Rwandan government says sacked police officers were corrupt.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report by Robert Mukombozi entitled "Sacked Police officers were corrupt - Higiro" published in English by Rwandan newspaper The New Times website on 1 November

Facts have emerged that most of the sacked police officers were accused of corruption. The revelation comes barely a week after over 70 police officers were sacked by the government. The police spokesperson, Willy Marcel Higiro, in a telephone interview yesterday, said that most of the police officers who were sacked on various counts of indiscipline had been established to be corrupt, soliciting bribes during operations.

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