{"id":29778,"date":"2016-10-27T08:27:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/man-arrested-over-contemplated-murder-of-sister\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T18:50:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:50:53","slug":"man-arrested-over-contemplated-murder-of-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/man-arrested-over-contemplated-murder-of-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over contemplated murder of  sister by arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A man identified as Niyitegeka Saidi is detained at Gikondo police station in Kicukiro district over alleged contemplated murder by burning to death his paternal step sister, Itangishaka Monique. }<\/p>\n<p>Niyitegeka  was arrested on Tuesday after residents suspected and reported him to be the mastermind behind burning a house located in Kanserege cell in Gikondo sector in which his sister Itangishaka Monique lived. <\/p>\n<p>The house caught fire at around 3:30 hours on October 25th, 2016. <\/p>\n<p>The police spokesperson in Kigali, Spt Hitayezu Emmanuel has confirmed to IGIHE of  Niyitegeka\u2019s  arrest.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter receiving information, we rushed to the scene to investigate the incident of the burnt house. We immediately visited two people who lived in it at CHUK where we found them in critical health conditions,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Itangishaka died at CHUK hospital yesterday while the other fire victim is still getting medical assistance. <\/p>\n<p>Spt Hitayezu explained that they have arrested Saidi after receiving information suspecting him to be the mastermind of the fire. <\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that Saidi\u2019s child was living with Itangishaka but the child was not inside the house at the time it caught fire.  <\/p>\n<p>If convicted of murder crime, Saidi shall be liable to life sentence as per article 140 of Rwanda\u2019s penal code. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15972 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arrested-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A man identified as Niyitegeka Saidi is detained at Gikondo police station in Kicukiro district over alleged contemplated murder by burning to death his paternal step sister, Itangishaka Monique. } Niyitegeka was arrested on Tuesday after residents suspected and reported him to be the mastermind behind burning a house located in Kanserege cell in Gikondo [&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":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29778","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=29778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29778"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29778"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}