The suspects are Theoneste Mugabo, 42, arrested in Muhima, Nyarugenge District and Jean Bosco Musonera, 49, arrested in Rukuri II Cell of Remera Sector in Gasabo District.<\/p>\n
According to the Police spokesperson for the City of Kigali, Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Marie-Gorette Umutesi, based on information provided by the would-be victims, police arrested Mugabo red-handed receiving Rwf10, 000.<\/p>\n
\u201cMugabo, who is in-charge of night patrol (Irondo) and hygiene in Muhima sector, was at the time receiving Rwf10, 000 from someone, whom he had told that he would give him a job as a cleaner at Muhima sector offices,\u201d said CIP Umutesi.<\/p>\n
\u201cMusonera, on his part, was at the time receiving Rwf25, 000 from a man, whom he had promised to retrieve a television set which had been confiscated during police operations,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The television set was seized recently from one Antoine Ndacyayisenga, who repairs and deals in used TVs in an operation against theft of electronics.<\/p>\n
CIP Umutesi advised the public to go through legal processes to acquire services. She thanked the would-be victims for “standing up against corruption and providing information.”<\/p>\n
According to article 4 of the law on corruption, any person who solicits, accepts or receives, by any means, an illegal benefit for himself\/herself or another person or accepts a promise in order to render or omit a service under his or her mandate or uses his or her position to render or omit a service, commits an offense. <\/p>\n
Upon conviction, the offender is liable to imprisonment for a term of more than five years but not more than seven years with a fine of three to five times the value of the illegal benefit solicited received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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