102 kg of cannabis seized in Kirehe and Nyabihu operations
Rwanda National Police operations on 26 and 27 November 2020 seized a combined 102 kg of cannabis in Kirehe and Nyabihu districts. Officers arrested a motorcyclist with 30 kg in Mukamira after he resisted a roadblock, while four traffickers abandoned 72 kg smuggled from Burundi across the Akagera River and fled.
🇷🇼 Gahara Sector, Kirehe and Mukamira Sector, Nyabihu · Rwanda
Rwanda National Police operations against major dealers on 26 and 27 November
2020 netted a combined 102 kg of cannabis in Kirehe and Nyabihu districts.[1]In Nyabihu, officers intercepted Francois Niyonzima, 34, in Mukamira
Sector on 27 November trafficking30 kg of cannabis on a motorcycle.[1]Niyonzima, a commercial motorcyclist from Kinigi Sector in Musanze District,
refused to stop at a police roadblock, threw a bundle of cannabis into the
road to cause mayhem and lead the trailing police vehicle into an accident,
and was handed to the Rwanda Investigation Bureau station at Mukamira for
further process.[1]
In Kirehe, police foiled the trafficking of two sacks holding 72 kg of
cannabis being sneaked into Rwanda from Burundi through the Akagera River in
Gahara Sector.[1]Four traffickers carrying the sacks abandoned them and
fled back to Burundi when they saw the officers, after local authorities in
Murehe Cell reported them.[1]The four were said to be Burundi nationals.[1]
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Police in Gakenke arrested five men and seized 10 kg of cannabis in Kabutwa on 22 October 2026. Police said the group was also suspected of distributing illicit gin, and all five remained in custody as investigations continued.
Rwanda's anti-narcotics unit arrested two women of one trafficking ring on 25 April 2019 in Rubavu and Nyarugenge districts. Officers recovered ten bales weighing over 125 kg whose owners escaped, plus 1,230 pellets a teenager had just carried across the DR Congo border.
Police intercepted a car on the Rubavu–Nyabihu road carrying 320 kg of cannabis and a motorcycle in Rubavu carrying 80 kg, after residents tipped them off. The drivers escaped, but police said they had identified the traffickers.
Police in Kigali recovered 13 sacks holding about 450 kg of cannabis from a one-bedroom house in Kimisagara on 19 March 2017 and arrested three men, including the storekeeper and a motorcyclist caught loading 4,200 pellets. The woman alleged to own the store was still at large.
