{"id":43821,"date":"2021-07-02T05:10:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/wasac-boss-fired\/"},"modified":"2021-07-03T04:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T04:58:20","slug":"wasac-boss-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wasac-boss-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"WASAC boss fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Byigero\u2019s dismissal has been announced in a communiqu\u00e9 signed by Prime Minister, Dr. Edouard Ngirente on behalf of President Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>The communiqu\u00e9 which also announced Gis\u00e8le Umuhumuza as the Acting CEO of WASAC reads that the decision takes immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Byigero was appointed CEO of WASAC on 15th December 2020 taking over from Eng Aim\u00e9 Muzola.   <\/p>\n<p>The reason for his dismissal has not been communicated.  <\/p>\n<p>Umuhumuza has been serving as the Deputy CEO and Board Member at WASAC.  <\/p>\n<p>WASAC has 1500 employees at its headquarters, 20 branches and 25 water treatment plants across the country. Rwanda targets universal access to safe water by 2024.  <\/p>\n<p>It is among public institutions reportedly mired by funds mismanagement where the Auditor General\u2019s report indicates that WASAC lost Rwf 2.7 billion in 2019 and Rwf9.4 billion in 2020.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38801 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/byigero_yirukanywe_amaze_amezi_atandatu_ari_umuyobozi_mukuru_wa_wasac.png\" alt=\"Alfred Dusenge Byigero, the Chief Executive Officer of Water and Sanitation Corporation has been dismissed. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38802 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umuhumuza_gisele_wahawe_kuyobora_wasac_by_agateganyo_yari_asanzwe_ari_umuyobozi_mukuru_wungirije.jpg\" alt=\"Gis\u00e8le Umuhumuza has been appointed the Acting CEO of WASAC.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38803 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/letter_pmpng1fd6-862f8.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Alfred Dusenge Byigero, the Chief Executive Officer of Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC) has been dismissed from the position which he has held for six months and two weeks.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/43821","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43821"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43821"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}