NORTHERN PROVINCE

MUSANZE—The two bank robbers who broke into Banque Populaire, Nyakinama Branch last week and stole six million Rwandan Francs have been arrested.

Damascene Ntuyemukaga a resident of Nyakinama and Francois Nturuswa from Kigali city confessed that they coordinated with the bank manager who gave them keys to the bank and promised to give him five hundred thousand each.

Earlier, the bank manager Emmanuel Manirere had been arrested as the prime suspect for having kept a large amount of money in the small branch illegally.

According to Inspector of Police Silas Karekezi, the Musanze police station commander, there was syndicate in the robbery; bank officals collaborated with thieves to break the trunks where money had been kept.

Other five employees of the bank have also been arrested for having conspired with the thieves including a cleaner who was said to have been the intermediary between the manager and the robbers.

They are likely to be charged with robbery, a crime that carries a sentence of up to ten years on conviction.

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