The vehicle RAD 256F, Dyna type was intercepted at a roadblock in Nyagahanga, Police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vehicle was headed to Gatsibo from Rwamagana, and it was intercepted along the way following information provided by the people. The vehicle was impounded to Gatsibo Police station while the illicit substances were disposed of,\u201d Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Theobard Kanamugire, the Police spokesperson for the Eastern region, said.<\/p>\n
This comes at the time when various entities are actively engaged in raising awareness against illicit drugs and the ongoing joint operations by Rwanda National Police and Rwanda Standards Bureau (RSB), specifically on illegal distilleries.<\/p>\n
CIP Kanamugire warned of \u201ccontinuous operations against illegal distilleries and dealers\u201d but hastened to add that the \u201cstrong collaboration\u201d with the public through information sharing is a major tool for successful response.<\/p>\n
At least 45 illegal distilleries have been closed in the Eastern Province alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are some unlicensed distilleries some of them using deadly raw materials, operating in unhygienic places and packaging in dirty containers,\u201d CIP Kanamugire said.<\/p>\n
It is said that only 20 percent of 104 distilleries in the Eastern region, are licensed, according to Rwanda Standards Bureau (RSB).<\/p>\n
Close to 80 illegal distillers had been closed by the end of last year across the country in an ongoing joint operation by Rwanda National Police (RNP) and RSB.<\/p>\n
RSB specifies that \u201conly food grade processing aids recognized as safe for human consumption shall be used during the manufacture.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other standard requirements include labeling is also a prerequisite; the name of the products, physical and postal address of manufacturer; net contents in milliliters or liters; ethyl alcohol content; date of manufacture and expiry date; storage instruction; statutory warnings; and list of ingredients in descending order.<\/p>\n
However, some distillers allegedly use mixed sugarcane residues, bricks, sugar, tea, water and other substances said to be harmful to consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police in Gatsibo District, on Sunday, intercepted a vehicle loaded with locally made illicit brew called \u2018Somawumve,\u2019 packed in at least 4320 bottles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36731"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36731"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}