A presiding judge in a primary court at Nyaruguru, a district in Southern Rwanda has been arrested in connection with a sex and corruption scandal involving a woman who wanted the tribunal to rule in her favor, several correspondents in the remote regions reported Saturday.
The suspect who was identified by Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) as Silas Nsengiyumva is currently detained at a Police station of Kicukiro in Kigali city pending further investigation, it said.
The arrest comes after latest reports by Transparency Rwanda have warnedthat sex corruption is a growing trend in the job market in Rwanda has become rampant with job seekers losing potential employment opportunities because of a refusal to have sexual relations with employers.
In most of public institutions in Rwanda, the organisation warned that both women and men have reported instances of employers bribing job seekers or employees – especially women – with jobs and promotions in exchange for sex.
Women made up 84.5 percent of victims, and men make up 15.5 percent of victims of sex-based bribery in the workplace, according to a report by Transparency International Rwanda, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting corruption.
The group most exposed to this trend, referred to as gender-based corruption, is women seeking employment. The next group is female secretaries, accounting for 29 percent of victims, it said.
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