{"id":36959,"date":"2018-02-13T07:35:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T07:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwf200-million-gakenke-structure-to-be-razed-down\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T07:35:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T07:35:23","slug":"rwf200-million-gakenke-structure-to-be-razed-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwf200-million-gakenke-structure-to-be-razed-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwf200 million Gakenke structure to be razed down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwf200 million-worth building was constructed back in 2006 and is to be razed down 12 years after without being put to any gainful use.  <\/p>\n<p>Following the merger of former Ruhondo and Cyabingo Communes and forming of Bugarura District, the building was meant to house the offices of the new district which was, however, replaced with Gakenke district, leaving the structure isolated in bushes.<br \/>\nLocals say that their efforts to get the facility constructed have gone to waste as they didn\u2019t benefit from it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResources spent on this house have been rendered to waste.  Why can\u2019t it be used for other development activities or give us the facility and we use it as base for teaching our children various skills,\u201d wonders Jonas Mutiganda, a resident of the area. <\/p>\n<p>Gakenke District Vice-Mayor in charge of Economic Development Aim\u00e9 Fran\u00e7ois Niyonsenga said that the building will be razed down to give path for construction of decent vocational and training school facilities. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe have agreed with Workforce Development Authority (WDA) that this facility will be razed down and construct a more decent one. Construction works will start by March this year and will be completed by 2018.,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24013 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ofe.jpg\" alt=\"This facility will be razed down, so that a more decent one is constructed\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24012 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dhwes.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24011 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/hfe-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Rwf200 million-worth building was constructed back in 2006 and is to be razed down 12 years after without being put to any gainful use\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Bugarura in Gakenke District have decried the impending razing down of a structure  that had been constructed to house administrative offices in the area to pave way for construction of a Technical Vocational and Training School, without rendering the building to any good use, putting huge sums of money to waste.  <\/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-36959","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\/36959","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=36959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36959"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36959"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}