{"id":23375,"date":"2016-02-20T06:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T06:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rusizi-residents-cry-foul-four-years-down-no\/"},"modified":"2016-02-21T23:36:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T23:36:28","slug":"rusizi-residents-cry-foul-four-years-down-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rusizi-residents-cry-foul-four-years-down-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusizi residents cry foul: Four years down, no compensation in sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Residents from Nzaha and Bugarama sectors in Rusizi district say that four years have now gone by without getting compensation for their land through which the road to Rusizi III dam passes.}<\/p>\n

Residents say that Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA) registered the area of citizens\u2019 land used while constructing the road in 2011 promising to pay as soon as possible but have not received anything since. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem I have is that my land was registered. I was promised to get compensation of my land but I was disappointed to find my account empty,\u201d said Innocent Bikorimana.<\/p>\n

Another resident Anna Kankindi said: \u201cI would construct a small house in 14 meters they have taken. They have not paid the Rwf 100,500 they owe me.\u201d <\/p>\n

Residents say that they were affected since they had already planted banana, avocadoes, and mangoes in their field when the construction started and lost all they had put in place. <\/p>\n

RTDA officer in charge of coordinating compensation , Pasteur Kayisire, revealed that the district hadn\u2019t released the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have never received the report of the district so that we can pay the affected residents,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Rusizi district administration however, says they have, on behalf of the affected residents, sent a claim letter to Rwanda Transport Agency who have not reacted to it whatsoever. <\/p>\n

The project of road construction used 14 square meters of the residents\u2019 land, valued at Rwf 2,500,000.<\/p>\n

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{Residents from Nzaha and Bugarama sectors in Rusizi district say that four years have now gone by without getting compensation for their land through which the road to Rusizi III dam passes.} Residents say that Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA) registered the area of citizens\u2019 land used while constructing the road in 2011 promising to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000072332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000072332,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23375.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23375.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23375.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23375.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23375.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23375.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000072332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23375"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23375"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}