{"id":33111,"date":"2017-03-10T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/another-burundi-mp-attends-eala-kigali-sittings\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T07:55:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T07:55:22","slug":"another-burundi-mp-attends-eala-kigali-sittings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/another-burundi-mp-attends-eala-kigali-sittings\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Burundi MP attends EALA Kigali sittings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Leonce Ndarubagiye, one of five representatives of Burundi in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) who had at first declined to attend the EALA sitting in Kigali citing personal security reasons arrived in Kigali yesterday for activities of the assembly.}<\/p>\n<p>MP Ndarubagiye is a member of CNDD-FDD Burundi\u2019s leading political party.<\/p>\n<p>The five MPs had filed complaints to the speaker of EALA,Daniel Fred Kidega through a written letter saying they could not attend the sittings, citing personal security reasons. Other  MPs boycotting the assembly  include Bucumi Emerence, Jean Marie Muhirwa, Ndahayo Isabelle and Nengo Emmanuel. <\/p>\n<p>When a journalist asked Ndarubagiye  about  why he delayed coming for the sittings, he declined to comment.  <\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing following the launch of EALA General Assembly, the speaker Daniel Fred Kidega said that Burundians absence could not interrupt the sessions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo assume a quorum, each country has to be represented by at least three members,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ndarubagiye joins four Burundi MPs who arrived earlier during the launch of Kigali-EALA sitting including Amb Jeremie Ngendakumana, Ngenzebuhoro Frederic K, Dr Martin Nduwimana and Nsabimana Yves.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18689 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_4972-685b9.jpg\" alt=\"MP Leonce Ndarubagiye arrived in Kigali yesterday for activities of EALA sitting.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Leonce Ndarubagiye, one of five representatives of Burundi in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) who had at first declined to attend the EALA sitting in Kigali citing personal security reasons arrived in Kigali yesterday for activities of the assembly.} MP Ndarubagiye is a member of CNDD-FDD Burundi\u2019s leading political party. The five MPs had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-featured-news-home","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\/33111","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=33111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33111"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33111"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}