{"id":36544,"date":"2017-12-19T10:09:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T10:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-inaugurates-pre-cast-concrete-factory\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:20:02","slug":"kagame-inaugurates-pre-cast-concrete-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-inaugurates-pre-cast-concrete-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame inaugurates pre-cast concrete  factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Located in Masaka Sector of Kicukiro District, \u2018Afriprecast\u2019, the first of its kind in the country is owned by Rwandan investor, Alexis Bayigamba.<\/p>\n<p>Worth $25,000,000 the factory will provide jobs to 1,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame commended Bayigamba for investing in Rwanda saying that it is a valuable boost to Rwanda\u2019s industrial sector.<\/p>\n<p>Bayigamba has similar investment in Angola.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBayigamba had been investing in Angola, I would also wish to request people from Angola to also invest in Rwanda, it is not mandatory to invest in construction, you can also invest in other sectors, we shall be glad to help you, you will also find partners in Rwanda along the execution,\u201d Kagame said.<\/p>\n<p>The President said that the factory will employ a significant number of people and impart new skills to the workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfiPrecast will reduce our country\u2019s import bill and we expect that these products will be exported to the region as well. It means a lot that this is a Rwandan investment. We continue to welcome investors from all over the world, starting from home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the government will continue to do its best to support the private sector in getting the most from creative investments.<\/p>\n<p>Bayigamba commended Kagame\u2019s leadership that provides conducive investment environment in the country.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe appreciate your leadership that makes such investment possible. You have supported us and we got all the necessary during the construction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The factory occupies 15 hectares of land. The firm\u2019s construction works started in May 2015 and started production in March 2016.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23279 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/factory.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23280 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fatco.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23281 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fctry.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has yesterday inaugurated a new factory manufacturing pre-cast concrete and urged investors to continue investing even in other sectors.<\/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-36544","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\/36544","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=36544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36544"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36544"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}