{"id":52322,"date":"2023-09-12T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi"},"modified":"2023-09-12T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:37:37","slug":"just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Court remands Ferwacy boss Munyankindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Aurore Teta Ufitiwabo<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Kicukiro primary court on Tuesday, September 11, ruled to remand Benoi\u0302t Munyankindi, the Secretary General of Rwanda Cycling governing body (Ferwacy), citing reasonable grounds to suspect his involvement in alleged crimes of favoritism and forgery.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on August 21, Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) arrested Munyankindi whho was then suspected to have engaged in making decisions based on favouritism, friendship acquaintances, or nepotism, as well as forgery, falsification, and use of forged documents.<\/p>\n<p>Munyankindi was arrested following an investigation into his conduct, and that of Ferwacy president Abdallah Murenzi, who he then confirmed was also under investigation but not in detention.<\/p>\n<p>Murenzi also resigned in August. At the time, Murenzi was under investigation, but not detained, on suspicion of being an accomplice on charges of making decisions based on favouritism, friendship acquaintances, or nepotism, as well as forgery, falsification, and use of forged documents to which federation Secretary General Benoit Munyankindi was suspected to have engaged in before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>Alphonse Nkuranga, the federation\u2019s Executive Director, also resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Murenzi stepped down after four years in office. He took over the office in an interim role in 2019 replacing Aimable Bayingana who also resigned from the top position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurore Teta Ufitiwabo Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Kicukiro primary court on Tuesday, September 11, ruled to remand Benoi\u0302t Munyankindi, the Secretary General of Rwanda Cycling governing body (Ferwacy), citing reasonable grounds to suspect his involvement in alleged crimes of favoritism and forgery. Earlier, on August 21, Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) arrested Munyankindi whho was then suspected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":52320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-52322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>JUST IN: Court remands Ferwacy boss Munyankindi - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kicukiro primary court on Tuesday, September 11, ruled to remand Benoi\u0302t Munyankindi, the Secretary General of Rwanda Cy ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JUST IN: Court remands Ferwacy boss Munyankindi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kicukiro primary court on Tuesday, September 11, ruled to remand Benoi\u0302t Munyankindi, the Secretary General of Rwanda Cy ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-12T17:03:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-12T17:37:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/09\/sm_1694527259.774186.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"668\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"JUST IN: Court remands Ferwacy boss Munyankindi\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-12T17:03:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-12T17:37:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi\"},\"wordCount\":218,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/09\/sm_1694527259.774186.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/just-in-court-remands-ferwacy-boss-munyankindi\",\"name\":\"JUST IN: Court remands Ferwacy boss Munyankindi - 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