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Arrested Horizon bus company manager released from Rwanda
Mr Emmanuel Sebuzuru the Manager of Horizon Bus Company in Kisoro district who was arrested on Wednesday evening at Cyanika border post in Kisoro district was on Friday night
released through Katuna border in Kabale district.
Sebuzuru told Daily Monitor that he was on Friday night driven to Cyanika border at about 9:30pm under police escort but later driven back to Kigali city where the police car was refuelled before they transported him to Gatuna, a Rwandan border town with where he was released.
“We reached at Cyanika border on Friday at around 9:30pm but because they were very many people waiting for me on the Ugandan side, the Rwandan security officials opted to drive me back to Kigali city where the police vehicle I was being driven in was refuelled before the
drove me and left me at Gatuna border at around 3:00am on Saturday, with instructions to the border security personnel to help me cross to Uganda without being harmed and disturbed by anybody,” Mr Sebuzuru said.
He added that he stayed at Gatuna border till 7:00am when he crossed to Katuna border on the Uganda side cleared by immigration and jumped on a vehicle to Kabale town where he got one that took him to Kisoro town.
“After my arrest on Wednesday at Cyanika border, I was taken to Rwanda police headquarters and later to the Rwanda Criminal investigations department headquarters where I was interrogated from over a wide range of things that I cannot disclose. While in detention, I was
treated as diplomat because nobody harmed me or took away any of my belongings,” Mr Sebuzuru said.
He added that the Rwandan investigators told him that they were given wrong information about him and it was the reason that he was released.
The Kisoro district LCV chairman Mr Abel Bizimana on Saturday morning warned Ugandans in his border district to stop frequenting Rwanda because of the volatility of the situation and asked them to keep calm and live in harmony with the Rwandan nationals that stay in their
communities until the two heads of state resolve the problem.
“When this manager of Horizon bus Company was arrested by the Rwanda security personnel at Cyanika border, some Ugandans in Kisoro threatened to send away all the Rwandan nationals currently living in their communities but I prevailed telling them to avoid committing
crime while trying to solve a problem,” Mr Abel Bizimana said.
Mr Bizimana thanked the media and the state minister of regional cooperation Dr Philemon Mateke for amplified advocacy for the release of the arrested bus manager.
Mr Joseph Muhoozi, the brother to the released manager said that they are happy that their family member was released without being harmed or any of his property taken away from him.
