{"id":37598,"date":"2018-05-30T17:26:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/resignation-race-nyagatare-mayor-vices-resign\/"},"modified":"2018-06-02T08:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T08:45:32","slug":"resignation-race-nyagatare-mayor-vices-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/resignation-race-nyagatare-mayor-vices-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Resignation race? Nyagatare mayor, vices resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trio handed their resignation letters to the District Council on Wednesday citing \u2018personal reasons\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>The Chairperson of Nyagatare District Council, Chantal Atukunda Rukeba confirmed to IGIHE that they received the letters Wednesday mid-day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey cited personal reasons,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether there is no problem that pushed them to resign at once, Atukunde said that they consider what is in the letters and evaluate their resignations after.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, as District council, we have to evaluate their resignations. There are no problems we can identify now. Tomorrow we will convene council members\u2019 general meeting to examine the resignation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said that she will comment about the appointment of interim mayor after tomorrow\u2019s council general meeting. <\/p>\n<p>Eastern Province Governor, Fred Mufulukye told IGIHE that he also received the copies of the trio\u2019s letters.<\/p>\n<p>A source told IGIHE that Wednesday morning, the trio had reported to the Provincial Office.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation in Nyagatare came four days after the same scenario in Bugesera District where all members of the Executive Committee resigned citing personal reasons.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25552 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/meya_w_akarere_ka_nyagatare-3-98ce0.jpg\" alt=\"Nyagatare Mayor George Mupenzi and vices resigned citing personal reasons\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a seemingly ongoing reshuffle in districts leadership, the Mayor of Nyagatare District, George Mupenzi, Vice-Mayor in Charge of Economic Development, Didace Kayitare and the Vice-Mayor in Charge of Social Affairs, Domithille Musabyemariya have resigned. <\/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-37598","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\/37598","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=37598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37598"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37598"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}