Two brothers held as 80 kg of cannabis seized in Kicukiro
Police recovered over 80 kg of cannabis from a house in Nyakabanda cell, Niboye sector, on 15 May 2014 and took two brothers into custody. One of the men had reportedly been imprisoned five times before over drugs.
🇷🇼 Nyakabanda Cell, Niboye Sector, Kicukiro District · Rwanda
The Rwanda National Police recovered over 80 kg of cannabis from a house in Nyakabanda cell of Niboye sector, Kicukiro, and took two brothers, D’Amour Iyakaremye and Kimaki Mbagariye, into custody after the seizure on Thursday 15 May 2014.[1]Iyakaremye had reportedly been imprisoned about five times before in connection with drugs, and his wife was serving a sentence at Kigali’s central prison after conviction for trafficking cannabis.[1]
The seizure was announced alongside a police call for the public to help fight drug trafficking, which the force linked to porous borders and other crimes.[1]Four other people, including three motorcycle operators, were caught separately transporting illicit gin, and their motorcycles were confiscated.[1]
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