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IGP Gasana commends sports teams for impressive performance in EAPCCO games
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Emmanuel K. Gasana, yesterday, met all the Rwanda National Police (RNP) teams that represented the country in the just concluded EAPCCO games in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and thanked them for representing the country ably.
The week-long second edition of the Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization (EAPCCO) ended on August 12 and brought together seven out of 14 member states.
While addressing the players at RNP General Headquarters in Kacyiru, IGP Gasana thanked the players for their discipline, teamwork and commitment, which he called a "driving force towards success."
RNP competed in six disciplines; football, handball, athletics, Karate, Taekwondo and shooting. They bagged 45 medals in all competitions, including 25 gold medals. Read More
Security guaranteed during elections
Rwanda National Police (RNP) has called upon the general public to exercise their electoral rights while respecting the law and to avoid any acts that can disrupt peace, safety and security.
The force said it will continue to exercise its mandate of ensuring sustainable security before, during and after the forthcoming parliamentary polls.
Pre-election campaigns started yesterday ahead of the polls slated for September 2-3, 2018.
"As accustom, the Rwanda National Police has committed more personnel and material resources to ensure smooth and incident-free elections," RNP spokesperson, Commissioner of Police (CP) Theos Badege said.
He, however, observed that "Rwandans are now accustomed to peaceful elections and this should not be any different." Read More
Karongi school head teacher arrested for drug trafficking
A school head teacher in Rutsiro District has been arrested after he was caught red-handed with 6,168 pellets of cannabis. He is to face drug trafficking charges in court.
Serge Ntagara, 38, the head teacher of Bugarura Primary School was apprehended on Wednesday, 15 August in the Gisanze Cell in Rubengera Sector while riding on a motorcycle with the drugs disguised in a bag full of maize and sorghum grains.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Innocent Gasasira the Western Region Police Spokesperson confirmed the incident, saying the suspect had concealed the drugs in a sack in the guise of transporting only farm produce. CIP Gasasira disclosed that the arrest was made after a member of the community informed police that Ntagara had been seen concealing the drugs in the bottom of the bag before pouring in the maize and other farm produce, to complete the subterfuge. Read More
Police issue extra cautions in wake of fire outbreaks
Police has offered another reminder to the public to take precautions against potential fire outbreaks.
Rwanda National Police (RNP) says this month alone six incidents have been reported in Kigali City, which led to loss of lives and property.
The latest fire incident occurred on Thursday 16, in Nyakabanda Sector in the Ntaraga Cell where a house belonging to one Vianney Rurangwa, which is occupied by Ezira Bagirubwira, 70, caught fire. Old man Bagirubwira was injured in one arm.
The Central Region Police Spokesperson, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Emmanuel Hitayezu described the incident and said RNP’s Fire and Rescue Brigade (FRB) intervened and managed to put out the fire before it could spread to other areas.
SSP Hitayezu disclosed that another incident occurred on August 11, in the Kagugu Cell of Gikondo sector, Rebero Village where a set of twins lost their lives. The sources of the fires are still being investigated, but the spokesperson said human error and dry weather conditions could be responsible for any outbreak. Read More
Over 400 liters of illicit brew impounded in Police crackdown in Rwamagana
Police in Rwamagana District have launched a crackdown on illegal alcohol to address the menace that can wreak untold havoc to many families and lives.
Police said the operation – on Tuesday, August 14 – was aimed at also breaking the network of illicit alcohol traders’ chains. These comprise of contraband goods or counterfeit materials that are used in brewing the dangerous intoxicants, allowing them to sell their product cheaply.
According to the police spokesperson for Eastern Region, Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Theobald Kanamugire, the trade has the added effect of locking out “genuine dealers from the market”. In the Abakina village of Gishari Sector, police disposed of over 400 liters of illicit alcohol and impounded. tens of materials used to package the drinks, which included used Heineken Beer bottles among others. Read More
Nyarugenge charlatan witchdoctor arrested for extortion
Police in Nyarugenge District has from Wednesday August 15, been holding one Leopold Bimenyimana, 42, for defrauding one woman of a large sum of money claiming he was a traditional healer.
It is alleged Bimenyimana posing as a healer in the district defrauded Charlotte Uwamahoro 32, and obtained Frw 7,770,000 through means of extortion.
It is alleged the suspect, through an accomplice convinced and threatened the victim that her situation would worsen if she did not seek the services of the traditional medicine man. The lady has been suffering an undisclosed illness.
According to Senior Superintend of Police (SSP) Hitayezu, Spokesperson of Central Region Police, the suspect claimed to be a spiritual healer and promised to heal the victim through ‘supernatural’ means, but only after she paid the monies.
Through their operation, charlatans like Bimenyimana use all sorts of tricks to gain the confidence of their victims by assuring them of their ability to help them with problems such as poor health, failure in business or relationships, and so on. Read more
Rwamagana Police calls for stronger commitment to curb GBV
Women Leaders from the Eastern Province have been urged to take the foremost position in the fight against sexual and gender-based violence (GBV) because the menace had persisted because some women or the victims have been keeping quiet about it.
Eastern Region Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benoit Kayijuka threw the challenge to the women leaders on Friday August 17, while meeting representatives of women cooperatives from the region at the Kigali Lay Adventist University (UNILAK), Rwamagana branch.
ACP Kayijuka called on all the stakeholders to take a united action in the relentless fight to end violence against women. He urged local leaders to guide their people on how to live in harmony or, where misunderstandings come up, where to channel their grievances. Read More
Former drug addicts on the new path to development
At the roadside linking Rwezamenyo to Kimisagara separating Rwezamenyo and Gitega sectors of Nyarugenge District, we notice a group of about fifteen young men all in their mid-twenties in a beehive of woodwork related activities.
As we approach, two dressed in navy blue workshop dust coats simultaneously move quickly towards us calling ‘boss boss..!’ with hope we are new clients, they are sternly beckoned to move back by one amongst them; we realize there is order and control. We decide to talk to the one with authority whom we latter learn is the head of discipline, why!
Jean Paul Bikorimana, 27, is one of the 35 members of Tuzamurane, a cooperative formed by former drugs and alcohol addicts.
“Each person you see here was a hardcore drug and alcohol addict; many of us were violent robbers”, says Bikorimana.
His father was a drunk and his mother a teetotaler, arriving in Nyamirambo in 1994 from a rural town of Bugesera, Bikorimana was a teenager and frightened by the drinking, smoking and fighting common in the area. But he got used to the place.
He says it all began with just tasting a little of the drugs every day. Read More
