{"id":37795,"date":"2018-06-30T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-rwf500-million-earmarked-for-kigali-city\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T11:07:08","slug":"over-rwf500-million-earmarked-for-kigali-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-rwf500-million-earmarked-for-kigali-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Rwf500 million earmarked for Kigali City master plan review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city master plan review budget was announced and approved Friday in the City Council meeting that was aimed at approving the 2018\/2019 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE, CoK Vice-mayor in charge of Economic Development, Parfait Busabizwa said that their target is to review the master plan after every five years so that they address challenges faced.<\/p>\n<p>He said that in the budget, they want to address challenges faced in the master plan that was designed in 2013. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cEvery five years, we trace back and see whether we implemented the master plan, challenges faced, and what to address so that people of all categories continue to live in the city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cActivities to be done have been identified. Among them, include changing where to create the road due to infrastructures that can be affected among others,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>He said that some places were designed for establishment of infrastructure, but investors did not have interest in those places which made the city give them to people to construct residential houses.<\/p>\n<p>The city master plan is also the priority of the new city mayor, Marie Chantal Rwakazina who said during the elections that she will prioritise its review.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Kigali 2018\/2019 budget is Rwf22.1 billion. A total of 68% will go to development activities including the construction 54-kilometer roads.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25979 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/igishushanyo_mbonera_giteganya_ko_mu_2040_agace_gakorerwamo_ibikorwa_by_ubucuruzi_muri_kigali_kagizwe_na_muhima_nyarugenge_na_kimicanga_ari_uku_kazaba_gateye-3605c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Kigali (CoK) has announced that they have allocated Rwf505 896 096 for review of the city master plan.<\/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-37795","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\/37795","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=37795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37795"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37795"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}