{"id":40315,"date":"2019-11-06T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T09:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/newly-appointed-rdf-chief-of-defence-staff-and\/"},"modified":"2019-11-07T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:03:13","slug":"newly-appointed-rdf-chief-of-defence-staff-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/newly-appointed-rdf-chief-of-defence-staff-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly appointed RDF Chief of Defence Staff and Reserve Force Chief of Staff assume office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the same function, the Reserve Force Chief of Staff, Gen F Ibingira was handed over office by Lt Gen J Musemakweli.  <\/p>\n<p>In his farewell address, Gen P Nyamvumba thanked the appointing authority for having given him the opportunity to lead one of the best institutions in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether we have registered many achievements but a lot more needs to be done to get the Force to the intended level. I trust you will be able to achieve your mission as you have here a dedicated and strong team to work with. I wish you, your staff and the entire RDF all the best,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The newly appointed CDS Gen Jean Bosco Kazura in his takeover speech thanked President Paul Kagame for having entrusted in him to lead RDF, a strong institution at home and even beyond. <\/p>\n<p>He also thanked the outgoing CDS for an exemplary leadership that led RDF to where it is today. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will emulate you aiming at even doing better. I am coming with humility and assure you to accommodate everybody\u2019s contribution towards building RDF and our country in general,\u201d assured  Gen Kazura.  <\/p>\n<p>The current handover\/ takeover office follows the changes and new deployments effected on 04 Nov 19 by President of the Republic of Rwanda and Commander in Chief of the RDF.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33269 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/webpn26b8c.jpg\" alt=\"The newly appointed RDF Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen Jean Bosco Kazura assumed office handed over office by his predecessor, Gen Patrick Nyamvumba\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33266 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aaahand2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33267 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aaahand3.jpg\" alt=\"In his farewell address, Gen P Nyamvumba thanked the appointing authority for having given him the opportunity to lead one of the best institutions in Rwanda.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33268 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aaahand1.jpg\" alt=\"The Reserve Force Chief of Staff, Gen F Ibingira was handed over office by Lt Gen J Musemakweli. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move to implement changes and deployments made on Monday 4th November 2019 by the President of Rwanda and Commander in Chief of RDF, the newly appointed RDF Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen Jean Bosco Kazura assumed office yesterday afternoon handed over office by his predecessor, Gen Patrick Nyamvumba.<\/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-40315","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\/40315","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=40315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40315"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40315"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}