Rwanda Governance Scorecard 2018 indicates that citizens are satisfied with Abunzi services at 88.54% rate with some voices raised on some who take bribes.<\/p>\n
Citizens say that bribes given to Abunzi are given different slangs including inyoroshyangendo that can be loosely translated as \u2018that which eases the journey\u2019, umuti w\u2019ikaramu \u2018the ink of the pen\u2019, guhagurutsa inteko \u2018rising up the committee\u2019 among others.
\nIn a press conference on Friday, the President of the Supreme Court said that information on the Abunzi who take bribes is known at the Supreme Court level.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is true, some citizens say Abunzi don\u2019t do their work adequately and there is too much corruption among them. We always sensitize the Abunzi to never engage in corruption but some don\u2019t understand us. Those will be punished like all the other criminals,\u201d he said.
\nRugege added they will keep sensitizing citizens about their entitlement without involving bribery. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the judiciary, we are unrelentingly fighting corruption among workers in the justice sector. We urge citizens never to give bribes or entice workers to receive it. This drive will continue among the Abunzi and punishment awaits the errant ones,\u201d Rwanda\u2019s Chief Justice Rugege added.<\/p>\n
In May this year, the President of the mediation Committee Abunzi in Nganzo Cell, Muhanga Sector of Muhanga District, was arrested over attempting to bribe an official of the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB).<\/p>\n
The mediation committee member allegedly attempted to bribe the RIB staff after he falsified documents of a judgment he had presided over and had an effect on the case trials in higher court processes.<\/p>\n
Abunzi is a Rwandan homegrown solution, where persons known within their communities for integrity \u2013 in traditional Rwandan society \u2013 are given powers to mediate in the event of conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The President of the Supreme Court and Chief Justice, Prof. Sam Rugege has said Rwanda will have no room for tolerance for members of mediation committees (Abunzi) who engage in taking bribes emphasizing that they are not above laws against corruption.<\/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":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","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\/38559","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=38559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38559"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38559"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}