{"id":8641,"date":"2013-06-23T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T08:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/police-warns-against-plant-smuggling\/"},"modified":"2013-06-23T08:59:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T08:59:02","slug":"police-warns-against-plant-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/police-warns-against-plant-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Warns Against Plant Smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Police has impounded a truck carrying about 4 tonnes of a premature {Umushikiri} plants from Bugesera District destined for Uganda where they are sold at a higher price.}}<\/p>\n<p>{Umushikiri} is mainly found in Bugesera District, is a raw material perfume and lotion production.<\/p>\n<p>The plants are transported through porous borders in Nyagatare District and sold to Ugandan businessmen and later exported to Asian countries, especially Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Emmanuel Karuranga, the Eastern Region Spokesperson warned people involved this crime.<\/p>\n<p>He said the culprits will be heavily punished once they are caught.  \u201cCutting trees without permission from relevant authorities is a crime just like any other crimes and is punishable by the Rwandan laws\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He called upon citizens to share information with the Police and local authorities about any person suspected to be involved in this crime.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal cutting and trafficking of tree species is punishable by law. Punishments range from six months to three years in jail and or a fine of Rwf200, 000 or Rwf3 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3039 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bbvf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Police has impounded a truck carrying about 4 tonnes of a premature {Umushikiri} plants from Bugesera District destined for Uganda where they are sold at a higher price.}} {Umushikiri} is mainly found in Bugesera District, is a raw material perfume and lotion production. The plants are transported through porous borders in Nyagatare District and sold [&hellip;]<\/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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8641","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\/8641","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=8641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8641"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8641"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}