{"id":44358,"date":"2021-09-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-chairs-high-command-council\/"},"modified":"2021-09-13T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:49:32","slug":"kagame-chairs-high-command-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-chairs-high-command-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame chairs High Command Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commander-in-Chief called on all present to uphold the values of discipline, service to country and hard work on which RDF was founded. He reminded the participants of their role in ensuring the sustainability of Rwanda\u2019s socio-economic transformation and hard-earned security. <\/p>\n<p>The Commander-in-Chief held senior officers accountable for delivering RDF\u2019s mission and stressed the need for unwavering commitment to appropriate management of resources in their respective institutions. <\/p>\n<p>The Commander-in-Chief cited examples of complacency, inefficiency and failures and pledged to the council that he would not waver in taking appropriate actions against those who fail to fulfil their responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The High Command Council is a periodic decision-making council and a strategic guidance forum chaired by the Commander-in-Chief. <\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by the Minister of Defence, Chief of Defence Staff, Service Chiefs, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Division, Brigade and Unit Commanders, Commandants of Military schools and Hospital, Joint General Staff and Heads of Departments from the RDF Headquarters and other junior officers and lower level commanders of RDF units as well as senior officials from RNP and NISS.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39473 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/csm_1_6f1a7e4c22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39471 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-99.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39470 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-124.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39472 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-109.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{All Photos: MoD}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame and Commander-in-Chief of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), on Thursday 9th September 2021, chaired a High Command Council of members from RDF, Rwanda National Police (RNP) and the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS).}<\/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-44358","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\/44358","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=44358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44358"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44358"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}