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“Je sais qu’on va me traiter de tous les maux mais j’ose le dire. Au sein de la RURA, il doit y avoir des cadres soucieux de voir les citoyens faire de la désobéissance civile à cause des prix surélevés des services de transport. On se demande sur quel critères ils fixent ces prix. Et pourquoi tous les utilisateurs des services de transport en commun se plaignent et se lamentent de l’inaccessibilité de ces services”, a dit Immaculée Ingabire, présidente de Transparency International Rwanda Chapter accusant ces officiels de RURA d’être à l’écoute des gros investisseurs en transport en commun, ceux-là même qui ont fait de ce secteur uun monopole.

Bien avant elle, de grands noms de la société civile dont le Député Frank Habineza, la chanteuse Clarisse Karassira, la modéliste Shadia Mbabazi alias Shadboo avaient protesté contre cette hausse des prix de transport sur leurs comptes twitter.

Un gouvernement à l’écoute de la société civile

“J’ai cherché la cause de cette hausse mais je ne l’ai pas trouvée. De un le prix de l’essence à la pompe n’est pas monté. Au contraire il a baissé. Et cela partout au monde. Mais voilà ! RURA, dans sa plénipotence de par le pouvoir que lui confère la loi, a décidé de hausser les prix de services de transport”, s’est révoltée la dame trouvant qu’il est grand temps de hausser la voix pour que le Capital rwandais ne continue pas d’empuantir l’atmosphère sociale.

“Je demande aux élus du peuple rwandais dont le Président de la République et les députés de bien étudier cette situation intenable”,a-t-elle ajouté jouant pleinement son rôle d’alerte.
Du côté de RURA, la chanson est la même. “Le principe est que chaque année la grille des prix des services de transport sont actualisés”, a dit le Dr Benjamin Rutimirwa qui va dans la logique que du fait du déséquilible de la balance commerciale enregistré chaque année en terme d’import-export et donc de dépréciation du franc rwandais face au dollar, les prix sont condamnés à la hausse.

Donc les investisseurs rwandais tiennent haut le pavé. Face à cette pression de la société civile, RURA sur ordre de la Primature rwandaise, a décidé que les prix reviennement momentanément à ce qu’ils étaient avant l’apparition de la pandémie du Codid 19.
Mais jusque à quand ?
Quelles sont les stratégies arrêtées pour résorber le déséquilibre de la balance commerciale du pays ? C’est là la clé de ce gros défi.

NDJ

Inzego zitandukanye zikomeje gushyira imbaraga mu gukumira no guhiga bukware abasore n’abagabo basambanya abakobwa batarageza imyaka nyuma y’uko byagaragaye ko mu bihe bya Guma mu rugo bakomeje kwiyongera.

Binyuze kuri twitter ya RIB, kuri uyu wa Gatanu tariki 23 Ukwakira 2020, uru rwego rwatangaje ko ku bufatanye n’izindi nzego rwataye muri yombi abagabo 10 bo muri Rusizi bakekwaho gukora aya mahano.

Itangazo rya RIB rigira riti 'Uyu munsi RIB ifatanyije n’izindi nzego mu Karere ka #Rusizi yafashe abagabo 10 bakekwaho gusambanya abangavu bakabatera inda.'

Abafashwe ubu bafungiye kuri sitasiyo ya RIB ya Muganza mu gihe iperereza rikomeje kugirango hakorwe amadosiye ashyikirizwa Ubushinjacyaha.

RIB iboneyeho kongera kwihanangiriza umuntu wese ushora abana n’abangavu mu busambanyi kuko bibagiraho ingaruka mbi ku buzima no kubabuza ejo hazaza heza kandi inibutsa ko ari icyaha gihanisha ibihano bikomeye uwagikoze.

Uyu munsi RIB ifatanyije n’izindi nzego mu Karere ka #Rusizi yafashe abagabo 10 bakekwaho gusambanya abangavu bakabatera inda.

Abafashwe ubu bafungiye kuri sitasiyo ya RIB ya Muganza mu gihe iperereza rikomeje kugirango hakorwe amadosiye ashyikirizwa Ubushinjacyaha.

— Rwanda Investigation Bureau (@RIB_Rw) October 23, 2020

Haruna Niyonzima arasabwa gukora ibikomeye muri Yanga

Umutoza mushya w’ikipe ya Yanga yo muri Tanzania, Kaze Cedric yasabye abakinnyi barimo Haruna Niyonzima bashinzwe gutanga imipira ivamo ibitego kuri ba rutahizamu kongera iyo mipira kuko ari bo batuma ikipe itarimo gutsinda ibitego byinshi.

Aganira na Championi, Kaze yavuze ko urwego rwa ba rutahizamu Yanga ifite ari rwiza akaba ababona ko aba bakinnyi bananiwe gukora ibyo basabwa bitewe n’abakinnyi bagomba kubashakira imipira yo gutsinda.

Ati'kuva nkiri muri Canada nari mbizi ko ikibazo kiri mu ikipe ari ikibazo cy’ubusatirizi butabasha gutsinda ibitego byinshi. Ni ikibazo ngomba gushakira umuti byihuse. Ba rutahizamu Sarpong na Yacouba bigaragara ko bananiwe gutsinda bitewe n’abakinnyi bo hagati bananiwe kuzuza inshingano zabo neza harimo kubaha imipira myiza yo gutsinda.'

Yakomeje avuga ko yatangiye gukora kuri iki kibazo ku buryo abakinnyi bafite izi nshingano nka Haruna Niyonzima, Feisal Salum, Mkoko Tonombe na Carlos Fernandez 'Carlinhos’ arimo gukora ibishoboka byose ngo buzuze inshingano zabo.

Mu mikino ya sampiyona 6 Yanga imaze gutsindamo imikino 5 inganya umwe, muri iyo mukino yose ikaba yarinjije ibitego 7.

Haruna Niyonzima ni umwe mu bakinnyi basabwe gukora cyane

Nyuma yo kuvuga ko azagaruka mu kibuga nyuma y’ibyumweru 3 kubera imvune, rutahizamu w’umunyarwanda Meddie Kagere ukinira Simba SC yijeje abakunzi b’iyi kipe ko arimo gukira ndetse mu minsi mike ari bube yatangiye imyitozo.

Uyu rutahizamu yagize ikibazo cy’imvune ku mukino wa JKT Tanzania banatsinze 4-0 atsindamo ibitego wabaye ku wa 4 Ukwakira.

Nyuma y’aho ubuyobozi bwa Simba SC bwatangaje ko azamara hanze ibyumweru 3 akabona gutangira imyitozo, byari byitezwe ko azatangira imyitozo ku wa 6 Ugushyingo 2020, bivuze ko atari kuzakina umukino wa Yanga uzaba ku wa 7 Ugushyingo ndetse n’uwo u Rwanda ruzakinamo na Cape Verde tariki ya 11 Ugushyingo 2020 mu gushaka itike y’igikombe cy’Afurika cya 2022.

Uyu rutahizamu akaba yahumurije abakunzi ba Simba SC n’ab’Amavubi ko mu minsi ya vuba ari buze gutangira imyitozo iyo mikino akazayikina.

Yagize ati'nyuma yo kuvunika ubu ndi mu mwanya wo kugenda nkira neza. Nahawe iminsi yo kuruhuka nzagaruka mu myitozo bisanzwe mu minsi mike rwose iri imbere. Nta mpamvu yo guhangayika.'

Meddie Kagere akaba ari ku rutonde rw’abakinnyi ba Simba SC bagize imvune barimo Gerson Fraga, John Bocco ariko we yatangiye imyitozo yoroheje na Cris Mugalu wagize ikibazo cy’igupfa ry’ikibero aho rirangirira.

Meddie Kagere yamaze impungenge abatekerezaga ko azamara igihe kinini hanze y’ikibuga

Hakizimana was arrested red-handed in Gatore Sector, Cyunuzi Cell, where he was found digging up the electric rods.

He was also found with other metals and tubes, which he allegedly stole from pylons, according to Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Hamdun Twizeyimana, the police spokesperson for the Eastern region.

'Residents in Gatore have been reporting these acts of vandalising electric infrastructure, and suspected Hakizimana to be behind them” CIP Twizeyimana said.

He added: “In the morning of October 19, a resident called the Police after seeing Hakizimana vandalising pylons. Police officers found him unearthing lightning rods but had already cut other metals and tubes from other pylons.”

Hakizimana was also recently reported by Rwanda Energy Group (REG) officials in Kirehe, who had found him unearthing lightning rods from pylons.

At the time, Hakizimana escaped from the REG officials, who tried to apprehend and hand him over to law enforcement organs.

The spokesperson lauded the support of Kirehe community policing partners, who disclosed the destruction and facilitated the arrest of the prime suspect.

Hakizimana was handed over to Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) for further legal process.

According to article 182 of the law relating to offences and penalties in general in Rwanda, 'any person, who maliciously demolishes or damages in any way, in whole or in part of construction, building, bridge, dams, water pipes and their routes, railway rails or any other means of communication or electric power infrastructure, wells or any other constructions, which do not belong to him/her, commits an offence.

Upon conviction, he/she is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than three (3) years and not more than five (5) years with a fine of not less than Frw3 million and not more than Frw5 million.

IGIHE

At about 11 am on Thursday, October 22, Police officers raided the house where skin whitening lotions, soaps and oils that filled three pick-up vehicles, were recovered.
Three people including the owner of the store identified as Eric Mizero, one of his suppliers Lousie Sinumvayabo and another dealer called Jesca Kamaliza, were arrested in the process.

Mizero was also arrested red-handed handing over Frw850,000, which is part of Frw1 million bribe he had promised Police officers so as to prevent his arrest and seizure of his illegal goods.

The seized banned products were in various brands including Diana, White Max, Peau Jaune, Diproson and Naomi.

Others include Carolight, Faiza Beauty cream, Epiderm cream, Extra Claire and Coco pulp.

Mizero explained that his suppliers bring the products clandestinely in small quantities to prevent being detected.

One of the suspects, Sinumvayabo had at the time brought new consignments of skin whitening products.

Mizero and Kamaliza also have shops in Biryogo, Nyamirambo which deal in skin bleaching products.

RNP spokesperson, CP John Bosco Kabera said that these are acts of fraud, trafficking of banned and dangerous products, illegal cross-border during the process of smuggling or trafficking, and bribery, all which are punishable by law.

“This is what we normally say; besides evading taxes, smuggling also brings into market outlawed and harmful products like these lotions, which were identified as dangerous to human skin and health in general, and ultimately banned in Rwanda,” CP Kabera said.

The seized whitening products are among the 1,342 listed cream and oil brands with hydroquinone and mercury, which are prohibited in Rwanda.

The skin bleaching products are labeled illegal under the ministerial order determining the list of cosmetics, whose use is prohibited in Rwanda; the law on organization, functioning, and competence of the Council of Pharmacists; and the law relating to the regulation and inspection of food and pharmaceutical products.

Mercury and hydroquinone cause liver damage, reduce resistance to bacterial and fungal infections, and increase anxiety, according to the World Health Organization.

If it enters the bloodstream, it also results into fatal liver and kidney damage, although medics say the most immediate visible side effect is skin scarring.

Health experts confirm that prolonged use of corticosteroid creams and lotions can also decrease levels of collagen in the skin.

Collagen strengthens and supports the skin, and a reduced amount can increase the risk of striae commonly known as stretch marks.

“We have been carrying out awareness against sell and use of banned creams and oils with mercury and hydroquinone, but also against bribery and corruption in general. Those, who have kept deaf ears like these three people, will face the law.
We thank people, who continue to share information on such unlawful acts and call for enhanced spirit of community policing against these illegal practices,” CP Kabera said.

Seized outlawed products are normally disposed of.

However, under the East African Community Management Act, which is applicable in Rwanda, seized smuggled goods under article 199, are auctioned.

According to article 4 of the Law on Fighting Against Corruption, any person who offers, solicits, accepts or receives, by any means, an illegal benefit for himself/herself or another person in order to render or omit a service under his or her mandate, commits an offense.

Upon conviction, the offender is liable to imprisonment for a term of between five years and seven years, with a fine of three to five times the value of the illegal benefit solicited or received.

IGIHE

He made the remarks on Thursday while officiating at the swearing-in ceremony of six new Senators who have joined the upper house.

Addressing participants at the swearing-in ceremony of the senators, President Kagame said that while the country is coming out of the crisis caused by Coronavirus, it is unlikely that everything will return to normal.

'I have been seeing people cry out about the problems of transport, that it is expensive. It’s a problem because when following closely on the matter of this pandemic we are now facing, as we are moving out of it, not all things can automatically go back to the way they used to be, that is why it is important to inform the public the importance of the decisions you are taking.' he said.

President Kagame said the demands of the people were being considered but stressed that even the resumption of movements, and more activities resuming is also a good step.

'Try to explain to the public that we are doing everything we can, that there is nothing we would not do to try and reduce the impact of these problems but that they should also look elsewhere and that solutions to problems are not always easy to find, it requires patience and good work from all of us,' he advised.

Nicole Kamanzi M.