ICTR Hands Over Armoured Truck to Tanzania Prison Services

Ms Kilemi explaining the qualities of the reinforced bullet-proof truck to Commissioner Mboya

Ms Kilemi (centre) flanked on her left by Mr. Mboya and on her right by Mr. Saidou Guindo the Commandant of the UN Detention Facility in Arusha during the ceremony.

The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has handed over a Mercedes Benz armoured truck with eight new spare tyres to the Tanzania Prison Services for the latter to use it for its prison activities. The handover ceremony was held at the UN Detention Facility (UNDF) in Arusha.

Ms Sarah Kilemi, the ICTR Chief of the Division of Administrative and Support Services handed the keys of the truck to Mr Fidelis Mboya, the Tanzania Commissioner of Prisons in charge of Legal and Administration Services, at a ceremony attended by senior officials of the Tribunal and the Prison Services. The Commissioner was representing the Tanzania Principal Prison Services Commissioner Mr. Augustino Nanyaro who could not attend the event due to other commitments.

The heavily armoured truck was being used by the Tribunal’s Detention Facility to transport its detainees who are being tried by the ICTR for crimes of genocide they allegedly committed in Rwanda in 1994.

Receiving the truck, Mr. Mboya thanked the ICTR for the assistance and assured the Tribunal of his Services’ full and consistent support to the work of the ICTR.