{"id":675,"date":"2011-08-22T22:36:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tailors-disagree-fight-over-voting\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T22:37:07","slug":"tailors-disagree-fight-over-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tailors-disagree-fight-over-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailors Disagree,Fight Over Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Extreme disagrements that resulted into a fight marred the annual general meeting at Alpha Palace hotel held by tailors operating under an umbrella association COTRA .}}<\/p>\n<p>The tailors disagreed on the voting process aimed at choosing new association executives. The meeting was called off and postponed as a means of easing tension. <\/p>\n<p>Although members of the association accuse the incumbent management of poor performance, tailors disagreed mostly on candidates to be voted. Majority want the old executives to be replaced however, outgoing leaders seem hesitant.<\/p>\n<p>According to COTRA voting process the candidates are required to move out of the room as they are voted. However, some members  didn\u2019t trust the vote casting process criticizing it as fishy.<\/p>\n<p>One of the candidates Jean Paul  Binama who seemed to have the majority of suppoters was quick to point out how unlucky his day went. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;You see the old leaders don\u2019t want to leave the executive and they made it clear when they designed unfair voting process which my supporters didn\u2019t like and were forced to fight due to anger,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have always had worries that the outgoing team wanted to favor some of their friends, I wonder why some people jealous of each other and they don\u2019t want to see their colleague progressing,&#8221; he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Rugero paulin the outgoing president of the association admitted that there were some disagremments which he didnt want to disclose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I dont want to say anything now but what I i can assure you is that we&#8217;re going to have an organaised election next Monday,&#8221; he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>The Alpha Palace hotel management at some point had to intervene in order to calm the situation since the fracas was feared to vandalize some of the hotel&#8217;s propety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Extreme disagrements that resulted into a fight marred the annual general meeting at Alpha Palace hotel held by tailors operating under an umbrella association COTRA .}} The tailors disagreed on the voting process aimed at choosing new association executives. The meeting was called off and postponed as a means of easing tension. Although members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","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":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","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":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}