{"id":44693,"date":"2021-10-27T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/four-arrested-over-ivory-trafficking-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:25:59","slug":"four-arrested-over-ivory-trafficking-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/four-arrested-over-ivory-trafficking-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Four arrested over trafficking Ivory through Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspects paraded before the media on Wednesday 27th October 2021 include a Congolese national, who sneaked the elephant tusks into Rwanda from Bukavu town in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He was arrested in Rusizi district.<\/p>\n<p>The quartet include Desire Murokozi,  Derrick Gisa, Cyriaqu\u00e9 Kaburaburyo from Burundi and Nicodem Bagabo from DRC.  <\/p>\n<p>The four men sneaked the elephant tusks using a vehicle belonging to an official working with the power utility company of the Great Lakes Region known for its French alias as Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Internationale d\u2019Electricit\u00e9 des pays des Grands Lacs (SINELAC).<\/p>\n<p>It is said that they wanted to use Rwanda as a transit from where they would send elephant tusks to foreign countries.  <\/p>\n<p>Three of them have accused the official working with the company to have dragged them into the case. The official has however refuted the allegations explaining that he gave them a lift without checking their luggage.  <\/p>\n<p>RIB Spokesperson, Dr. Thierry B. Murangira has said that the suspects planned to traffic the tusks to Asia through Rwanda.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe four suspects were arrested at different times. They face charges including attempt to traffic 45kgs of elephant tusks through Rwanda. The tusks were seized in a vehicle belonging to an official working with SINELAC. The elephant tusks are not poached or sold in Rwanda but rather the country is used as a transit for such trade,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Murangira assured that the foiled trafficking is a testament that Rwanda has no place for peddlers.  <\/p>\n<p>If convicted, suspects are liable to a sentence between five and seven years behind bars and a fine between Rwf5 to Rwf7 million as per Rwanda&#8217;s Penal Code.   <\/p>\n<p>The suspects are detained at Kicukiro RIB Post awaiting their files to be transferred to the Prosecution.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39879 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ele-3.jpg\" alt=\"The 45kgs of elephant tusks have been seized in Rwanda.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39878 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arresr_tra.jpg\" alt=\"Suspects were paraded before the media on Wednesday 27th October 2021. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) has arrested four people over allegedly attempting to traffic elephant tusks through Rwanda. The quartet was arrested with 45 kilograms of Ivory.}<\/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-44693","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\/44693","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=44693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44693"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44693"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}