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Police in Musanze District, on March 19, arrested a suspected drug dealer, who was trafficking narcotics in a public bus.
Emmanuel Benimana, 29, was arrested with 400 pellets of cannabis.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Alexis Rugigana, the Police spokesperson for the Northern region, said that Benimana was arrested at a Police check point mounted in Bwuzure Village of Kigombe Cell, Muhoza Sector along Rubavu-Musanze highway.
Benimana was headed to Kigali, where he was to sell the narcotics, CIP Rugigana said.
“Police officers were conducting their routine duties, when they stopped a public bus, searched it and recovered one bag, which contained pellets of cannabis,” he said.
“The owner of the bag remained silent when Police officers asked, but fortunate enough, some passengers knew its owner, that’s—Benimana—which helped the officers to identify and arrest him,” the spokesperson explained.
He warned against the criminal acts adding that strengthened community policing and information sharing as well as operations are playing a big part is breaking chains of supply.
Article 263 of the new penal code partly states that “any person who, unlawfully produces, transforms, transports, stores, gives to another or who sells narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances commits an offence”, with a sentence ranging from seven years to life in prison, upon conviction, and a fine of between Rwf20 million and Rwf30 million.
