{"id":36624,"date":"2017-12-28T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T13:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-street-vendors-open-phone-shop\/"},"modified":"2017-12-28T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T10:46:00","slug":"former-street-vendors-open-phone-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-street-vendors-open-phone-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Former street vendors open phone shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 250 members, each member contributed Rwf20,000 in the cooperative named \u2018Ikoranabuhanga n\u2019Iterambere bigera kuri buri wese\u2019 loosely translated as Inclusive Technology and Development. The three month-old cooperative operates from Kigali downtown opposite M.Peace Plaza building.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media at the official opening of the shop on Wednesday, president of the cooperative, Isaie Hakizimana said that getting 250 vendors off the streets will close the market for stolen electronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will do this business legally and will improve transparency as all phones will be registered on the owners\u2019 identity before they are sold,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Th\u00e9og\u00e8ne Ngendahimana, a member of the cooperative said they are ready to jointly end street vending by selling recognized commodities with the main purpose of development.<\/p>\n<p>He said they expect much profit from the new shop with security at the forefront.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first profit is security, most of us used to be suspicious of buying stolen products which could lead usto jail,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Good Governance in the City of Kigali, Damasc\u00e8ne Kanamugire hailed former street vendors for the idea saying that no development can be attained unless people abide by laws and contribute to security sustainability.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cYou are going to operate legally. A good Rwandan operates in transparency, truthfulness and abides by the laws,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Within the three months of operations, the cooperative members have recovered and handed to Police different electronics including 24 smartphones, 20 mobile phones and eight laptops, all worth Rwf3.6 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23570 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/stt_vendors.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23569 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/vnfors.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former street vendors of mobile phone devices and other electronics in a Kigali downtown area commonly known as \u2018Ku Iposita\u2019, have formed a cooperative and opened a new shop that will rid them of buying and selling stolen stuffs.  <\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36624","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\/36624","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=36624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36624"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36624"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}