Names of people convicted of embezzlement of public funds may soon be made public, the Office of the Ombudsman has said.Speaking a day after releasing a list of person who were convicted of taking or giving a bribe, published in this newspaper on Friday, Appauline Gashumba, the in charge of fighting corruption and related offences in the Office of the Ombudsman, said publishing names of seemingly low profile convicts should not create the perception that high profile offenders are protected.The lists to publish are always from the courts and they include exclusively convicts of corruption, she said."We are not trying to protect such kind of convicts, we only used to get the list of people convicted of taking or giving a bribe. Otherwise, there is nothing wrong in publishing names of those involved in embezzlement as well,” said Gashumba."We are planning to start publishing their names and are looking at the best way to do it.”The list of 90 people convicted of corruption in 2012 was released by Ombudsman office on Friday.Farmers majorityMore than 50 per cent on the list (49) are farmers who were involved in bribery involving between Rwf2,000 and Rwf500,000.Over eighteen per cent (17) are taxi drivers and motorcyclists, while 12 per cent (11) are police officers involved in corruption, involving between Rw1500 and Rwf2 million.The list also includes some local defence personnel, a prisoner, some mediators or executive secretaries of cells and some businessmen.Two civil servants from the sector level and one at the district level are the highest officials on the list for a corruption case totalling Rwf180,000.The Ombudsman’s office has, in the past, been accused of not including on its shame list names of people who may have taken millions, especially officials from institutions."To apprehend these people is most of the time hard, because they use their knowledge and prepare all necessities like documents that would cover them up before giving or receiving bribes,” Gashumba told The New Times."Cunning people may use multiple ways while taking a bribe and thus making it hard to get caught, while the ordinary people would not afford this,” Gashumba added.