Security forces (bouncers) at a recent Omah Lay concert in Kigali have been prosecuted by the courts for embezzling money from those who planned it.
According to the information young men were arrested on the day of the concert on suspicion of embezzlement of the fee paid by the clients/
The informant testified that the ‘bouncers’ were arrested and questioned by the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB), after which their case was handed over to the Prosecution, where they will be considered for trial or released.
The bouncers, who are being held on suspicion of embezzlement, have embezzled more than Rwf300,000 from their partners at the Kigali Arena.
Just hours before the concert began, it was immediately confirmed that tickets had passed.
Its demise has left many people at the Kigali Arena reluctant to enter because even though they had the money but did not have a place to get a ticket it allowing them to attend the concert.
The ‘bouncers’, who used to work closely with Kigali Arena, had already heard that tickets were scarce, and they had learned the tricks of dressing badged papers to ticket buyers as they were about to enter so that It could be easy once they want to get out.
From then on, they started bringing in people who had tickets without putting them on, and then they went to the back and sold them in lieu of tickets.
Admission to the concert in plainclothes was expected to be for those who arrived at the Kigali Arena, but the organizers of the concert came to see people who would be asked to enter the concert dressed up, wondering when they were sold and when they came out and otherwise not many people had arrived in the concert.
This led some of the concert organizers to be cautious, calling in entrants with tickets and asking for their tickets, because even if you had a ticket, you would still have to carry your ticket and show it on the phone.
Some badge paper buyers explained that they “had bought them from the bouncers at the doo.” leading to an investigation into the first arrests that night, while others came to be arrested while the investigation was ongoing.
Following the start of the investigation, three young men were arrested and are still being prosecuted.
By MUHIRE Désiré
