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{Four men have been arrested in Nyagatare District for allegedly attempting to bribe police officers on duty to get away with traffic related offences.}

The four men were arrested separately on February 5.

The suspects are identified as Alexandre Turihiwe, Gedeon Bizumutima, Onesphore Rukundo and Jean Paul Rutagarama.

Bizumutima and his driver, Turihiwe, were both arrested in Rukomo Sector as they attempted to bring a traffic police officer with Rwf5000, after their vehicle was found without the compulsory mechanical inspection certificate.

On the other hand, Rukundo was also apprehended in Rukomo where he attempted to offer a bribe of Rwf5, 000 to prevent being penalized for driving without a driver’s licence, while Rutagarama, who was arrested in Nyagatare Sector after he wired Rwf15, 000 to a police officer’s mobile account as a way of retrieving his confiscated driver’s licence after he was also found breaching traffic rules.

All suspects are held at Nyagatare police station.

Reacting to the arrests, the Eastern Region Police spokesperson, Inspector of Police (IP) Emmanuel Kayigi, said “At Rwanda National Police, we have adopted a zero tolerance policy toward corruption, so it’s high time people understood that attempting to bribe a Police officer, is no wisdom and they will be arrested.”

He warned the public against such malpractices, adding that “bribery or corruption will never be accommodated either in Rwanda National Police (RNP) or any in this country.”

“RNP taken a number of measures and will continue to stand against such malpractices, so the public should take that into account and remain law abiding instead of taking illegal shortcuts and avoid law enforcement procedures .”

Article 641 of the Penal Code stipulates that any person who directly or indirectly offers a gift in order to get an illegal service or refrain from carrying out their duties, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of between five and seven years or a fine of twice to 10 times the value of what they had offered in bribes, or both.

{Noela Rukundo sat in a car outside her home in Melbourne, Australia, watching as the last few mourners filed out. They were leaving a funeral — her funeral.}

Finally, she spotted the man she’d been waiting for. She stepped out of her car, and her husband put his hands on his head in horror.

“Is it my eyes?” she recalled him saying. “Is it a ghost?”

“Surprise! I’m still alive!” she replied.

Far from being elated, the man looked terrified. Five days earlier, he had ordered a team of hit men to kill Rukundo, his partner of 10 years. And they did — well, they told him they did. They even got him to pay an extra few thousand dollars for carrying out the crime.

Now here was his wife, standing before him. In an interview with the BBC on Thursday, Rukundo recalled how he touched her shoulder to find it unnervingly solid. He jumped. Then he started screaming.

“I’m sorry for everything,” he wailed.

But it was far too late for apologies; Rukundo called the police. The husband, Balenga Kalala, ultimately pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison for incitement to murder, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (the ABC).
The happy ending — or as happy as can be expected to a saga in which a man tries to have his wife killed — was made possible by three unusually principled hit men, a helpful pastor and one incredibly gutsy woman: Rukundo.

Here is how she pulled it off.

Rukundo’s ordeal began almost exactly a year ago, when she flew from her home in Melbourne with her husband, Kalala, to attend a funeral in her native Burundi. Her stepmother had died, and the service left her saddened and stressed. She retreated to her hotel room in Bujumbura, the capital, early in the evening; despondent after the events of the day, she lay down in bed. Then her husband called.

“He told me to go outside for fresh air,” she told the BBC.

But the minute Rukundo stepped out of her hotel, a man charged forward, pointing a gun right at her.

“Don’t scream,” she recalled him saying. “If you start screaming, I will shoot you. They’re going to catch me, but you? You will already be dead.”

Rukundo, terrified, did as she was told. She was ushered into a car and blindfolded so she couldn’t see where she was being taken. After 30 or 40 minutes, the car came to a stop, and Rukundo was pushed into a building and tied to a chair.

She could hear male voices, she told the ABC. One asked her, “You woman, what did you do for this man to pay us to kill you?”

“What are you talking about?” Rukundo demanded.

“Balenga sent us to kill you.”

They were lying. She told them so. And they laughed.

“You’re a fool,” they told her.

There was the sound of a dial tone, and a male voice coming through a speakerphone. It was her husband’s voice.

“Kill her,” he said.

And Rukundo fainted.

Rukundo had met her husband 11 years earlier, right after she arrived in Australia from Burundi, according to the BBC. He was a recent refugee from Congo, and they had the same social worker at the resettlement agency that helped them get on their feet. Since Kalala already knew English, their social worker often recruited him to translate for Rukundo, who spoke Swahili.

They fell in love, moved in together in the Melbourne suburb of Kings Park, and had three children (Rukundo also had five kids from a previous relationship). She learned more about her husband’s past — he had fled a rebel army that had ransacked his village, killing his wife and young son. She also learned more about his character.
“I knew he was a violent man,” Rukundo told the BBC. “But I didn’t believe he can kill me.”

But, it appeared, he could.

Rukundo came to in the strange building somewhere near Bujumbura. The kidnappers were still there, she told the ABC.

They weren’t going to kill her, the men then explained — they didn’t believe in killing women, and they knew her brother. But they would keep her husband’s money and tell him that she was dead. After two days, they set her free on the side of a road, but not before giving her a cellphone, recordings of their phone conversations with Kalala, and receipts for the $7,000 in Australian dollars they allegedly received in payment, according to Australia’sThe Age newspaper.

“We just want you to go back, to tell other stupid women like you what happened,” Rukundo said she was told before the gang members drove away.

Shaken, but alive and doggedly determined, Rukundo began plotting her next move. She sought help from the Kenyan and Belgian embassies to return to Australia, according to The Age. Then she called the pastor of her church in Melbourne, she told the BBC, and explained to him what had happened. Without alerting Kalala, the pastor helped her get back home to her neighborhood near Melbourne.

Meanwhile, her husband had told everyone she had died in a tragic accident and the entire community mourned her at her funeral at the family home. On the night of Feb. 22, 2015, just as the widower Kalala waved goodbye to neighbors who had come to comfort him, Rukundo approached him, the very man whose voice she’d heard over the phone five days earlier, ordering that she be killed.

“I felt like somebody who had risen again,” she told the BBC.

[‘I was being a parent’: Father found not guilty after taking away daughter’s iPhone]
Though Kalala initially denied all involvement, Rukundo got him to confess to the crime during a phone conversation that was secretly recorded by police, according to The Age.

“Sometimes Devil can come into someone, to do something, but after they do it they start thinking, ‘Why I did that thing?’ later,” he said, as he begged her to forgive him.
Kalala eventually pleaded guilty to the scheme. He was sentenced to nine years in prison by a judge in Melbourne.

“Had Ms. Rukundo’s kidnappers completed the job, eight children would have lost their mother,” Chief Justice Marilyn Warren said, according to the ABC. “It was premeditated and motivated by unfounded jealousy, anger and a desire to punish Ms. Rukundo.”

Rukundo said that Kalala tried to kill her because he thought she was going to leave him for another man — an accusation she denies.

But her trials are not yet over. Rukundo told the ABC she’s gotten backlash from Melbourne’s Congolese community for reporting Kalala to the police. Someone left threatening messages for her, and she returned home one day to find her back door broken. She now has eight children to raise alone and has asked the Department of Human Services to help her find a new place to live.

And lying in bed at night, Kalala’s voice still comes to her: “Kill her, kill her,” she told the BBC. “Every night, I see what was happening in those two days with the kidnappers.”

Despite all that, “I will stand up like a strong woman,” she said. “My situation, my past life? That is gone. I’m starting a new life now.”

{Residents of Bugesera between Nyamata and Rilima have expressed dissatisfaction over compensation of their land to be used for a public road to New Bugesera International Airport. }

The Nyamata-Rilima road, 15 kilometers, will pass through land of 77 citizens residing in different sectors of Bugesera district.

A compensation audit of land through which the road will traverse was conducted by Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA) in collaboration with Bugesera district in June 2015.

Mukantwali Judith is among the residents whose land was registered for compensation. “They registered me along with others in June last year. I appeared on first lists but I have missed on the current list,” she said.

Mugiraneza Jean Baptiste another waiting beneficiary says he has been checking his account when he hears that the cash is released but in vain.

“In November last year, we were told that the compensation had been effected and money posted on our bank accounts which was not true,” he said.

The officer in charge of coordinating the road compensation project, Jean Baptiste Mpingane, says delayed payments occurred because the money was diverted to Road Maintenance Fund.

“The National Bank of Rwanda realized that there was a mistake in the payment order. The matter has been corrected and the money has started getting transferred on accounts of beneficiaries,” he said.

Article 36 of law nᵒ 35 of 31/08/2015, indicates that anyone displacing people has to complete the compensations in not more than 120 .

{Residents of Mukamira Sector in Nyabihu District have bee called on to lead the fight against gender and domestic violence saying that effects of such violence are enormous to an extent that they affect the development of the communities involved, Police also urged residents to always report such cases in the quickest time possible.}

“You don’t have to wait for violence to erupt; anywhere you sense some misunderstanding in your neighbors report to the police immediately,” Assistant Inspector of Police (AIP) Marie Rose Uwizera‎, the District Community Liaison Officer, told the resident during a meeting held on February 4.

She added that; “gender and domestic violence is a burden on the social systems of a community and it drastically affects the development of a nation… batterers cost nations fortunes in terms of law enforcement, health care, lost labor and general progress in development.”

“These costs do not only affect the present generation; what begins as an assault by one person on another, reverberates through the family and the community into the future.”

AIP Uwizeye hastened to add that, “this is why we need to stop it before it happens. We can’t afford the risks and the loses, we have to collectively fight this vice and where it is, we uproot it.”

The DCLO reminded residents that domestic violence is not simply an argument. “It is a pattern of coercive control that one person exercises over another. Abusers use physical and sexual violence, threats, emotional insults and economic deprivation as a way to dominate their victims and get their way”

“Many forms of verbal and psychological abuse appear relatively harmless at first, but expand and grow more menacing over time, sometimes gradually and subtly. As victims adapt to abusive behavior, the verbal or psychological tactics can gain a strong foothold in victims’ minds, making it difficult for them to recognize the severity of the abuse over time,” Uwizeye told residents.

In detailing psychological and emotional violence, Uwizeye told resident that this covers “repeated verbal abuse, harassment, confinement and deprivation of physical, financial and personal resources. Violence not only causes physical psychological and emotional damages, it also undermines the social, economic development of the victim and the society as a whole.”

Following the meeting, residents committed to strengthening their partnership with security organs especially sharing information to ensure that cases of domestic violence are stamped out.

{I would never forget a funny meme which I once saw, describing how difficult it is to understand a woman and how easier it is to understand a man. The meme pointed out that to understand a woman, you need to read a book about them ten times the size of an encyclopedia — now, that’s too much.}

It’s rare to find a man who totally understands his lady and knows how to treat her accordingly.

Are women really that hard to understand? I guess not.

A huge mistake most men make is thinking that all women are the same; no fellas, every woman is different and unique in her own way, and this article would show you just how to understand your woman better.

{{1. BE OBSERVANT}}

One reason why most men can’t understand their women is because their minds are occupied with other things. When you pay close attention to your lady and you are observant of the tiniest details, it would be very easy to understand her. Paying close attention to anyone really would teach you so many things you didn’t know about them.

{{2. KNOW WHAT SHE ALWAYS COMPLAIN ABOUT}}

Many men keep saying “my wife is always angry”. Well, I don’t think anyone gets angry for no particular reason. Know what irritates and infuriates her, know what she’s always complaining about — you would pick a thing or two from listening to her complain. A lot of men tend to repeat what their women complain of regularly, without really knowing that they are crossing the woman’s path.

{{3. SEX}}

You need to understand her sexually. Know what turns her on and what turns her off. You should also understand her different moods towards sex. Some emotional problems like problems in the relationship, losing a loved one, family problems and even stress can affect her sexually — you ought to know this.

{{4. BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU SAY}}

When having a quarrel, be careful what you say. Women rarely forget things; even science has proven this. Never say what would affect your relationship simply because you are angry.

{{5. HER PERIOD}}

Never take her menstrual cycle for granted. When she’s on her flow, you should be more tolerant of her; hormone fluctuations, mood swing, physical pain, lack of appetite or even increased appetite can make her act differently. So be more tolerant.

{{6. HONESTY IS THE BEST WAY TO WIN HER TRUST}}

Women appreciate honesty; this is the best and probably the only way to win her trust.

{{7. NEVER TALK ABOUT OTHER WOMEN YOU HAVE BEEN WITH}}

Except she brings this up, never talk about your ex or other women you have been with — she would feel jealous or even think that you still have secret feelings for them.

{{8. SHE WANTS TO FEEL BEAUTIFUL}}

Women spend times ten or even more than the amount men spend on beauty. There is no secret to this, women want to feel beautiful; she wants to be seen as beautiful by her man, and she wants him to have eyes for her only.

Tell her she’s beautiful, compliment her always and show her that you mean what you say.

{{9. SHE WANTS TO FEEL EMOTIONALLY SECURE}}

Emotional security is another thing for many women. She wants to feel that you truly love and care for her, and that you would be there for her always. She doesn’t want to feel threatened by another woman.

{{10. SHE WANTS TO BE LISTENED TO
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Sometimes, she just wants you to listen; to understand how she feels and to understand what’s going through her mind.

Let your attention be focused on her during a conversation; that’s how she knows that you are listening.

{{11. IF SHE SEEMS UPSET, ASK}}

Sometimes, she gives you that worried and upset face so that you can ask what the matter is. Trust me, she would feel bad if you don’t ask or feel worse if you don’t even notice.

{{12. ALWAYS SHOW HER YOU LOVE HER}}

She wants to know that you would always love her, no matter what. Show her some affectionate gestures, whether you are alone or not — that’s what makes her feel special.

{{13. RESPECT}}

Treat her with respect. Respect her feelings, respect her ideologies even when you don’t agree with her; respect her as a woman and respect her for the role she plays in your life.

If you can understand her better, then your relationship with her would definitely be smooth sailing.

{It’s hundred percent possible for your relationship to get boring and feel as dull as ever; not only relationships, marriages get boring too.}

It’s important that you work on your relationship / marriage early enough when it starts getting boring rather than stall; it could get worse to a point where the cracks in your relationship / marriage might become hard to fix.

We’ve brought you the habits that can make your relationship boring; now it’s time to chase boredom out of your relationship.

{{1. SWITCH UP THE DAILY ROUTINES}}

One reason why many relationships start to get boring is because they do the same thing on a daily basis. Avoid having a monotonous relationship with your partner; stop doing the same thing every day. When you have a change in your routine with your partner, or when you start to do things differently then your relationship would have life and get better of for it.

{{2. CREATE SPECIAL MEMORIES}}

One highlight of a boring relationship is a lack of special memories. Try to have special moments with your partner — this is how you create special memories, and it would become difficult for your relationship to be boring when you and your partner are creating special memories with each other.

{{3. DO SOMETHING EXCITING}}

When excitement is lacking in your relationship, it could become boring. Do something exciting with your partner; do this regularly and your relationship / marriage would have this excitement that would help bond you and your partner together.

{{4. HAVE BETTER SEX}}

Sometimes, it boils down to your sex life. What’s your sex life with your partner like? If your sex life with your partner is stale and boring, it could affect your relationship / marriage. However, when you have a great sex life with your partner, it would be easier to have a better relationship.

{{5. SHARE IN EACH OTHER’S PASSION}}

When you have a shared goal or passion with your partner, it would give you both something to think of; it would make the future feel great and you would both have something to look forward to together. Working towards a common goal can help your relationship / marriage more than you can imagine; it would definitely help you bond better with your partner, and boredom would only be a thing of the past.

{{6. SPONTANEITY}}

Do you ever think outside the box and do something for your partner when they least expect? That’s spontaneity, and when spontaneity is present in your relationship / marriage, it can never get boring.

{{7. SPEND TIME TOGETHER}}

Couples that have boring relationships and marriages don’t spend quality time together. Togetherness is very important if you want your relationship to be great. Also, it doesn’t just end by being together; but also having a great time together.

When you enjoy each other’s company, your relationship / marriage can never get boring.

{{8. LEARN TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER}}

Many relationships and marriages reach the edge and have lots of tensions because partners don’t know how to communicate with each other. Talk about everything with your partner; the little things and the major things. Learn how to communicate with your partner without causing a scene; when you do this, it would be difficult for things to get stale afterwards.

Do you think your relationship with your partner is getting boring? Do you feel that the excitement in your marriage has been swept off?

These tips would help make your relationship / marriage more exciting; chase boredom out of your love life today.

{Most ladies are stuck to dating patterns that condemns them to meeting the same type of guys and ending up in a failed relationship.
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If you want to meet the right type of guy, you need to change your approach to dating as a woman.

Below are 6 things to do if you want to meet the right type of guy

{{1. YOU HAVE TO BE REALISTIC}}

One major problem most ladies have is that they have refused to be honest with themselves. Every lady seems to want a hot and good-looking guy which isn’t bad but you also have to know that every lady wants them too. So it becomes a chase among the ladies while the super hot guy enjoys the attention and warmth from all the ladies. Before you jump into a relationship with that guy and let him have you in bed, you have to ask yourself if that guy wants to be with you as much as you want to be with him.
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2. DON’T GO FOR PHYSICAL ATTRACTION
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If you sit down for some minutes and ask yourself why most of your relationships failed, you might just discover that you have been repeating the same mistake over and over again. Going for physical attraction is the mistake I am talking about. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with dating a good-looking guy but attractiveness alone isn’t a good basis for a relationship. It’s important you go for connection and not just physical attraction. Use your brain to choose the guy you want and not your eyes.

{{3. NOT ALL RELATIONSHIPS ARE MEANT TO LAST}}

We definitely won’t see ladies fighting over a man if all ladies knew this. The earlier you understand this, the better for you. Some relationships are meant to teach us valuable lessons about being in a relationship and not last forever. You won’t continue being in a relationship that isn’t working if you know that not all relationships are meant to last. Give that person a chance and don’t get too hung up on ‘happy ever after’.

{{4. FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE}}

You might struggle to meet the right type of guy if you always write people off after a poor first impression. First impressions are often wrong so if you judge every guy you meet based on first impression, you might throw away that one date that can turn into a lifelong love. Forget first impressions.

{{5. HAVING A PARTICULAR TYPE OF GUY YOU DATE}}

You can’t meet the right type of guy for you when you always insist on dating certain types of guys. Ask so many married people out there and most will tell you that they nearly refused dating their spouse because their spouse wasn’t their type.

{{6. MAKE NEW FRIENDS}}

Just because a guy isn’t your type is no reason not to be friends with him. I suggest you make new friends because if he isn’t the type of guy you are used to, chances are he would introduce you to a whole new range of things and who says he can’t turn out to be your type tomorrow. He might just be the right type for you and you might never know if you don’t at least become friends with him.

{Residents of Nyabigega cell, Kirehe sector, Kirehe district have expressed dismay over some local leaders that have ostracized and sabotaged them from accessing electricity and domestic animals’ breeding but, instead, brought them a nursery which, after a very little while, stopped functioning.}

Marceline Uwera, one of the residents, said that during their Ubudehe sittings, they supported a project of connecting residents to the national electricity grid but were disappointed to learn that authorities had sidetracked their recommendations.

“We wanted to get access to electricity. We agreed on that project since we wanted to delve into profitable projects that require electricity to operate. We are disappointed in our local leaders that are now acting against our expectations,” she said.

The executive secretary of Nyabigega cell, Nyabigega, Musafiri François said that his office was turned into a kindergarten school but was later closed.

The Kirehe Sector executive secretary, Léonald Bihoyiki, acknowledged that residents’ recommendations were not implemented, hastening to add that new plans shall be crafted and their decisions be incorporated.

Ubudehe guidelines indicate that only projects agreed upon and confirmed during village meeting have to be implemented. Local leaders are meant to advise on how projects should be implemented which ones should be given priority.