One of the residents told IGIHE that REB contracted Real Vision Company in 2014 to construct the laboratory. Real Vision also hired services of residents in the area to supply labor, sand and steel among other construction materials. <\/p>\n
He explained that the contractor halted activities and left without paying them. REB appointed another contractor and promised to pay arrears. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvery year, REB told us that our arrears would be catered for in the next fiscal budget. Five years on, we have not received payments yet we used to get goods and materials from other hardware stores,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Affected residents sought assistance from Kayonza district to recover their money but efforts were futile. <\/p>\n
The letter to which IGIHE has a copy indicated that the mayor of Kayonza district , Jean Claude Murenzi informed REB about the problem and sent the list of residents to be paid. <\/p>\n
One of the officials from the Ministry of Education has confirmed that Kayonza district officials wrote the letter requesting for the payments. <\/p>\n
Commenting about the matter in a short message, REB Director General, Dr Iren\u00e9 Ndayamabaje has told IGIHE that the Ministry of Education has commissioned a committee to follow up the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Forty residents from Kayonza district, Eastern Province, who worked with a contractor to build a laboratory at Gahini Secondary School have accused Rwanda Education Board (REB) of not paying for their labor and materials worth Rwf 12 million now for five years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-homenews","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\/39028","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39028"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39028"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}