{"id":40034,"date":"2019-09-17T08:59:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T08:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/250-drivers-arrested-for-drunk-driving\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T08:59:29","slug":"250-drivers-arrested-for-drunk-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/250-drivers-arrested-for-drunk-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"250 drivers arrested for drunk driving, disconnecting speed governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 144 drivers were arrested for drunk driving. 80 drunk drivers were arrested Friday night, 37 in the night of Saturday while other 27 were arrested Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Over 300 drivers have been arrested for driving while under the influence of alcohol since the operation was launched three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The operations came as a deliberate response against human behaviors, which are largely blamed for road carnage.<\/p>\n<p>While appearing on \u2018Waramutse Rwanda\u2019 (Good Morning Rwanda), a morning show on Rwanda Television, Commissioner of Police (CP) John Bosco Kabera, Commissioner for Public Relations and Media and RNP spokesperson, said that although \u201csecurity remains intact across the country\u201d, reckless drivers continue to cause insecurity on roads, injuring and claiming lives, destroying public infrastructure and people\u2019s property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoad safety is still being challenged by unacceptable human behaviors especially drunk driving and drivers who disconnect speed governor devices so as to speed, another cause of fatal accidents,\u201d CP Kabera said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe advice is clear; when you drink don\u2019t drive, it is for your own safety and the safety of those you are driving or other people on the road. Everyone has to be safe on the road; we can\u2019t allow someone to be a security threat to other road users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drunk driving is a traffic offense that attracts a fine of Rwf150, 000 and detention under investigation while tampering with speed governor device attracts a fine of Rwf200, 000. If any of the offenses leads to another offense, the traffic offender faces additional fines as the law specifies.<\/p>\n<p>Drunk driving and tampering with speed governor also leads to confiscation of driver&#8217;s license and impounding the vehicle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32274 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/csm_cp_jb_kabera_d698f18003.jpg\" alt=\"Commissioner of Police (CP) John Bosco Kabera, Commissioner for Public Relations and Media and RNP spokesperson.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intensified operations against \u201cgrave traffic offenses\u201d in the City of Kigali led to the arrest of about 250 drivers over the weekend for either driving while drunk or disconnecting the speed governor device.<\/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-40034","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\/40034","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=40034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40034"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40034"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}