{A consultant with the Rwanda Association of Local Government Authorities (RALGA) has been arrested in connection with job interview related malpractices.}
Elisaphan Mujyanama, 32, was arrested last week after it came to light that he was trying to meddle in a job tests, apparently to influence results in favour of one of the candidates.
Mujyanama, a teacher by profession, was arrested alongside one of the job applicants identified as John Ntaganda, 34, whom he had allegedly aided to cheat the exams.
Ntaganda alongside many others had applied and did an exam for the post of a procurement officer at RALGA. Mujyanama had been hired to oversee the recruitment process.
The suspects are currently detained at Kicukiro Police Station pending further investigations.
Police Spokesperson for the Central Region, Superintendent Modeste Mbabazi, noted that police was informed about the incidence by RALGA officials after they suspected that the consultant they had hired to manage the recruitment of a procurement officer, had instead tried to connive with one applicant and cheat the exams.
“After the applicants had completed the exam, Mujyanama secretly substituted Ntaganda’s answers with another sheet that had only correct answers. When he scored 100 percent, the employers became suspicious, and when they checked with the model answer sheet, they realized that Ntaganda’s answers were exactly the same as they appeared on the model sheet,” Superintendent Mbabazi said.
“When Police investigated further, we discovered that the two suspects had indeed met and discussed about how they would cheat the exam and enable Ntaganda to get the job wrongfully.”
Superintendent Mbabazi added that police investigations will continue in a bid to ascertain whether there was bribery or other illegal activities that the duo connived to conduct.
“There is a possibility that this is not the first time Mujyanama has indulged in examination malpractice. So we shall conduct more investigations and provide enough evidence for prosecution,” he said.
“Such acts are detrimental to development and they promote an unfair competition in the labor market. Therefore, anyone who has information that can help police to overcome such acts should come forward and report them.”
The penal code in its article 634, stipulates that any person who explicitly or implicitly demands or directly or indirectly receives a gift or any other illegal benefit as a promise in order to offer a service under his/her mandate shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of two to five years and a fine of two to ten times the value of the illegal profit solicited.
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