{"id":21295,"date":"2015-11-21T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/northern-corridor-countries-sign-agreement-to\/"},"modified":"2015-11-28T08:08:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T08:08:06","slug":"northern-corridor-countries-sign-agreement-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/northern-corridor-countries-sign-agreement-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern corridor countries sign agreement to deport convicts"},"content":{"rendered":"

{The Ministry of Internal Security has announced that Northern Corridor countries will deport fugitives and convicts so they can face justice and serve time in their respective countries where they might have committed crimes. } <\/p>\n

Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya under the Northern Corridor Initiative have signed a memorandum of understanding to bring deportation of convicts and fugitives into effect during the closing ceremony of a four- day meeting on security. <\/p>\n

The Minister of Internal Security Sheikh Harerimana Mussa Fazil argued that under the new arrangement, convicts will serve their sentences near their families.
\nThe Uganda State Minister for internal affairs, James Baba has noted that the exchange of convicts will start soon regardless of the remaining time to be served. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe know there are some Ugandans are jailed in Rwanda or Kenya even though we don\u2019t have statistics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Harerimana noted that the government has the obligation of ensuring citizens\u2019 welfare adding that the new partnership is an effort to promote respect for human rights since getting jailed abroad doesn\u2019t remove one\u2019s nationality.
\n\u201cStates have responsibilities of promoting citizens\u2019 welfare. Conviction doesn\u2019t mean deprival of nationality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The minister explained that efforts are underway to transport convicts to their countries. Rwanda also doesn\u2019t have statistics of Rwandans jailed in Uganda and Kenya.<\/p>\n

The three countries have also signed an agreement on hosting refugees as prepared by Uganda while Rwanda will elaborate traffic rules within Northern Corridor states. The Northern Corridor connects Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda on sustainable developmental projects.<\/p>\n

\"Ministers<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{The Ministry of Internal Security has announced that Northern Corridor countries will deport fugitives and convicts so they can face justice and serve time in their respective countries where they might have committed crimes. } Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya under the Northern Corridor Initiative have signed a memorandum of understanding to bring deportation of convicts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070286,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21295.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21295.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21295.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21295.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21295.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21295.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21295"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}