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Police in Gisagara District have arrested three people including a woman, who were guising as employees of OPEDEI and defrauding parents promising to give bursary to their children.
Opedei is a local Non-Governmental Organization that takes children off streets.
The Police spokesperson for the Southern region, Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Emmanuel Kayigi identified the trio as Gaudence Uwimana, 41, Eugene Niyomugabo, 21, and Emmanuel Semanzi.
They were arrested on May 22 in Sabudali Village of Bweya Cell and Ndora Sector
“Available information indicates that the three suspects have been into this fraud since September last year, and had registered 152 children, with their parents paying a certain amount of money as registration fee,” CIP Kayigi said.
“Uwimana was posing as the director of Opedei presenting Niyomugabo and Semanzi as her junior employees. They were soliciting money from parents telling them that they would get bursaries, clothes and food for their children,” he added.
They trio was also deceiving unwitting residents that their office was in Imbazi, although the Imbazi branch was closed years back.
Article 318 of the Rwandan penal code states that “any person who, intentionally obtains a property belonging to another person fraudulently or by using false names or qualities, to give rise to hope or fear of harm and obtains a part or whole of a fortune shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of three to five years and a fine of Rwf3 million to Rwf5 million.”
