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A suspected drug dealer, who attempted to traffic cannabis into the country in jerrycans, was arrested in Rubavu District.
Ildephonse Cyambi, 76, was arrested on November 22, at about 3pm at the border point with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Innocent Gasasira, said Cyambi had concealed cannabis in two jerrycans.
“Police officers at the border checkpoint saw Cyambi with two jerrycans, because they are aware of various tricks employed by drug traffickers, they inquired to know what was in the jerrycans only to find they were stashed with rolls of cannabis,” CIP Gasasira said.
Cyambi and his exhibits were handed over to Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) in Gisenyi, the spokesperson said.
“Various tricks used by drug traffickers have been unearthed. Some stash them in groceries like pumpkins, bicycle tyres, in veils, shoes; women wrap them at the back to guise as carrying a baby or at the stomach pretending to be pregnant, among others,” CIP Gasasira said.
The arrest of Cyambi came a day after Police in Kigali seized other 45, 100 pellets of cannabis from a house located in Nyanza, Gatenga Sector in Kicukiro District.
According to CIP Emmanuel Kayigi, the Police spokesperson for the City of Kigali, the house was being used as store by a drug dealer.
“We know the woman who was renting this house; she had just shifted from Kimisagara where she was running the same criminal business. She eluded arrest today but tomorrow or another day she will be arrested,” CIP Kayigi said.
