{"id":36528,"date":"2017-12-17T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-re-elected-rpf-chairman\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:04:31","slug":"kagame-re-elected-rpf-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-re-elected-rpf-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame re-elected RPF Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The RPF National Committee consists of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary General and 22 commissioners, 10 representing youth and 12 representing the general public.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, no changes have been made in the top three positions as beside the Chairman who was retained, Christophe Bazivamo and Fran\u00e7ois Ngarambe were also re-elected the Vice-Chairman and Secretary General respectively.<\/p>\n

The National Unity and Reconciliation Commission Executive Secretary, Fidele Ndayisaba fronted incumbent Kagame on chairmanship saying that he is forward-looking and that there is a lot he still has to bring to the party and country in general.<\/p>\n

Sheikh Abdoul-Karim Harerimana reiterated the point saying that Kagame is a strategist and delivers on whatever he promises.<\/p>\n

On Vice-Chairman, Senator Tito Rutaremara endorsed Bazivamo saying that he has proven capable both as Vice-Chairman and as a civil servant in different positions he has held over the years. “He has also represented us well in East African Legislative Assembly”<\/p>\n

Deputy Speaker Jeanne d’Arc Uwimanimpaye endorsed Francois Ngarambe as Secretary General saying that his capabilities are undoubtedly visible to everyone.<\/p>\n

{{Election Results}}<\/p>\n

Kagame was elected at 99,9% with 2,340 out of 2,342 votes cast by members that were present in the congress.<\/p>\n

Bazivamo was elected with 2,292 votes out of 2,342 votes while Ngarambe was re-elected by 2,281 voters.<\/p>\n

{{Elected Commissioners }} <\/p>\n

{{\u00b7 General Commissioners}}<\/p>\n

GASAMAGERA Wellars; MUSONI James; UWACU Julienne; KABONEKA Francis; HABUMUREMYI Pierre Damien; MUKASINE Marie Claire; GASINZIGWA Odda; TUMUSHIME Francine; SINDIKUBWABO Jean Nepo; MWIZA Esperance; HARELIMANA Abdul Karim; MUKAZAYIRE Nelly.<\/p>\n

{{\u00b7 Youth commissioners}}<\/p>\n

UWANYIRIGIRA Clarisse; RUSERA Tessy; NDAYISHIMIYE Alain; KWIZERA Christelle; MUGANZA Julien; IGABE Edmond; RUKUNDO Constantin; UWAMARIYA Assumpta; ARUSHA Joel; TUMUSHIME Adrien.<\/p>\n

In his closing remarks, Kagame said that the Congress was an occasion for them to recommit to attaining the country’s transformation agenda.<\/p>\n

He said they are empowering youth by entrusting them with more responsibilities.<\/p>\n

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As the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF)-Inkotanyi concludes National Congress on Saturday, the party also held elections for the National Executive Committee which saw Paul Kagame retain the position of party’s Chairman.<\/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-36528","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\/36528","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=36528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36528"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36528"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}