The trio was at the time arrested with combined 875 pellets of cannabis. They are Vianney Ndikumana, 28, and Fabien Hakorimana, 31, arrested red handed with 431 pellets while wJosiane Mukeshimana, 21, was found in possession of 444 pellets of cannabis.
The Southern region Police spokesperson, Superintendent of Police (SP) Theobald Kanamugire said that Police, acting on credible information from the public, first arrested Fabien Hakorimana and Vianney Nkundimana with 431 pellets.
“Police had received information at about 8:30pm about two drug dealers, who were in the process to supply narcotics. Police swiftly conducted the operation and arrested Hakorimana with 131 pellets of cannabis which he was going to sell to the clients in Nyagacaca village,” said SP Kanamugire.
He added: “Following his arrest, Hakorimana disclosed that he got the narcotics from Nkundimana, the supplier, who was also located and arrested at his home with 300 pellets of cannabis. Police also proceeded and searched Josiane Mukeshimana’s house, who is a neighbor to Nkundimana and a suspected drug dealer, where they recovered 444 pellets and took her into custody,” said SP Kanamugire.
Further investigations indicate that Vianney Nkundimana is the major drug dealer in Kamonyi and had trafficked the narcotics from another distributor in Gisenyi, Rubavu District to supply local retailers, including Hakorimana and Mukeshimana.
SP Kanamugire lauded the impact of community policing through information sharing, which facilitates to identify and arrest drug dealers and breaking their rings.
The suspects along with the narcotics were handed over to RIB at Runda station for further legal process.
The Ministerial order nº 001/MoH/2019 of 04/03/2019 establishing the list of narcotic drugs and their categorisation classifies cannabis in the category of “very severe narcotics.’’
Article 263 of law No. 68/2018 of 30/08/2018 determining offenses and penalties in general states that any person, who unlawfully produces, transforms, transports, stores, gives to another or who sells narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, commits an offence.
Upon conviction for very severe narcotics, the offender faces between 20 years and life imprisonment, and a fine of up to Rwf30 million.
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