Bubanza : Masare health center manager on the run after stealing more than 16 million

Magnifique Ntahimpera, manager of the Masare health center in the district of Musigati in the province of Bubanza (western Burundi) is wanted by the police. According to our sources, he withdrew 16,300,000 Burundi francs from the account of the health center for which he is responsible before disappearing. A search notice has been issued by the public prosecutor’s office in Bubanza. INFO SOS Médias Burundi

The director of the BDS (health district office) filed a complaint with the Bubanza prosecutor’s office.

Since March 31, a press release has been circulating. It calls on everyone to arrest and drive the person concerned to the nearest police station if they come across him.

“He withdrew 16,300,0000 Burundi francs from the account of the health center. The operation was carried out in an agency of a local bank in the commercial capital Bujumbura. In reality, the check he used for the withdrawal of this sum should include a stamp of the BDS of its management, which was not the case”, indicated a source close to the health district of Bubanza who also estimates that there would be complicity on the part of the agents from the bank or that he would have used a false document.

The sum that was stolen was intended for payment of services rendered by this health center, according to a source at the Masare health center.