{"id":37295,"date":"2018-04-12T18:41:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T18:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gatete-takes-over-mininfra\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T10:59:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:59:19","slug":"gatete-takes-over-mininfra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gatete-takes-over-mininfra\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatete takes over MININFRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The handover ceremony took place in Kigali on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, Musoni thanked President Paul Kagame who had trusted and appointed him in various positions.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked for the cooperation with State Ministers and the ministry staff in implementing different programs.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI would like to use this opportunity to welcome Gatete and thank him for taking responsibilities to head this ministry, it is an honor, it is a challenging job, but fortunately he will not get challenged as he had been encountering with different programmes of this ministry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, Gatete said that the ministry has different projects to implement in line with government\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n<p>He said he will continue with implementing programs of building roads, water and electricity which would be accessible to all Rwandans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe job of this ministry is not such easy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he will invest efforts in electricity distribution programmes, where the country targets 100% population access by 2024 from the current 40%.<\/p>\n<p>Gatete was appointed in Mininfra by President Paul Kagame on April 6th. He had been the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning since 2013.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24760 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_4046-c3cf4.jpg\" alt=\"Former Infrastructure Minister James Musoni\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24761 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_4195-b0d68.jpg\" alt=\"Former Infrastructure Minister James Musoni handing over to incoming Minister, Amb. Claver Gatete\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24759 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_4237-76500.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24763 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_4242-9b990.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24762 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mos_4268-0268f.jpg\" alt=\"Incoming Infrastructure Minister, Amb. Claver Gatete, speaking to the press\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Infrastructure Minister James Musoni has handed over to incoming Minister, Amb. Claver Gatete who was appointed to the Ministry last week.<\/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":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37295","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\/37295","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=37295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37295"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37295"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}