various legal aid activities which includes legal education especially on laws that are mostly used by citizens in their daily lives, handling citizen’s complaints, visit to detainees in prisons and providing legal advice to their concerns, free legal representation to vulnerable citizens in courts and judgement execution of court cases especially Gacaca decisions regarding stolen and destroyed properties during the Genocide against Tutsi in 1994. The legal aid week was officially launched in the country on Tuesday the 22^nd January 2019. At the national level, the week was launched in Huye District, Southern Province by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General Busingye Johnston.

While launching the legal aid week, Minister Busingye urged citizens to take the lead to execute court orders peacefully because when judgement execution does not take place, it creates conflicts due to the fact that the victim did not get justice. “Having many unexecuted court cases does not mean that you are at peace with your neighbour; rather, you are living in cold conflicts with them. I am calling upon all those who have court cases that are not yet peacefully executed, that they should execute them not later than the end of this legal aid week” Minister Busingye emphasised.

Avoiding any kind of violence especially home based violence, Minister of Justice and Attorney General sensitized citizens and requested them to avoid use and trafficking of drugs because they are the main cause of home based violence, they destroy health and slows down development.

Official launch of legal aid week at national level event was also attended by a delegation of visitors from Morocco who were on a study tour in Rwanda led by the Minister of Justice of Morocco Honorable Mohamed Aujjar.

The visit of Minister Busingye Johnston in the Southern Province was also extended to Nyaruguru District on 23^rd January 2019 where he first held a meeting with the District Council members to be aware of the District’s status as its focal person in the cabinet. After that meeting, Minister Busingye visited citizens of Mata Sector with the purpose of delivering legal aid week message to them.

He urged Mata citizens to respect courts decisions, avoid drug use and trafficking as well as other crimes in general, ensure cleanliness and work hard to graduate from very poor family category, to the next category.