{"id":24057,"date":"2016-03-21T10:55:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T10:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-900-newly-elected-local-leaders-attend-civic\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T11:07:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T11:07:39","slug":"over-900-newly-elected-local-leaders-attend-civic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-900-newly-elected-local-leaders-attend-civic\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 900 newly elected local leaders attend civic education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Over 900 district and leaders of Kigali city are attending a civic education that started yesterday in Gabiro.The Minister of Local Government says that during this civic education to last two weeks, local leaders have to commit to  keeping away from mistakes that were committed by their predecessors but instead  work for common interests and progress of the people that entrusted them with leadership positions.}<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Local Government, Francis Kaboneka made the request yesterday at the official launch of the civic education  for district  and Kigali city leaders. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are required to act for common interest of Rwandans .To attain this  we are supposed to execute many activities within a short time. Our actions have to exceed words,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He asked them to work as a single body  for the progress of their performance.<br \/>\n\u201cYou are all required to implement  government plans. These must be completed by taking one direction. You have to feel responsible for your works and maintain Rwandans unity if you want to keep in line with  the social pact you agreed with Rwandans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the recent 13th leadership retreat  some local leaders were pointed at for having failed to implement envisaged government\u2019s plans but concentrated on promoting their own interests.<\/p>\n<p>Kaboneka reminded them that a leader doesn\u2019t become a great person because of the position he\/she holds but  must first demonstrate good performance to  merit and earn honor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeadership is not realized through holding positions but deeds. You can\u2019t claim  greatness  unless when you contribute to the progress of citizens you lead and the country in general,\u201d he noted. <\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Ruhango district, Mbabazi Fran\u00e7ois Xavier said that the civic education will equip  them with capacities of taking strategic measures of by addressing people\u2019s challenges  through working closely with them. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11078 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ito_bakurikiye_impanuro_za_minisitiri_kaboneka.jpg\" alt=\"Over 900 newly elected local leaders attend civic education\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Over 900 district and leaders of Kigali city are attending a civic education that started yesterday in Gabiro.The Minister of Local Government says that during this civic education to last two weeks, local leaders have to commit to keeping away from mistakes that were committed by their predecessors but instead work for common interests and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057","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=24057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24057"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24057"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}