Gilbert Niyonkuru was arrested on Monday afternoon by the judicial police in Bururi. He is suspected of complicity in illicit fuel trafficking in Rushemeza village, Muzenga zone, in the Bururi district and province (southern Burundi). This trafficking is all the more combated because it constitutes a real public danger.

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According to police sources in Bururi, four houses located in Rushemeza village were reduced to ashes. One that was used in the illegal sale of fuel was the trigger.

The property located there was completely destroyed by the fire.

“The origin of this fire is linked to this fuel,” according to an administration source in Bururi and certain residents of this village.

Gilbert Niyonkuru, deputy village chief in Rushemeza, has been detained since Monday July 15 in the police cell in Bururi. He is suspected of having warned Alexandre Niciteretse, a local trader, when the police were about to arrest him.
He is the owner of the house that caught fire.
The latter is on the run.

This fire occurred at a time when the black fuel market proliferated in several corners of the country.

With the shortage of fuel plaguing the country, pump attendants and gas station owners have adopted the reflex of selling part of the fuel at the official price, while another part supplies the black market, at very exorbitant prices. .

The black market has also developed on Burundi’s borders with Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo respectively.

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The Bururi district office in southern Burundi (SOS Médias Burundi)