{"id":27836,"date":"2016-08-18T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T08:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uproar-as-district-takes-farmers-land-for-model\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T07:00:30","slug":"uproar-as-district-takes-farmers-land-for-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uproar-as-district-takes-farmers-land-for-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Uproar as district takes farmers\u2019 land for model village construction"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Residents of Gitega village, Ndoranyi cell of Mudende sector, Rubavu district, have expressed worries over the decision of building a model village at a yard where remains of relatives, genocide victims are buried.}<\/p>\n

Officials from the district official visited the sector last week and took survey and demarcation of 20 hectares where the district will build a model.They asked residents to stop tilling their gardens.<\/p>\n

The development was revealed few days after the mayor of Rubavu district visited Mudende residents where he told them that rehabilitating the road and connecting households to electricity required building a model village where people from disaster prone zones will be resettled.<\/p>\n

The decision has stirred worries among residents who told IGIHE that building the model village will have negative consequences especially where some genocide victims are buried in the demarcated site.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe retrieve bones of genocide victims almost every year in these gardens. Many Tutsi from Bigogwe military camp were killed and buried here. I am worried the model village may be built on top of our buried relatives,\u201d said Ugiruwe Boniface, a genocide survivor from Mudende sector. <\/p>\n

Residents are also annoyed with the decision of building a model village in their gardens on which they survive through agriculture and animal husbandry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were surprised by the decision. We were called in a meeting with the mayor. He said that people ask him for electricity connections and a road which he said will be availed along with a model village to be built in our gardens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The executive secretary of Western Province, Jabo Paul said residents should not worry of the model village since they will earn many benefits out of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cRubavu district has selected this sector to host model development activities which will b expanded. There will be schools, electricity and health centers among others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jabo Paul explained that the project is good and local leaders should effectively communicate changes to residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is the way the program was communicated. Citizens have to be told earlier before any changes to have a good understanding, embrace these changes, know how changes are meant for their benefit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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