{"id":848,"date":"2011-09-20T11:17:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/police-witness-disagree-on-shooting-at-oppostion\/"},"modified":"2011-09-21T04:08:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T04:08:03","slug":"police-witness-disagree-on-shooting-at-oppostion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/police-witness-disagree-on-shooting-at-oppostion\/","title":{"rendered":"Police, Witness Disagree On Shooting At Oppostion Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{The national police spokesman Superintendent Theo\u2019s Badege has said that Eric Nshimiyimana({photo below}) health condition is stable. He was shot Thursday evening by a plain cloth policeman after resisting to be searched.}}<\/p>\n

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However, Sup. Badege\u2019s remarks contradict that of eye witness Desire who didn\u2019t want to disclose his second name pending sensitivity of the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo…no I won\u2019t tell you my name but what I can assure you is that a motorcycle taxi carrying a man stopped close to Nshimiyimana and shot him in the chest. Later the armed passenger pressed a pistol onto him and immediately shot his own hand perhaps to fake that it was a gun battle, yet Nshimiyimana never resisted. I can\u2019t add more about this,\u201d said the eye witness.<\/p>\n

However, Sup. Badege refutes the eye witness account saying, \u201cWhat I was informed is that a resident of Gikondo\u2019s Sodoma area alerted police that Nshimiyimana was carrying illegal stuff in his bag.”<\/p>\n

“When Policeman alighted from motorcycle and stopped him, Nshimiyimana resisted and turned violent when the policeman pointed a pistol at him. It is through the tussle that the policeman fired a bullet which injured his hand and went straight to Nshimiyimana chest,\u201d he disclosed.<\/p>\n

Sup. Badege further stressed that indeed Nshimiyimana a member of Parti Social Imberakuri a political party which associates itself with the opposition, was found in possession with a pistol and twelve bullets.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe eyewitness must be lying because at first a resident alerted the police and when we did our investigation we found that this guy was certainly carrying a firearm,\u201d said Badege.<\/p>\n

Currently, Injured Nshimiyimana is recovering at Kacyiru police hospital and only a few family members are allowed to see him, while members of the press and his party colleagues are restricted from seeing him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll inform you the right time for journalists to meet him, currently we\u2019re investigating his case,\u201d Badege remarked.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s still dilemma in the shooting of Nshimiyimana, political parties in the country who consider themselves as the opposition have been silently protesting the matter. And among them is FDU Ikingi party that issued a press release yesterday condemning the shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call upon the government to make sure that security personnel do not use their positions to intimidate people; to prosecute the life attempt against opposition members and to ensure that rules of engagement are clear and respected,\u201d stated FDU-Inkingi Interim Vice President Boniface Twagirimana.<\/p>\n

{Parti Social Imberakuri} secretary general Immaculate Uwizeye highlighted that they are seeking international support to sue the government concerning the shooting of its party member.<\/p>\n

\u201cyou see in Rwanda we\u2019re like a cat and we can\u2019t fight with government which is a Leopard that\u2019s why we\u2019re seeking some support from outside, but at this point I won\u2019t disclose people who have shown interest in helping us, what I can assure you is that justice will prevail,\u201d revealed Uwizeye.<\/p>\n

In response to the opposition Sup. Badege bluffed their concerns adding that it would be better if they sued the government instead of destroying the police image by sending deceitful information to some the international media who also have a record of reporting negatively about Rwanda\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wonder why these political parties are exaggerating this matter yet they know very well they are associated to terror activities and one of them is Victoire Ingabire the head of FDU Ikingi who is in court for similar cases,\u201d noted Sup. Badege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{{The national police spokesman Superintendent Theo\u2019s Badege has said that Eric Nshimiyimana({photo below}) health condition is stable. He was shot Thursday evening by a plain cloth policeman after resisting to be searched.}} However, Sup. Badege\u2019s remarks contradict that of eye witness Desire who didn\u2019t want to disclose his second name pending sensitivity of the matter. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","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":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","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":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}