{"id":37472,"date":"2018-05-14T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/makuza-attends-sierra-leone-president\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:42:59","slug":"makuza-attends-sierra-leone-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/makuza-attends-sierra-leone-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Makuza attends Sierra Leone President inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking place in Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, on 12th May 2018, the ceremony was attended by different Heads of State and Government among others, President George Weah of Liberia, First Lady of Gambia, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Via his twitter account, Bernard Makuza announced that he had attended the Inauguration ceremony of the new President of Sierra Leone in Freetown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the inauguration ceremonies, I paid a courtesy visit to the new President of Sierra Leone and delivered a personal message and a gift from his Rwandan counterpart President Paul Kagame.&#8221;, reads the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>During the Inauguration Ceremony, President Bio vowed to be president for all Sierra Leoneans, to fight corruption and poverty and run the country in a \u201cdisciplined, honest and professional manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier Julius Maada Bio was declared the winner and proclaimed as the president of the Republic of Sierra Leone, having  pollied 1,319,406 \u2013 which is 51.82% of the total votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and Sierra Leone enjoy good bilateral relations. Dr. Harebamungu Mathias was the first ambassador to Sierra Leone in October 2017.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25242 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mada-bio-f8573.jpg\" alt=\"President Bio vowed to be president for all Sierra Leoneans, to fight corruption and poverty and run the country in a \u201cdisciplined, honest and professional manner.\u201d\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25241 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dderuajxuaepor0-57387.jpg\" alt=\"On Behalf of Rwanda, the President of the Rwandan Senate, Bernard Makuza, attended the inauguration ceremony of the Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio as Sierra Leone President\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Behalf of Rwanda, the President of the Rwandan Senate, Bernard Makuza, attended the inauguration ceremony of the Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio as the President of Sierra Leone at the national stadium in Freetown where after the duo held discussions. <\/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-37472","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\/37472","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=37472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37472"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37472"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}