Rtd CSP Gashagaza was found dead in the night of Tuesday, September 18, 2018 in Ndera Sector of Kicukiro District, Kigali.
Speaking to IGIHE, the Spokesperson of the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB), Modeste Mbabazi said: “Following investigations after the murder of CSP Hubert Gashagaza, RIB has arrested two suspects in connection with his death as we pursue other leads as well.”
He said that CSP Hubert Gashagaza, who was the Rwanda National Police (RNP) Spokesperson in the Southern Province before his retirement, might have been strangled.
The identities of the suspects have not been yet revealed.
“The first person to report his death was a motorcyclist who saw him dead in the car around 5a.m. The driver’s window glass was smashed. The victim was found dead with cables that might have been used to strangle him around his neck still in the car,” he told IGIHE on the day Gashagaza’s body was found in his car.
The body was found in Ndera sector, Kicukiro District, where Chinese workers park trucks on a Murram road, about 100 meters from the tarmac road.
Gashagaza had been demobilized from the National Police in August 2016 but was serving in the Rwanda’s Army Reserve Force “Inkeragutabara”.
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