{"id":55574,"date":"2025-09-10T18:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-mininfra-permanent-secretary-gisele-umuhumuza-remanded-for-30-days\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:10:16","slug":"former-mininfra-permanent-secretary-gisele-umuhumuza-remanded-for-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-mininfra-permanent-secretary-gisele-umuhumuza-remanded-for-30-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MININFRA Permanent Secretary Gisele Umuhumuza remanded for 30 days"},"content":{"rendered":"

The court said there are substantial grounds to suspect her of corruption related charges allegedly committed during her tenure as the CEO of Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC).<\/p>\n

Umuhumuza faces charges including abuse of power, favoritism, and mismanaging public resources.<\/p>\n

In the same ruling, the court also ordered the detention of Dominique Murekezi, the former Managing Director of WASAC Development, for 30 days.<\/p>\n

By contrast, Vincent de Paul Mugwaneza, who previously managed water distribution projects at WASAC, was released on provisional bail. The court found no strong reasons to keep him in custody.<\/p>\n

Mugwaneza had faced accusations including soliciting sexual favors, abuse of power, favoritism, and failure to justify the source of his wealth. <\/p>\n

However, the judges concluded there was insufficient evidence to warrant his continued detention and ordered his immediate release following the verdict.<\/p>\n

The court reminded defendants that any appeal must be lodged within five days of the ruling being issued.<\/p>\n

This development is part of a broader corruption investigation at WASAC, coming after the arrest of former CEO Omar Munyaneza, who is currently serving a 30-day remand on related charges.<\/p>\n

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The Nyarugenge Primary Court has ordered the 30-day provisional detention of Gisele Umuhumuza, the former Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000094246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000094246,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umu-3.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umu-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umu-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umu-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umu-3.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/umu-3.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55574","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=55574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000094246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55574"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55574"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}