Rwanda sacks senior police officers amid corruption allegations
Description: New officers of Rwanda National Police at a pass-out parade.
Over 50 senior police officers have left the force amid speculation that the
move is aimed at kicking out suspected corrupt officers. PHOTO | CYRIL
NDEGEYA
New officers of Rwanda National Police at a pass-out parade. Over 50 senior
police officers have left the force amid speculation that the move is aimed
at kicking out suspected corrupt officers. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA
By Correspondent Rwanda Today
Posted Saturday, August 23 2014 at 13:32
Over 50 senior police officers have left the force amid speculation that the
move is aimed at kicking out suspected corrupt officers.
The officers include CSP Emmanuel Kayiranga and SSP Albert Gakara Ndatsikira
who were both directors of intelligence in the Criminal Investigations
Department. The duo had been accused of corruption after cash they had
siezed from suspects disappeared.
President Paul Kagame earlier this month signed a Presidential Order N°
110/01 of 15/07/2014 which laid off 56 senior police offers on the request
of the minister for internal security. 18 more officers were dismissed.
Rwanda national police remained tight-lipped over the dismissal with the
police spokesperson Damas Gatare saying that these are standard procedures
in any police force, where people whose service is deemed not fit to serve
are allowed to leave the force.
However, he said those dismissed were relieved of their duties for reasons
ranging from discipline, misconduct and corruption among others reasons.
Some officers he said, had applied for retirement from the force for
different reasons including medical conditions, age or other personal
reasons which the ministry and police looked into before they were allowed
to leave, said Mr Gatare.
Prior to his suspension in April 2013, CSP Kayiranga was the Director of
Intelligence at CID and previously had served as the police spokesperson.
SSP Gakara on the other hand was the head of intelligence in Kigali.
The duo were suspended and briefly detained on suspicion of embezzling over
Rwf20 million which they had seized from robbery suspects. The suspected
robbers in question were arrested in December 2012 in Rwanda after they
allegedly stole $1 million from Goma in DR Congo.
It is understood that the two officers, who were leading the operation to
arrest the thugs, transferred the said amount to their personal accounts.
However the movement was detected.
At the time of their arrest, the spokesperson of the prosecution Alain
Mukuralinda confirmed that the two officers were being investigated on
charges of poor handling of exhibits.
Details
The presidential order, however, does not divulge details of why the
officers left the force.
Only nine officers were sent to retirement and they include the former
Commissioner of Police Steven Barinda.
Allegations of corruption in police remain rampant even though RNP maintains
that it has strengthened internal mechanisms to rout out the vice.
The 2013 Corruption and Bribery Index by Transparency International put
police as the most corrupt institution, ahead of decentralised entities and
the judiciary. However, RNP was ranked the least corrupt police institution
in the East African Community.
Other high ranking officers laid off include ACP Joël Ndahiro, SSP
Christophe Ntaganira, SSP Hermes Murayire and SSP AnnonciataMukahigiro among
others.
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