The event happened Friday in Gikondo, Kigali City, where three thieves where caught stealing over five million Rwandan Francs from Indian tradesmen. The thieves were arrested in a household after being hindered from escaping.
They used pistols in their stealing activities.
Addressing the media, the Police spokesperson CSP Celestin Twahirwa told media that thieves entered the shop as normal clients, asking for some details about the goods and how challenging it takes them to carry them to Kigali.
Thieves immediately posted guns over the traders asking to quickly provide the money they had.
After collecting the money, the band tried to leave the place but they found the gate was closed.
Climbing the walls and trying to escape without the car, they confronted the Police but two of them were caught, one escaping.
One of the Indian victims told Umuseke that the fate happened around 2 PM, relating the event as briefed above.
After 15 years of service in Rwanda, it is the first time this fate befalls me, he narrated.
The Spokesperson of Police CSP Twahirwa said that the security agency RGL closed the gate hindering the car of the thieves from escaping and thereafter called the Police for intervention.
CSP Twahirwa warned that whoever will attempt to steal people’s goods in anyway, using any means including guns will be arrested or hunted down.
The Law, article 302 stipulates that anyone guilty of such stealing acts will be sentenced to two or five years of imprisonment or a fee three or ten times bigger comparatively to the full amount value of ‘the stolen item’.
After the amount stolen was retrieved to the owners, they congratulated Rwanda National Police for its cooperation and professionalism.
UM– USEKE.RW
