Former Minister/MP Bikoro sentenced to two years in jail

KICUKIRO -  A former minister as well as Member of Parliament (MP), Munyanganizi Bikoro, was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail by the Kagarama Lower Instance Court, after he was found guilty of corruption.The verdict read by court president, Janvier Muhire, found him guilty of underhandedly evading taxes on building tiles he received from a Spanish company, Espina Obras Hidraulicas.Bikoro’s co-accused, Luis Duenas Herrera, a Spanish national who also represents Espina in the country, was convicted on two counts of corruption and tax evasion, and sentenced to three years in prison.The third accused, Jean Bosco Bavakure, an engineer with the National Drinking Water Purification Programme (PNEAR) who was also the overseer of the project, will spend one year in jail for complicity in the tax evasion scam.Espina, was exempted from taxes on all imported materials to be used in a water purification project which they had been contracted by the national water and energy utility Electrogaz to undertake.