{"id":13664,"date":"2019-09-05T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T08:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=13664"},"modified":"2019-09-06T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T15:31:09","slug":"justice-ministry-determined-to-eliminate-corruption-in-justice-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/justice-ministry-determined-to-eliminate-corruption-in-justice-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Ministry determined to eliminate corruption in justice department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While responding to parliamentarians\u2019 questions this Wednesday, the Minister of Justice has said the ministry is committed to punishing seriously corrupt judges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13657\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13657\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AIMEE-LAURENTINE-KANYANA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AIMEE-LAURENTINE-KANYANA.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AIMEE-LAURENTINE-KANYANA-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AIMEE-LAURENTINE-KANYANA-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AIMEE-LAURENTINE-KANYANA-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aim\u00e9e Laurentine Kanyana calls on the Burundian population to report corruption cases to the Ministry of Justice<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Aim\u00e9e Laurentine Kanyana, Burundian Minister of Justice has said the ministry works hard to identify corrupt judges. \u201cCitizens also help the ministry by showing cases of judges who do not work properly,\u201d she also says, adding that several judges have already been punished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Rumonge province, there are three judges who asked a person to bribe them. The person called the ministry for help and gave evidence and the judges were immediately arrested,\u201d she says.<br \/>\nMrs. Kanyana says other judges were recently caught holding illegal meetings in Bururi. \u201cThey have been arrested and jailed,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Musigati commune of Bubanza province, three corrupt judges were seriously punished,\u201d she says adding that similar cases have also been recorded in Nyanza-Lac and Mutaho communes of Makamba and Gitega provinces respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Justice calls on the population to report corruption cases to the ministry.<br \/>\n\u201cThe ministry of justice will even dismiss judges who will be found guilty of corruption,\u201d she says.<br \/>\nAs for Agathon Rwasa, Deputy President of the Burundi National Assembly, criminals are sometimes protected by justice for political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the CNL office in Nyabiraba commune was set ablaze, justice accused CNL militants of burning their own party office,\u201d he says adding that when criminals are not punished, they are likely to commit more crimes.<\/p>\n<p>He calls on judges to work legally and punish real criminals.<br \/>\nMP Daniel G\u00e9lase Ndabirabe says the ministry should establish a newspaper where stories denouncing all corruption cases in justice should be published.<br \/>\nHe calls on the ministry of justice to keep punishing seriously corrupt judges to restore a corruption free society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While responding to parliamentarians\u2019 questions this Wednesday, the Minister of Justice has said the ministry is committed to punishing seriously corrupt judges. Aim\u00e9e Laurentine Kanyana, Burundian Minister of Justice has said the ministry works hard to identify corrupt judges. \u201cCitizens also help the ministry by showing cases of judges who do not work properly,\u201d she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":13657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,670],"tags":[1012,924],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13668,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664\/revisions\/13668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}