It is alleged that after teaching job entry exams held on 6th May 2019; Dukuzimana commissioned a person who called all successful candidates soliciting bribes promising to get them approved to their respective posts.
Dukuzimana was caught red handed on 21st May 2019 receiving Rwf 200,000 related to the aforementioned case.
The spokesperson of Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB), Modeste Mbabazi has said that investigations are underway to seize more suspects involved in the case.
“He was arrested along with the person who brought Rwf 200,000 bribe at home. Investigations are underway,” he said.
IGIHE has learned that more people admitted to jobs after offering bribes to Dukuzimana went into hiding.
Uwimana Faustin and Dukuzimana Hermogene are detained RIB station in Mukamira.
Rwanda penal code stipulates that any person, who solicits, accepts or receives, by any means, an illegal benefit for himself/ herself or another person or accepts a promise in order to render or omit a service under his or her mandate or uses his or her position to render or omit a service commits an offense.
Upon conviction, he/she is liable to imprisonment for a term of more than five (5) years but not more than seven (7) years with a fine of three (3) to five (5) times the value of the illegal benefit solicited received.
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