{"id":9066,"date":"2013-07-14T03:58:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T03:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/new-rdf-chief-of-defence-staff-eac-minister-swon\/"},"modified":"2013-07-19T09:17:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T09:17:13","slug":"new-rdf-chief-of-defence-staff-eac-minister-swon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/new-rdf-chief-of-defence-staff-eac-minister-swon\/","title":{"rendered":"New RDF Chief of Defence Staff, EAC Minister Swon in"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3242 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/tr5-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{President Paul Kagame presided over the swearing in of the Minister of the East African Community, Jacqueline Muhongayire, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Patrick Nyamvumba and Dan Munyuza, the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Operations in the Parliament building.}}<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the newly sworn in officials on July 12, President Kagame promised support and asked them to work hard so that Rwanda can progress. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to be serious about our responsibilities. Where our country stands today and where we are going does not allow any of us to work at same pace as those more advanced,\u201d said President Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAchieving our goals will require a change of mindset, an understanding of our challenges and what we need to be able to face our challenges. We also have to be ready to work hard to meet our challenges and we have to strive for efficiency. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda cannot be changed by words alone, we need action and we need to work together,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline Muhongayire replaces Monique Mukaruliza, who had been minister since March 2008. was a Member of Parliament in the East African Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>In the Rwanda Defence Forces, General Patrick Nyamvumba (pictured above) replaces Lt. General Charles Kayonga. <\/p>\n<p>Gen. Nyamvumba previously served in Sudan where he was the force commander of the United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and Dan Munyuza was transferred from the Military to the Police as Deputy Inspector General in chaarge of Operations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3243 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uuui.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>MOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{President Paul Kagame presided over the swearing in of the Minister of the East African Community, Jacqueline Muhongayire, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Patrick Nyamvumba and Dan Munyuza, the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Operations in the Parliament building.}} Speaking to the newly sworn in officials on July 12, President Kagame [&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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066","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=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}