{"id":36720,"date":"2018-01-08T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-wants-car-free-day-sports-sustainable\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T14:59:20","slug":"kagame-wants-car-free-day-sports-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-wants-car-free-day-sports-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame wants \u2018car free day\u2019 sports sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through his twitter handle, Kagame encouraged participants in the exercise saying that they should make it sustainable for health benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy to see how car-free day is successful and continuing to attract thousands not only in Kigali but across the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to everyone who participates in car free day. We should make it sustainable\/long term. The health and other benefits are enormous!\u201d reads his tweet.<\/p>\n<p>While participating in the sports last month, Kagame called for increase of hours for the programme to help contribute in promoting healthy life among Rwandans.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Kagame\u2019s call, the City of Kigali Mayor Pascal Nyamulinda announced, while participating in \u2018car free day\u2019 yesterday, that they have increased days of the activity from one to two days monthly.<\/p>\n<p>He said the mass sports will take place at the first and third weekends of every month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can assure you that it will occur twice a month as was requested by the Head of State when he was visiting us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Car Free Day programme was launched in 2016 and was aimed at sensitizing city dwellers on sports culture and preventing non-communicable diseases.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23667 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pk-14.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame last month participated in sports\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has lauded the way \u2018car free day\u2019 (mass sports programme) exercise is becoming successful by attracting thousands of participants in Kigali and across the country, urging that it should be sustainable.<\/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-36720","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\/36720","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=36720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36720"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36720"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}