{"id":42902,"date":"2021-02-18T09:47:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T09:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/sheikh-habimana-in-bizarre-money-theft-scandal-arrested\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T10:45:39","slug":"sheikh-habimana-in-bizarre-money-theft-scandal-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/sheikh-habimana-in-bizarre-money-theft-scandal-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Habimana in bizarre money theft scandal, arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Hamdan Habimana is currently the deputy president of Arsenal fans in Rwanda and the president of Ijabo Ryawe Rwanda Association.  <\/p>\n<p>As an umbrella body that brings together all local football academies and training centres, Ijabo Ryawe is also a member of the Rwanda Football Federation (FERWAFA).<\/p>\n<p>He has been arrested in Huye district, Southern Province following the complaint filed to RIB on 14th February 2021. <\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of RIB, Dr Murangira B. Thierry has told IGIHE that Habimana is suspected to have committed the crime last week.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHabimana Hamdam, 45, is investigated for money theft crime. It is said that   he stole the money from a journalist working with B&#038;B FM- Umwezi. The theft took place in Kinyinya sector, Gasabo district on 13th February 2021,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>B&#038;B FM- Umwezi journalists have through a talk show dubbed B&#038;B Sports Plateau revealed details of the theft.   <\/p>\n<p>It is said that Uwimana\u2019s money was stolen from a car she left in parking of B&#038;B FM- Umwezi premises to participate in a talk show.  <\/p>\n<p>As she returned, Uwimana missed her money.  <\/p>\n<p>This prompted them to review records of CCTV Cameras installed in the parking and established that Sheikh Hamdan Habimana opened the car using another key. <\/p>\n<p>Imfurayiwacu Jean Luc, a journalist working with B&#038;B Fm Umwezi, explained that, CCTV footages showed that Sheikh Habimana entered the car at 12:22 in which he spent 48 seconds.  <\/p>\n<p>Since then, Uwimana and the management of the radio rushed to alert security officials.  <\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Hamdan Habimana is detained at Kinyinya RIB station waiting for his case to be transferred to the prosecution.  <\/p>\n<p>If convicted, he is liable to a sentence between one year and two years, fine between Rwf 1 million and Rwf 2 million, community service for six months or one of these penalties as per article 166 of Rwanda\u2019s Penal Code. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37820 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sheikh_hamdan_habimana_wabaye_mu_buyobozi_bwa_mukura_akurikiranyweho_kwiba_amafaranga_y_umunyamakuru_uwimana_clarisse.jpg\" alt=\"Sheikh Hamdan Habimana has been arrested.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) has arrested Sheikh Hamdan Habimana who once served as the Secretary General of Mukura Victory Sports for allegedly stealing money of Clarisse Uwimana, a journalist with local radio station known as B&#038;B FM- Umwezi. } <\/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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/42902","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=42902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42902"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42902"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}