{"id":40214,"date":"2019-10-19T16:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T16:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwigamba-s-body-flown-to-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T09:52:03","slug":"rwigamba-s-body-flown-to-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwigamba-s-body-flown-to-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwigamba&#8217;s body flown to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His body arrived at Kigali International Airport aboard Ethiopian Airlines and taken to Kanombe Military Hospital&#8217;s mortuary. <\/p>\n<p>Rwigamba&#8217;s family has announced that the mourning is ongoing home at Gisimenti in Remera, Kigali city. <\/p>\n<p>Gen Andrew Rwigamba passed away on Thursday. He was prior to his demise working at the Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Late Rwigamba assumed different offices as the Commissioner General of Rwanda National Police prior to 2008 when he was relieved of his duties and replaced by Emmanuel Gasana in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The post was temporarily being filled by Deputy Commissioner General, Mary Gahonzire who was at the time appointed Head the National Prisons Services.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Rwigamba was sent to retirement from RDF at the rank of Brigadier General in October 2013 along with other senior and non-commissioned officers.<\/p>\n<p>He was among the first batch of senior officers sent into retirement that took part in stopping the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n<p>Following his retirement, Gen Rwigamba was appointed the Director-General in charge of Foreign Military Relations and Cooperation at the Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32847 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton124510-a548c.jpg\" alt=\"Gen Andrew Rwigamba passed away on Thursday. He was prior to his demise working at the Ministry of Defense.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body of late Brig Gen Andrew Rwigamba, the former chief of Rwanda National Police (RNP) arrived in Rwanda around 1 am from  Cairo International Medical Center in Egypt where he was transferred for treatment. <\/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-40214","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\/40214","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=40214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40214"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40214"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}