{"id":42355,"date":"2020-12-04T05:49:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/no-one-is-above-the-law-ombudsman-nirere-on-big-fish\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T05:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:49:00","slug":"no-one-is-above-the-law-ombudsman-nirere-on-big-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/no-one-is-above-the-law-ombudsman-nirere-on-big-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"No one is above the law- Ombudsman Nirere on &#8216;big fish&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ombudsman made the strong observation yesterday after taking over office from the outgoing ombudsman, Anastase Murekezi.  <\/p>\n<p>Nirere assured that she will respect guidance from President Paul Kagame who officiated her swearing-in ceremony recently.  <\/p>\n<p>As she commented on her projections towards fighting corruption especially among top officials perceived as \u2018big fish\u2019, the new ombudsperson explained that  it will be driven by an inclusive approach.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no big and small fish before the law.   Whoever commits a crime goes below the law and must be held accountable. The laws are clear and the most important thing is applying them appropriately considering that bribery is an imprescriptible crime\u201d she said.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot accuse someone without evidence.  People will have to always explain the source of wealth.  If the wealth was obtained through corruption, it will be automatically taken over by the state,\u201d she noted. <\/p>\n<p>The ombudsperson office will continue to encourage citizens to report leaders suspected of corruption as a way of completely eradicating the vice. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone should play their role to weed out corruption,\u201d said Nirere.   <\/p>\n<p>Nirere was appointed by the Cabinet Meeting of 11th November 2020 becoming the fourth ombudsman since the institution was created in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>She recently completed her two four-year terms as the President of National Human Right Commission where she was replaced by Marie Claire Mukasine.<\/p>\n<p>Previous ombudspersons include Anastase Murekezi who held office between 2017 and 2020, Aloysie Cyanzayire (2014 \u2013 2017) and Tito Rutaremara (2004 \u2013 2012).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37313 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ombudsman-2.jpg\" alt=\"Nirere took over yesterday from the outgoing ombudsman, Anastase Murekezi.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Ombudsperson, Madeleine Nirere has said that no one should be perceived as a big fish highlighting that Rwanda\u2019s laws are clear and need to be reinforced appropriately.  } <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-42355","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\/42355","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42355"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42355"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}