At least 19 bales were intercepted in Rusumo \u2013 Kirehe District \u2013 while 200kgs others were seized from smugglers in Nyagatare District, Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Theobard Kanamugire, the Police spokesperson for the Eastern region, said.<\/p>\n
The seized second hand clothes have since been handed over to Revenue Protection Unit (RPU) for further management, CIP Kanamugire added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe clothes seized in Kirehe were being smuggled through river kagera; the smugglers managed to escape leaving the bales behind after seeing marines, who were in their daily operations.<\/p>\n
Rwanda National Police (RNP) and Tanzania Police Forces, late last year, started joint operations in river Kagera against any illegal activities conducted within or through the waters. <\/p>\n
\u201cSmuggling is unlawful due to its impact on the economy, its likelihood to bring into the market hazardous goods, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s part of the day-to-day police operations,\u201d CIP Kanamugire said, warning of \u201cappropriate consequences\u201d to anyone that will be caught in such illegal acts.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, a woman identified as Clothilde Mwiseneza was also arrested in Rubavu District at a border post with DR. Congo, after she tried to bribe a Police officer in order to facilitate her to smuggle clothes into the country.<\/p>\n
Smuggling of second-hand clothes has relatively increased in the past few years following the increase in taxes levied on them from $0.2 per cent to $2.5 per cent per kilogramme. <\/p>\n
\u201cPolice has strengthened operations on major and strategic routes; that\u2019s why we have been able to arrest many smugglers sometimes based on information we receive from the public, and seizing smuggled goods,\u201d CIP Kanamugire said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nineteen bales and 200 kilogrammes of used clothes commonly known as caguwa were intercepted on Monday in two separate Police operations in the Eastern Province, along the border with Tanzania.<\/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-36741","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\/36741","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=36741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}