Gen Fred Ibingira and Lt Gen (Rtd) Charles Muhire were this month taken into military custody at different times over separate COVID-19-related violations, the New Times reported.
Gen Ibingira is the Rwanda Defence Force Chief of Staff (Reserve Force), while Lt Gen Muhire, himself a former RDF Reserve Force Chief of Staff and Air Force Chief of Staff, retired from active service in 2014.
Sources say Gen Ibingira was arrested on April 7 after it emerged he had attended a traditional wedding (gusaba) ceremony in Butare Cell, Ngoma Sector, Huye District, three days earlier.
Both gusaba and wedding receptions were prohibited under the current national coronavirus protocols, with the only permitted wedding traditions being civil and religious marriage ceremonies. The latter two are permissible under strict social distancing conditions.
The New Times learnt that Lt Gen Muhire was apprehended on April 24 at Pegase Resort Inn in Robero, Kicukiro District in Kigali, where he and 33 others were allegedly having a drink in violation of COVID-19 protocols.
It has since emerged that both men were arrested by the police which subsequently handed them over to Rwanda Defence Force (RDF).
"It is true both General Officers are under arrest due to involvement in acts of indiscipline," RDF spokesperson Lt Col Ronald Rwivanga confirmed on Tuesday, April 27.
He acknowledged the two General violated COVID-19 guidelines.
"The institution (RDF) has a code of conduct that requires us to be exemplary," he said, adding that this applies to both serving and retired officers.