{"id":49207,"date":"2023-11-02T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/chief-economist-in-minecofin-dr-hitayezu-dismissed\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:05:11","slug":"chief-economist-in-minecofin-dr-hitayezu-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/chief-economist-in-minecofin-dr-hitayezu-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Economist in MINECOFIN, Dr. Hitayezu dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dismissal was announced through a statement signed by the Prime Minister, Dr. Edouard Ngirente on behalf of President Paul Kagame on 1st november 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hitayezu had been appointed to the position by the cabinet meeting held in July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He is an economist with more than 10 years of experience in economic policy analysis. Before joining MINECOFIN, he headed the research department at the Central Bank of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>He has also served on the Board of Directors in various institutions including Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-60888\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2023-11-02_at_01.16_01-1444c.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Economist in MINECOFIN, Dr. Hitayezu has been dismissed over alleged gross misconduct. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Chief Economist in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), Dr. Patrick Hitayezu has been dismissed from his duties due to &#8216;gross misconduct in performing his duties&#8217;.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000060889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-49207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000060889,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2023-11-02_at_01.16_01-1444c.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2023-11-02_at_01.16_01-1444c.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2023-11-02_at_01.16_01-1444c.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2023-11-02_at_01.16_01-1444c.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2023-11-02_at_01.16_01-1444c.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2023-11-02_at_01.16_01-1444c.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49207","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=49207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000060889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49207"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=49207"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=49207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}