{"id":40465,"date":"2019-12-05T16:05:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/open-palm-the-anti-corruption-monument-at-kigali\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:00:57","slug":"open-palm-the-anti-corruption-monument-at-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/open-palm-the-anti-corruption-monument-at-kigali\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Palm: The anti-corruption monument at Kigali Convention Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 9th December, Rwanda will host for the fourth time, the International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award (ECE), 2019 in partnership with the Government of Qatar.<br \/>\nThe steel hand symbolizes the pressing necessity of tackling corruption and saying \u2018NO\u2019 to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston Busingye, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General told the media that the monument will be inaugurated on Monday, 9th December as the world will be marking  International Anti-Corruption day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis monument was seen circulating on social media and people wondered what it meant. It is a daily reminder of embracing transparency and corruption-free practices. It is an open palm showing that there is nothing to hide as long as transparency is observed in society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every year, during the International Anti-Corruption Excellence Awards, The Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Center (ROLACC) that was established in Doha, Qatar places the hand monument in the city that will host the ceremony. The monument was designed by Ahmed Al Bahrani, an Iraqi sculptor.<\/p>\n<p>Such monuments have already been placed in different countries around the world including Malaysia, Switzerland, and at the United Nations headquarter in, Vienna, Austria where the Anti-Corruption Excellence Awards were held in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will bring together more than 600 guests including award nominees and winners and the organizing committee of the award.<\/p>\n<p>President Paul Kagame and Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar will be among the chief guests. <\/p>\n<p>Minister Busingye says that Rwanda was chosen to host the ceremony because of the reputation President Paul Kagame has built in fighting corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Corruption Perception Index published by Transparency International last year placed Rwanda at the fourth place of countries leading the fight against corruption in Africa after Seychelles, Botswana and Cabo Verde.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33818 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-2007-4fa07.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda will host for the fourth time, the International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award (ECE),\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33819 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6-1472-fb0cf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33820 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-2808-2-26655.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33821 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-2008-88a3b.jpg\" alt=\"Minister Busingye says that Rwanda was chosen to host the ceremony because of the reputation President Paul Kagame has built in fighting corruption.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-33822 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-1680-57edf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media users continue to marvel and share pictures of \u201cThe Hand\u201d steel monument that has been placed in the middle of the Convention Centre garden. Many wonder what it exactly stands for.<\/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-40465","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\/40465","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=40465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40465"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40465"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}