{"id":44992,"date":"2021-12-16T06:05:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T06:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dr-munyakazi-handed-five-year-suspended-jail-term\/"},"modified":"2021-12-17T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T11:11:22","slug":"dr-munyakazi-handed-five-year-suspended-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dr-munyakazi-handed-five-year-suspended-jail-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Munyakazi handed five-year suspended jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was accused of abusing power and being a matchmaker in bribery scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Munyakazi was not presented as the court read the ruling on Wednesday 15th December 2021. <\/p>\n<p>He is co-accused with Abdu Gahima, a local businessman and owner of Good Harvest School, a private school located in the Kicukiro District.<\/p>\n<p>Nyarugenge Intermediate Court had sentenced Dr. Munyakazi for ten years and slapped him Rwf10 million fine on 16th October 2021 while Gahima was given five-year sentence and slapped Rwf2 million fine.  <\/p>\n<p>The ruling read on Wednesday saw the sentence handed to Munyakazi reduced by half.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, the court rejected Gahima\u2019s appeal and maintained his five-year jail term while the fine was reduced to Rwf 1.5 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40402 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/isaac.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Munyakazi has been handed five-year suspended jail term. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The High Court has handed five-year suspended sentence to the former state minister for primary and secondary education, Dr. Isaac Munyakazi and slapped him with Rwf3 million fine.}  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","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\/44992","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=44992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44992"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44992"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}