{"id":36019,"date":"2017-10-09T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/governor-takes-tough-stance-against-social-media\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T11:28:41","slug":"governor-takes-tough-stance-against-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/governor-takes-tough-stance-against-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor takes tough stance against social media chats in meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gatabazi announced the decision following cases in the provincial agriculture consultative meeting that took place last week.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the governor found some local government officials charting and ordered them to leave their handsets outside the conference room in subsequent meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE this morning, Gatabazi explained that telephone engagements tend to distract members from giving attention to salient issues under discussion and later translate into poor implementation.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were discussing important issues which impact the public; I saw some leaders busy on social media. This implies that they were outside the meeting dealing in own affairs\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that punitive actions will be taken immediately against culprits, attracting sanctions that are yet to be determined. \u201cI am going to communicate this directive to all mayors,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22047 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gatabazi.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Province Governor, JMV Gatabazi\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Province Governor, Jean Marie Vianney Gatabazi will be dismissing any local government official found using a mobile telephone handset in meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/36019","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36019"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36019"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}