{"id":37177,"date":"2018-03-24T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/miners-urged-on-fighting-illegal-dealers\/"},"modified":"2018-03-24T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T14:44:37","slug":"miners-urged-on-fighting-illegal-dealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/miners-urged-on-fighting-illegal-dealers\/","title":{"rendered":"Miners urged on fighting illegal dealers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gatare who was speaking yesterday in a meeting with miners in Muhanga urged miners to continue increasing productivity by fighting illegal mining which cause disastrous deaths. He also reminded them to perform their job while preserving the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sector contributes enough to raise the economy of the country as products are  exported and bring foreign currencies. We should put efforts together to fight those practices that interfere with production. We should not let them get the market for their minerals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hilaire Habyarimana, one of miners in Muhanga District said that they still have many problems in the sector including bad mining practices.<br \/>\nHe said that they should re-asses themselves and do what their permits allow them to.<\/p>\n<p>In eleven sectors of Muhanga District, there are 42 mining companies employing 13,432 people.<\/p>\n<p>In the recently released Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 2017, mining and quarrying contributed 51% to the growth of industry sector in Rwanda.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24525 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abitabiriye_inama_y_abacukuzi_b_amabuye_y_agaciro-aba4a.jpg\" alt=\"Miners from Muhanga and Huye Districts\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24524 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gatare_francis_arasaba_abacukuzi_gukurikiza_inama_bagirwa_-b0eb1_1_.jpg\" alt=\"The Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board, Francis Gatare\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board, Francis Gatare has urged miners in Muhanga and Huye Districts to join efforts in combating illegal mining which haunts the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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-37177","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\/37177","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37177"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37177"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}