{"id":39071,"date":"2019-04-01T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kabuye-cell-residents-raise-over-rwf130-million\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:01:32","slug":"kabuye-cell-residents-raise-over-rwf130-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kabuye-cell-residents-raise-over-rwf130-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabuye cell residents raise over Rwf130 million for infrastructure development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwf80 million out of total contributions will be allocated to the construction of 12 km road with the support of the government; Rwf 48 million will be utilized to install lights in different areas of the cell while Rwf 6 million will buy an ambulance. <\/p>\n<p>Theodore Dukuzimana, a resident of Kabuye cell who led the committee that mobilized the fund rising said the initiative was meant to partner with the government in development. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRealizing that we have poor roads; we conceived the idea and decided to seek own solutions. We sat together as residents agreed on making contributions and asked the government to draw the road master plan for us,\u201d he revealed. <\/p>\n<p>Dukuzimana explained that the initiative will be sustained to keep the partnership with the government in development projects. <\/p>\n<p>He said persistent theft in the area pushed residents to raise Rwf 48 million to install lights on 10km area which highly reduced theft cases. <\/p>\n<p>Gasabo district vice mayor for economic affairs, Raymond Chretien Mberabahizi said other residents should take lessons from the initiative. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a commendable act aligning with Rwanda\u2019s plan of mobilizing citizens to become self-reliant. We value such initiatives from citizens and others should emulate,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nMberabahizi explained the master plan for the road will have been completed finished by May 2019 so that construction activities can begin the next fiscal year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complete master plan will help to establish estimated total cost. We plan to support the initiative with Rwf 700 million at the beginning,\u201d he revealed. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28630 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abaturage_bikusanyirije_amafaranga_yo_kubaka_ibikorwa_remezo_muri_jabana-41fa8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Kabuye cell, Jabana sector of Gasabo district have raised Rwf 134 million for construction of infrastructures including tarmac road and erecting lighting poles along the road. <\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/39071","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=39071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39071"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39071"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}