Police in Rubavu District in partnership with local residents, thwarted an attempt by three people to supply about 6000 pellets of cannabis.
The trio; two men and a woman, was arrested red-handed in Kirerema village, Kirerema cell of Kanama sector. They had concealed the rolls of cannabis in a sack of irish potatoes.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Mucyo Rukundo, the District Political and Civic Education Officer RPCEO for Rubavu, said that the ring was foiled following a well coordinated operation facilitated by local residents.
“Residents of Kirerema privy to the criminal activities of the three people, called the Police on Thursday, June 8, at about 3p.m, after they saw them stashing narcotics in a sack of irish potatoes.
Police intercepted them as they transported the sack on a motorcycle,” CIP Rukundo said.
They were handed over to RIB at Kanama station for further investigations.
The suspects disclosed that they sneaked the narcotics into Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and that they were at the time going to supply their retailing clients operating in different parts of Rubavu.
Article 263 of law No. 68/2018 of 30/08/2018 determining offenses and penalties in general states that any person, who unlawfully produces, transforms, transports, stores, gives to another or who sells narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, commits an offence.
Upon conviction for very severe narcotics, the offender faces between 20 years and life imprisonment, and a fine of between Frw 20 million and Frw 30 million. (End)