{"id":14359,"date":"2014-05-10T05:37:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T05:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/lake-kivu-traders-warned-against-illegal-goods\/"},"modified":"2014-05-10T05:37:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T05:37:01","slug":"lake-kivu-traders-warned-against-illegal-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/lake-kivu-traders-warned-against-illegal-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Kivu Traders Warned Against Illegal Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Members of cooperative societies from Karongi, Rutsiro and Rusizi with various businesses in Lake Kivu were on May 9 sensitized on water security and safety.<\/p>\n<p>They were also called upon to be vigilant and watch out on anything that can threaten their business.}} <\/p>\n<p>Inspector of Police Jean Baptiste Rutebuka urged those dealing water transport, to always be vigilant and be mindful of the people and luggage they transport.<\/p>\n<p>He observed that some drugs like cannabis are sneaked into the country through waters and at times facilitated by some of their colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>IP Rutebuka also said that some goods including those that are counterfeit are also smuggled into the country, either by their colleagues or facilitated by some of them.<\/p>\n<p>Participants also admitted that at some occasion they have encountered such problems of transporting illegal luggage such as drugs and smuggled merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is so unfortunate that even some of our members have been implicated in these criminal acts. We shouldn\u2019t allow such individuals to taint our name,\u201d Emmanuel Muvunyi, a fisherman in Lake Kivu, said.<\/p>\n<p>IP Rutebuka also appealed to them to report all those that could be involved in such illegal acts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-5683 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kivu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>RNP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Members of cooperative societies from Karongi, Rutsiro and Rusizi with various businesses in Lake Kivu were on May 9 sensitized on water security and safety. They were also called upon to be vigilant and watch out on anything that can threaten their business.}} Inspector of Police Jean Baptiste Rutebuka urged those dealing water transport, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000052106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-14359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000052106,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14359.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14359.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14359.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14359.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14359.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14359.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000052106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14359"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=14359"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=14359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}