Five pupils at Groupe Scolaire Kagugu have been arrested for stealing 13 One Laptop Per Child computers.
Groupe Scolaire Kagugu is a pilot school of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) programme which helps children in learning laptops meant to facilitate primary pupils practice computer skills.
These primary five pupils are said to have broken through the window into the store where these computers had been kept and took them away on Friday 30, 2011.
The five boys were unlucky when the security guard only identified as Nikuze learnt of their plan and notified the school authority that also alerted the police and then arrested them.
The police spokesman Supt. Theos Badege told Igihe.com that the prosecution will determine the fate of these minors.
“What police has done is responding and investigating the crime. We got to where they were and found them with the computers and accepted they had stolen them,” Badege narrated.
“The next phase is submitting their file to the prosecution,” he said.
According to Rwandan law, a child over 14 years can be tried and if he/she is convicted can be sentenced in children prison in Nyagatare, Eastern province while bellow age children are put under rehabilitation centers.
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