{"id":25717,"date":"2016-05-31T07:23:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T07:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nkombo-community-boat-posts-losses\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T08:09:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:09:15","slug":"nkombo-community-boat-posts-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nkombo-community-boat-posts-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Nkombo community boat posts losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The administration of Rusizi district says that earnings earned by the boat belonging to Nkombo residents donated by President Paul Kagame have begun to dwindle with losses registered in the recent past.}<\/p>\n<p>The boat takes passengers and their merchandise from Rusizi, Karongi to Rubavu.<br \/>\nKankindi L\u00e9oncie, the Rusizi vice mayor in charge of economic affairs and representative of the finance committee has said that they have in the recent past been earning little from the project. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe earnings have been declining. In the past there was some substantial income gained compared to the present,\u201d he said of the boat they have been using since March 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Some islanders have a feeling that income from their vessel is squandered by managers. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe never receive reports of annual incomes and expenditures earned per year so that we can compare the performance. The boat should be managed properly so that earnings can help vulnerable citizens to pay medical insurance and pay school fees for poor children, \u201csaid Barabona Evaritse.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Kankindi L\u00e9oncie says that despite the drop in earnings, they will keep programs meant to avail services to Nkombo residents from the boat\u2019s earnings.<br \/>\nLast year, one hundred families at Nkombo Island received 100 goats from profits made by the boat.<\/p>\n<p>The boat sometimes breaks down creating a lull of inactivity yet the competition has, too, increased on Lake Kivu. Some operators of the boat reveal that in the past they would earn Rwf 1 million from a round trip which has since dropped to Rwf300, 000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12533 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ubwato1.jpg\" alt=\"Nkombo community boat \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The administration of Rusizi district says that earnings earned by the boat belonging to Nkombo residents donated by President Paul Kagame have begun to dwindle with losses registered in the recent past.} The boat takes passengers and their merchandise from Rusizi, Karongi to Rubavu. Kankindi L\u00e9oncie, the Rusizi vice mayor in charge of economic affairs [&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-25717","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\/25717","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=25717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25717"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25717"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}