{"id":48045,"date":"2023-05-10T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/moses-turahirwa-pleads-guilty-to-drug-abuse\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T06:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:22:05","slug":"moses-turahirwa-pleads-guilty-to-drug-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/moses-turahirwa-pleads-guilty-to-drug-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Turahirwa pleads guilty to drug abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turahirwa also admitted to being found in possession of cannabis at the time of his arrest, but claimed that it was found in a shirt he hadn&#8217;t worn in a long time. He was arrested in April 2023 on charges of drug abuse and forgery.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) had confirmed that Turahirwa tested positive for cannabis, which is illegal in Rwanda, following a photo he shared on social media showing a passport labeling him as a feminine person.<\/p>\n<p>Turahirwa claimed that consumption of marijuana is not illegal in Italy, but this defense is not valid in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>As for forgery charges, Turahirwa said that the altered copy of the passport he shared was done for &#8220;artistic&#8221; purposes during the filming of his project &#8220;Kwanda Season I.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the copy he shared did not have a passport number and that he never attempted to use it.<\/p>\n<p>Turahirwa apologized for any confusion he caused, stating that he deleted the altered passport when he realized it could be misinterpreted. <\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that removing the passport number and deleting the photo should not be sufficient evidence to incriminate him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47725 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp-image-2023-05-10-at-11.20.44-1536x1152.jpg\" alt=\"Moses Turahirwa appeared before Nyarugenge Primary Court on Wednesday. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Moses Turahirwa, the founder of Moshions fashion house, has pleaded guilty to drug abuse charges and admitted to smoking marijuana during his two-year stay in Italy. He appeared before Nyarugenge Primary Court for a bail hearing on Wednesday, May 10, 2023.}<\/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-48045","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\/48045","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=48045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48045"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=48045"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=48045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}