Mureshyankwano was speaking last week following the Rwanda Governance Board’s (RGB) Citizen Report Card which ranked five Southern Province districts among the ten poor performers.
Citizen Report Card is RGB’s annual publication which is produced to ascertain the levels of community satisfaction with regard to services rendered.
Among eight districts that make up the province, on national level Kamonyi is the 8th with 74.6%, Nyanza 9th with 74.0% and Muhanga the 16th with 70.6%.
Other districts are Huye 22nd with 68.5%; Nyaruguru 23rd with 67.9%; Ruhango 25th with 67.3%; Gisagara 27th with 65.7% and Nyamagabe 29th with 64.6%.
It is against these findings that Mureshyankwano requested all mayors to work towards improvement.
“Let’s agree from now that it is the last time to come in last places altogether, let it be the last time. Go and serve people,” she said.
Particularly on agriculture and animal resources services, Mureshyankwano said that bad services are a result of local leaders’ poor attraction of people-participation in programmes.
“Respective mayors and vice-mayors, I will not withstand this unless we see improvements in your districts, use sectors agronomists to promote farming. Sectors Executive Secretaries should not allow people to be working in offices at the expense of field work and service delivery, you should stand up and we work towards serving the people” she said.
In 2016/2017 performance contracts, four Southern Province’s districts were also ranked among last 10 districts on national level.
Based on performance contracts and RGB’s Citizen Report Card findings, Mureshyankwano said that it is time to re-evaluate themselves and identify where to invest much efforts.
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