{"id":37551,"date":"2018-05-25T13:10:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/city-of-kigali-gets-new-mayor\/"},"modified":"2018-05-27T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T10:20:48","slug":"city-of-kigali-gets-new-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/city-of-kigali-gets-new-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Kigali gets new mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rwakazina who was elected with a total of 146 votes (94.8%) while her competitor, Henriette Murekatete gained eight votes (5.2%) from 154 voters. <\/p>\n

The elections was presided over by the Secretary General of National Electoral Commission, Prof Kalisa Mbanda.<\/p>\n

Rwakazina said that based on existing performance contracts, she will prioritise the implementation of City Master Plan so that Kigali will be affordable city to people from different economic categories.<\/p>\n

She pledged to develop women and youth cooperatives and added that she will always consult fellow City Hall staff for advice.<\/p>\n

She said that the city needs partnership with different institutions capable of implementing city programmes, for her that\u2019s a way to go.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old woman and mother of two children had been a lecturer in university of Rwanda since 2000 to 2008. <\/p>\n

Rwakazina had also been the Vice-Secretary of Rwanda Association of Local Government Authorities (RALGA) since 2010 to 2013.<\/p>\n

Since 2013 to today, Rwakazina has been the coordinator of UN support programmes in Rwanda.<\/p>\n

\"Marie<\/figure>\n
\"Henriette<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marie Chantal Rwakazina has been elected the new City of Kigali (CoK) mayor replacing Pascal Nyamulinda who resigned in April. <\/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-37551","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\/37551","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=37551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37551"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37551"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}