{"id":28356,"date":"2016-09-06T01:33:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T01:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/imposter-arrested-masquerading-as-police-brokers\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T01:33:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T01:33:15","slug":"imposter-arrested-masquerading-as-police-brokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/imposter-arrested-masquerading-as-police-brokers\/","title":{"rendered":"Imposter arrested masquerading as Police brokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Police in the City of Kigali have arrested a man suspected of masquerading as a broker for the traffic and road safety department and conning several people of their money.}<\/p>\n<p>The suspect identified as Eric Mpaka was arrested on August 27 following several complaints filed by people whom he had conned promising to facilitate their acquire a driver&#8217;s licence.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesperson for the Traffic and Road Safety Department, Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Emmanuel Kabanda, \u201cMpaka was masquerading as traffic police broker and was calling people claiming that RNP was offering a promotion on the registration and giving out driver&#8217;s licence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was telling them that he would also register them on Irembo platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was charging Rwf35, 000 per head claiming to be a \u201cpromotional rate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mpaka who admitted to the alleged crime, said that he was telling the victims that he had connections within the police and that he will use his influence to get them licence.<\/p>\n<p>CIP Kabanda said: \u201cSome of the victims Mpaka was targeting are his former schoolmates partly because he knew their weakness; he was giving them fake codes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is currently detained at Kimihurura police station but investigations are still underway to identify and arrest anyone that could be involved in this scam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is to inform the public that Rwanda National Police has no brokers; public services or drover&#8217;s licence in particular, are processed and acquired individually; registrations for a driving license is free of charge and anyone charging money is defrauding you and we appeal to anyone that encounters such to always inform police for immediate appropriate action,\u201d CIP Kabanda said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14796 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/capture-11.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Police in the City of Kigali have arrested a man suspected of masquerading as a broker for the traffic and road safety department and conning several people of their money.} The suspect identified as Eric Mpaka was arrested on August 27 following several complaints filed by people whom he had conned promising to facilitate their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[550],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-police"],"bylines":[{"id":550,"name":"Police","slug":"police","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":550,"name":"Police","slug":"police","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28356","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=28356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28356"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28356"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}