A group of 23 Mayors and other officials from Mwanza and Shinyanga in Tanzania are on a three days field trip in two districts in Rwanda.
They came to respectively tour the districts of Kicukiro in Kigali and Nyanza in the southern province.
The mayor of the district of Kicukiro, Paul Jules Ndamage yesterday held a meeting with the officials and was explaining to the delegation from Tanzania how the district is dealing with different issues that touches security, hygiene, and other issues that concern the environment.
Also present at the meeting was the mayor of Nyanza Abdallah Murenzi who had come to meet the delegation that will also visit the district of Nyanza in the southern province.
He told IGIHE that the officials are from Mwanza and Shinyanga and that they are part of an association called Revlac that regroup regions surrounding Lac Victoria in which Kicukiro district is also part of.
“They came to see how hygiene and environment are taken care of in the district of Kicukiro with the participation of citizens themselves” remarked the mayor of Kicukiro district to IGIHE.
He reiterated that they also want to understand how local government entities in Rwanda are organizing themselves In development activities without necessarily depend on the central government.
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