{"id":55373,"date":"2025-08-26T16:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rdf-trio-held-for-30-days-in-air-ticket-misuse-case-other-suspects-granted-bail\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:56:54","slug":"rdf-trio-held-for-30-days-in-air-ticket-misuse-case-other-suspects-granted-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rdf-trio-held-for-30-days-in-air-ticket-misuse-case-other-suspects-granted-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"RDF trio held for 30 days in air ticket misuse case; other suspects granted bail"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the same time, 25 other defendants, including journalists and Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) employees, have been released on bail.<\/p>\n

The case involves 28 individuals in total, including three RDF officers, two RCS staff, and several civilians, including sports journalists and APR FC supporters.<\/p>\n

The disputed tickets are linked to APR FC\u2019s trip to Egypt in September 2024 to play against Pyramids FC in the CAF Champions League, as well as other trips involving RCS officers.<\/p>\n

During a hearing on August 18, the prosecution requested 30 days\u2019 provisional detention for the defendants, while the accused asked to be tried without detention.<\/p>\n

Today, the military tribunal ruled that the three RDF officers\u2014Major Vincent Murigande, Captain Peninah Umurungi, and Captain Peninah Mutoni\u2014should remain in remand, citing sufficient grounds to justify continued detention.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the court granted provisional release to the other 25 defendants, including RCS officers CSP Hillary Sengabo and CSP Olive Mukantabana, journalists Reagan \u2018Rugaju\u2019 Ndayishimiye and Ricard Ishimwe, and former journalist Mucyo \u2018Antha\u2019 Biganiro, citing insufficient grounds to continue holding them in custody.<\/p>\n

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The Nyamirambo Military Court on Tuesday remanded three Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) officers to remain in custody for 30 days while investigations continue into the alleged misuse of Ministry of Defence funds to purchase airline tickets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000093238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","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":{"id":2000093238,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/urukiko-11-c69cd.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/urukiko-11-c69cd.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/urukiko-11-c69cd.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/urukiko-11-c69cd.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/urukiko-11-c69cd.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/urukiko-11-c69cd.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55373","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000093238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55373"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55373"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}