Rwanda National Police

Following the arrest of four people last week in connection with forging bank-slips to obtain their road traffic-related confiscated documents from the traffic and road safety department, most traffic offenders penalized have started to respond positively to clear their names.

By June 24, over one hundred owners of vehicles caught and penalized for traffic offenders and used fake bank-slips to obtain their confiscated documents, had already reported at the traffic and road safety department voluntarily to clarify on the illegal acts and clear penalties.

The traffic department released a list of 303 vehicles whose owners or drivers used forged bank-slips to bail their seized documents.

It is alleged that after drivers are handed penalty receipts for traffic offences, some of them forge bank-slips which they take to collect their seized documents.

They are in three categories; the first group deposits money on their bank accounts equivalent to that on the penalty receipt and bring same bank-slips to collect their documents; others pay less and forge same bank-slips to add missing figures while others bring pay-slips with all particulars manipulated.

Supt. Jean Marie Vianney Ndushabandi, spokesperson for the traffic department said most of the illegal acts were committed by drivers not owners of vehicles.

Vehicles owners, though they will pay a fine of Rwf10, 000 for delaying to clear the penalties, they will also help in identifying and allocating their drivers who used forged bank-slips to obtain their documents.

Normally, when a vehicle is penalized after the driver is found without all traffic required documents, the person is supposed to pay the fine in the bank before three days elapses.

Beyond that, the offender pays another Rwf10, 000 for delaying.

Supt. Ndushabandi urged members of the public whose vehicles are on the list to come and clear their names.

Click here to see a list of all vehicles that used forged documents