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{{The proprietor of Remera based HOTEL TECH investment worth Rwf 76M is crying foul following 10-days ultimatum issued demanding him to vacate the place.}}

HOTEL TECH property is currently attached as collateral in a Gacaca case waiting to be publicly auctioned and the returns from which shall be used to compensate 1994 genocide survivors whose loved ones were killed in the same area.

The Prime location of the HOTECH TECH property has attracted several potential bidders just waiting to seize the public auction opportunity.

The hotel proprietor Pascal Ndahiro says that the ultimatum forcing him out is illegal. He claims he has been given 10 days yet the matter is still in the court.

“I have no problem vacating the place.However, the issue the authorities are ignoring is the investment put in and little time they are giving as if I am a criminal,” Ndahiro decried.

“How do you close this business in just 10 days? And actually 10 days they gave me over the weekend have not elapsed. Basically they are closing me down in two days,” Ndahiro added.

Information reaching IGIHE.com investigative desk indicates that on January 17, 2012 employees of the HOTEL TECH formerly known as {Total} protested when Remera sector authorities came with police to close down the place.

“Some of us stay here, we also need our payment. This is the manager’s address if you close and he is gone we are afraid where we will get him?” One of the employees said prefering annonymity asked the Remera sector executive secretary who had come to calm down the situation.

Willy Ndizeye the Gasabo District Mayor told IGIHE.com by his cell phone that HOTEL TECH proprietor was notified in time and that they have followed all legal procedures to ask him vacate the premises.

“Different personnel representing different relevant institutions came up with a conclusion of which he is also aware. He was given a first notification on December 2, 2011 ,” Gasabo Mayor disclosed.

“He has not shown acceptance or the willingness to leave the place. The 10 days he complains of comes as the last warning where we have to use force to make him vacate the place,” Ndizeye added.

“After he has surrendered the premises, public auction will follow and the money worth his investment will be put on an account provided by the commercial court and then he will be refunded his investment,” The Mayor said.

However, Ndahiro does not believe it is the right way arguing that public auction can be done while he is still occupying the place as he prepares himself to leave.

“I don’t reject to surrender the premises but let them consider my side too, something is fishy about this whole thing, when I talk to them they tell me they are under pressure from president’s office,” Ndahiro said.

“This makes the whole thing suspicious, I don’t believe president’s office can intervene in this issue at all, yet the matter was still in the court. Why can’t they be patient and wait for the court ruling and I go well without pushing me out as if I am a criminal,” He added.

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Pascal Ndahiro is a tennant at the property that allegedly entered a contract with the owner untill 2014.

He also claims harassment and mistreatment by the authorities who had ordered him to vacate the place on 24th December at the peak days for business in the festive seasons.

When he was asked to vacate the premises, the issue ended up at a commercial court since the owner did not show concern to pay him back the amount he had paid for rent neither does the prospective buyer show intention to refund him money he had invested.

It is said that the son of the owner William Kamalo was paid the first installment worth Rwf 50m of the total cost of Rwf 180m agreed.

The son is said to be on run after his father was found guilty of 1994 Genocide and arrested and imprisoned.

Alex Bayingana the owner of Alpha Palace Hotel, Remera is said to have emerged as the potential buyer and that is allegedly exerting pressure through authorities to force out the current tennant.

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{{The World Bank today announced the appointment of Makhtar Diop, a Senegalese national, as its new Vice President for Africa.
He succeeds Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili who will return to Nigeria in early May after serving as the region’s Vice President since 2007.}}

Diop, the World Bank’s Country Director for Brazil since 2009, will take up his new position on May 6th. He is a former Finance Minister in Senegal and Chair of the West African Monetary Union (WAEMU) Board of Finance Ministers.

Diop joined the World Bank in 2001 and has served in various senior positions, including as the World Bank’s Country Director for Kenya, Eritrea, and Somalia, as well as Director of Strategy and Operations in the Bank’s Latin America and Caribbean region.

World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick praised Ezekwesili for “five years of important and successful service to the Bank and to Africa.”

“Under Oby’s leadership, our Africa team employed innovation, knowledge, partnership and financial services to strengthen results across Africa and to improve the prospects for Africa’s economic performance.”

“Her close attention to the needs of our clients, engagement with African leadership and with regional institutions, as well as with the UN and other partners, has helped us to leverage our effectiveness across Africa.

Oby has done excellent work mobilizing private sector engagement and better connecting Africa’s development to that of other regions, particularly through South-South partnerships,” said Zoellick.

The Bank President noted that Ezekwesili was a relentless campaigner for transparency and against corruption; had strongly supported the need for greater social accountability and civil society engagement; and had promoted innovative approaches to regional integration.

“We wish Oby all the best in her future endeavors working with civil society, in which she will help to strengthen public sector capacity, and work especially with young people and women. I am especially appreciative of her committed and devoted service, including the years spent away from her family,” Zoellick said.

Information reaching IGIHE.com reveals that the RDF leadership has suspended from duty and placed under house arrest senior military officials including; Lt.Gen Fred Ibingira, Brig. Gen. Richard Munyuza, Brig.Gen. Wilson Gumisiriza, Brig.Gen. Richard Rutatina and Col.Dan Munyuza with effect from January 17, 2012.

A communique from RDF signed by Col. Joseph Nzabamwita the RDF/MOD spokesperson explains that the arrested senior military officials are under investigation for acts of Indiscipline with respect to getting involved in civilian business dealings in Democratic republic of Congo.

Keep hooked to IGIHE.com for more details

{{Six Months ago, Gaspard Rudasingwa killed his wife Beltilde Nyiramana after the two disagreed over money. Rudasingwa killed and later dumped the body of his wife in a pit latrine at their home in Mbati cell Kamonyi District.}}

Until recently, residents of Mbati cell didn’t know the whereabouts of Nyiramana but were allegedly suspicious that something dubious could have happened.

However, Chantal Mukama reported the matter to police on 15th January 2011 that her sister Nyiramana was missing.

At the beginning of this week, Rudasingwa confessed during the police interrogation to killing his wife and keeping silent about the incident six months ago.

Rudasingwa is currently in detention at Rukoma police station. After thorough Police questioning Rudasingwa admitted that he had a fight with his wife over missing money he had given her to keep.

“I gave her Frw 100,000 then when I asked her for the money a few days later she gave me half of it. I immediately became furious because I wasn’t satisfied with excuses she gave. We later fought and I killed her, and then dumped her lifeless body in our pit latrine,” he disclosed.

Rudasingwa’s neighbours claim that disputes in the suspect’s house had been regular that’s why they didn’t intervene to rescue the deceased.

“Days after the fight which occurred on 2nd June last year, we asked Rudasigwa on the whereabouts of his wife, he simply replied that she had abandoned him.”

“Then later we suspected something mysterious on her disappearance since whenever we tried to call her phone it was off, yet some of his relatives who made frequent visits to their home asked us about Nyiramana’s location, meaning she was nowhere to be found. This prompted her sister Mukama to report the matter to police,” said Concensa a close friend to the deceased.

Neighbours became suspicious when Rudasingwa relocated to another cell barely after the disappearance of his wife. It is believed the suspect relocated to avoid frequent questions from friends on the whereabouts of his late wife.

Jean Marie Vianney Rwiririza the executive secretary of Mugina sector blamed the deceased neighbours for being silent over periodical assaults on Nyirimana.

“I encourage women in this sector to report matters of violence boldly in order to avoid simillar killings,” he advised.
The Rudasingwa and his late wife had three children.

{{In a recent speech while addressing Rwanda leaders Fellowship Forum on a thanks giving day, President Paul Kagame reaffirmed that he has no intention to run for third term.}}

Rwandan Constitution provides that any Presidential candidate will run for presidency for two terms of seven years.

Of recent, lots of doubts had emerged if President Kagame will not change the constitution to run for third term.

It was also announced by the current Minister of internal security Sheikh Musa Fazil Harerimana who publicly suggested that Rwandan constitution so as to allow Kagame run for the third term.

“If you think it is right to not over stay in power, why do you think I don’t think it is right,” Kagame said.

“I cannot rise and fall I am not going to fall and it is not because anybody is reminding me about it, it is not because every other day these journalists ask me when you are leaving the office,” Kagame added.

Kagame said that excuses given by leaders that have overstayed in power are the ones he will use to surrender the power.

“In excellent leadership, some of the things to be considered is evaluating what you have done in your term of leadership of let say ten or twenty years, your leadership should have groomed people into good leaders of whom a successor can be identified, therefore if there is no one to succeed me then it simply means that I am bad leader,” Kagame said.

“Therefore if I failed to groom leaders, that is a reason to make me not to stay in power. I cannot continue leadership after completing my term yet I have failed to groom other leaders,”

Kagame also referred to proper leadership which must move from theories to practical leadership which brings results towards development.

He said that however much many will take time to listen to presentations and speeches and one does not put into practice what he/she has learnt then it all turns into poor leadership.

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{{South African Airways’ (SAA’s) January 17 departed from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport to mark the first flight to Rwanda. The same flight was opened in Bujumbura the capital city of Burundi.}}

According to the company the Rwanda and Burundi flights would commence from Johannesburg to Kigali and onwards to Bujumbura, while the return flights would operate from Bujumbura back to Kigali and then to Johannesburg.

The company also said the two cites had been chosen, owing to their economic prominence. In addition to being the capital city of Rwanda, Kigali is also its economic, cultural and tourist transit hub. Meanwhile, Bujumbura capital is close to the country’s main shipping port.

SAA flights to East African countries are part of its Africa expansion program that includes the addition of four new services before its financial year-end in March, the company had added Burundi’s city of Bujumbura and Rwanda’s Kigali to its African route network.

“It is still early days, however, we have a reasonable load factor for our first flights,” SAA commercial GMTheunis Potgieter said.

He added that although it would take time to gain users’ confidence in the new services, the airline expected it to achieve the same success as that of its service to the mining town of Ndola, in the Copperbelt, which opened in October.

Attributing the success of the Ndola operation to Zambia’s blossoming copper mining sector, Potgieter stated: “We are happy with how our services have been doing in Ndola. We have been flying with between 80% and 90% load factors on all the flights.”

Potgieter added that SAA had traffic rights between the Bujumbura and Kigali operations, which would also allow it to pick up passengers between the two destinations.

He further remarked that SAA also planned to add routes to Pointe Noire, in the Republic of Congo, which was set to start operation on January 26, as well as the city of Cotonou, in Benin.

Although SAA had yet to announce a launch date for the Cotonou route, Potgieter said it was hoping to get it started before the end of the current financial year.

“West Africa holds significant potential with regard to identifying new service destinations. Analysis work is currently under way to determine possibilities of additional services in the Congo, and has identified the Ivory Coast as a possible new destination,” he added.

The objective behind the new services to the additional African destinations was not only to connect the respective countries with the South African market and visa versa, but also to other African and overseas markets.

“We believe that our African expansion program has come at the right time, especially when taking into account the significant growth in mining in Africa. In identifying potential service destinations it is therefore important for us to understand where mining operations in Africa are located and to be able to provide them with a quality service that is on time and operationally effective,” Potgieter said.

{{Despite all the legal battle staged by Leon Mugesera and his lawyers aimed at halting his deportation,Rwanda’s government is confident he will be deported.}}

The confidence has been expressed by Tharcisse Karugarama the Minister of Justice and attorney General of the government saying that Mugesera has explored all avenues of his resistance to be deported.

According to the Minister, Mugesera lost legal battle and what remains is his deportation without fail.

Karugarama was speaking at a press conference Tuesday where he was flanked by the Assistant Attorneys General, Pierre Kayitare and Isabelle Kalihangabo.

“Rwanda’s judicial system has developed a lot since 2000, Mugesera will not face torture in Rwanda as he alleges,” Karugarama said.

“Mugesera will by all means face deportation, he has exploited every available avenue to fight deportation but lost it,” He added.

Karugarama also reacted on the recent ICTR’s decision to reverse and reduce Theoneste Bagosora’s sentence from Life imprisonment to 35 years.

He said the verdict was like negating and denying the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis.

“The decision of the Appeals Chamber on Bagosora will live to haunt that tribunal, forever, and the individual who made that decision. It was the most disastrous decision any international tribunal could ever make,” Karugarama said.

Karugarama however, noted that the transfer of Jean Uwinkindi’s case to be tried in Rwanda, was a positive development.

Commenting on the report of who shot down the plane in 1994 that was carrying former Rwandan President Juvenale Habyarimana, Minister Karugarama welcomed the report by French judges, Marc Trévidic and Nathalie Poux.

The minister said it marked the end of an era of 17 years of lies.

He said that the four-year investigation had exposed the country’s detractors who have been distorting and misrepresenting facts.

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{{In a meeting held by the Ministry of Local government and partners convened at Sports View Hotel on 15-16th January 2012, Minister James Musoni tasked district officials to use their budgets proportionally in line with performance contracts.}}

Musoni said that some mayors seek big amounts of money beyond their budgets.

“The budget in districts should be prepared before performance contracts because some districts request for money that is well above their activities.”

He advised mayors to start their activities once they have 20% of the budget instead of waiting for the whole amount of money.

The minister also asked the mayors to ask to sign the equal performance contracts to avoid the delay in some districts caused by a big number of activities.

During the meeting, mayors highlighted their achievements attained in the past 6 months but also showed some of the problems faced including activities of sponsors and the late market offering.

The minister explained that sponsors should sign their own performance contracts and launch them at the right time.

In the meeting, 9 billion were found on districts accounts unused in last year’s budget yet there are many unaccomplished activities.