Two people, one of them a driver, were arrested on Saturday in two separate incidents for allegedly attempting to bribe police officers.

This arrest comes barely a week after eight drivers were apprehended for a similar offence in the ongoing crackdown on bribery.

The driver, identified as Pierre Reberaho, was arrested on Bugesera-Kigali highway while the other person, identified as Clementine Iribagiza, was arrested in Nyanza District.

Reberaho was apprehended when he attempted to bribe a police officer, who had penalised him for speeding while Iribagiza tried to bribe the commander of Busasamana Police station with Rwf20, 000 to release her husband held on different charges, Police said.

Supt. Victor Vandama, Bugesera District Police Commander, said Reberaho, who was driving a Toyota Corolla registration number RAC 868M, tried to offer a police officer Rwf10, 000 after stopping him for speeding.

Vandama said ten people have recently been arrested in Bugesera in connection with bribery attempts, eight of them drivers.

"Police officers are aware of the dangers associated with corruption and fighting it is among their day-to-day duties,” Vandama said.

Penalties for anyone convicted of corruption range between two and seven years in jail and a fine of up to ten times the value of illegal benefit demanded or offered as stipulated in articles 633 to 651 of the Rwanda penal code.

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