{"id":53898,"date":"2025-04-16T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/erasme-ntazinda-relieved-of-duties-as-mayor-of-nyanza-district\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:39:53","slug":"erasme-ntazinda-relieved-of-duties-as-mayor-of-nyanza-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/erasme-ntazinda-relieved-of-duties-as-mayor-of-nyanza-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasme Ntazinda relieved of duties as Mayor of Nyanza District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement released following the meeting, council attributed the decision to Ntazinda&#8217;s &#8216;failure to adequately fulfill his responsibilities&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ntazinda was in his second term as Mayor, having won re-election in the 2021 local elections after serving his first five-year term. His prior experience includes a role as the President of the Rayon Sports Volleyball Club.<\/p>\n<p>Ntazinda&#8217;s academic qualifications include a Master\u2019s degree in Urban Planning from Laval University in Canada, which he earned in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Kajyambere, the district\u2019s Vice Mayor in charge of Economic Development, will serve as the interim Mayor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-85791\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-15_at_22.05_49_a5294487-d44eb.jpg\" alt=\"Erasme Ntazinda has been relieved of duties as Mayor of Nyanza District\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erasme Ntazinda has been relieved of his duties as Mayor of Nyanza District. The decision to suspend him was made during an extraordinary district council meeting held on April 15, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000085792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53898","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":2000085792,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-15_at_22.05_49_a5294487-d44eb.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-15_at_22.05_49_a5294487-d44eb.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-15_at_22.05_49_a5294487-d44eb.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-15_at_22.05_49_a5294487-d44eb.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-15_at_22.05_49_a5294487-d44eb.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-15_at_22.05_49_a5294487-d44eb.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53898","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=53898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000085792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53898"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53898"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}