{"id":29293,"date":"2016-10-10T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T06:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/new-houses-for-genocide-survivors-houses-on-the\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:24:08","slug":"new-houses-for-genocide-survivors-houses-on-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/new-houses-for-genocide-survivors-houses-on-the\/","title":{"rendered":"New houses for genocide survivors houses on the verge of collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Bushenge sector in Nyamasheke district have expressed worry over their dilapidated houses that are yet to be renovated. }<\/p>\n<p>The houses in question are 18 among the 55 built for genocide survivors in Nyamasheke district in 2013 by Inkeragutabara (Reserve Forces). Beneficiaries who talked to IGIHE lament that the house walls are weak with debris at times plucking off putting their lives in danger. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c My house has been severely destroyed. I live on one side of it yet I have no financial means to renovate it,\u201dsaid Mukagasana Fausta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plaster on walls of our houses was sub-standard at it exfoliates of.  When earthquake hits, we get worried of possible destruction, \u201csaid Mariana Bungwanubusa.<\/p>\n<p>Bagirishya Jean Marie Vianney, the representative of IBUKA in Nyamasheke district explains that the houses were sub-standard.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201c Some houses built for genocide survivors in Bushenge sector were  destroyed immediately after being handed to beneficiaries.  We notified the district and Reserve Forces (Ikeragutabara), they promised to renovate them but didn\u2019t do it up to now,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The executive secretary of Nymasheke district, Pierre Celestin Habiyaremye says that they are holding talks with management of Reserve Forces to seek ways of renovating them.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey walls were plastered before basic construction activities were completed causing the massive exfoliation.  We are holding talks with stakeholders to see whether the houses should be razed or renovated,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Each of the houses is estimated to have cost Rwf 4, 400,000. The district, however,  declined to pay the contractors an amount of Rwf 350 million when the mistake was realized. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15608 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kubera_kubakwa_nabi_zahise_zitangira_kwangirika_batari_banazijyamo.jpg\" alt=\"One of dialapidated houses of genocide survivors \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15607 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bafite_impungenge_ko_umutingito_wongeye_zabagwaho.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Bushenge sector in Nyamasheke district have expressed worry over their dilapidated houses that are yet to be renovated. } The houses in question are 18 among the 55 built for genocide survivors in Nyamasheke district in 2013 by Inkeragutabara (Reserve Forces). Beneficiaries who talked to IGIHE [&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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29293","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=29293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29293"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29293"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}