{{Residents of Nyakabanda cell, Niboyi sector in Kicukiro district apprehended and handed over to Police a man suspected of camouflaging as a district employee and conning traders. }}
Aimé Emmanuel Nsengiyumva, a resident of Rusororo sector in Gasabo District was arrested on May 12 trying to solicit bribes from Emerta Dusabimana and Pierre Ndayisenga, whom he threatened to penalize for using polythene bags.
Use of plastic bags is illegal and punishable by the law in Rwanda.
He is currently detained at Kicukiro Police station as investigations continue.
The would-be victims own shops in the area.
It is alleged that the suspect first went to Dusabimana’s shop and introduced himself as a district employee conducting an inspection on the use of plastic bags and demanded Rwf50, 000 to drop the likely penalties, which she promised to pay later.
Nsengiyumva also continued to Ndayisenga’s shop where he made same threats. On suspicion that he could be fraudster, people who were in the shop apprehended him after he failed to produce his identifications as they had demanded.
They then handed him over to Community Policing Committee (CPC) in the area, who in turn handed him over to Police.
The suspect, who confesses to the act, argued that he used the illegal move to get money to cater for his mother’s medical bills.
The District Police Commander, Chief Inspector of Police Anasthase Karango thanked the residents for the “brave act to ask for identifications.”
He appealed to the public and the business community in particular to always demand identifications from people they don’t know, who claims to be working for certain institutions and on an official duty, to avoid falling prey of the likely fraudsters.
RNP
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