{"id":962,"date":"2011-10-10T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T12:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ntawukuriryayo-voted-new-rwanda-senate-president\/"},"modified":"2011-10-10T13:56:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T13:56:15","slug":"ntawukuriryayo-voted-new-rwanda-senate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ntawukuriryayo-voted-new-rwanda-senate-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ntawukuriryayo Voted New Rwanda Senate President"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-794 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jd_ntawukuriryayo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Doctor Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo has this afternoon been voted as the new Rwanda Senate President with 20 votes out of  4 votes from his opponent Teddy Gacinya.}}<\/p>\n<p>The remaining two posts of senate vice presidents were taken by former Prime Minister Bernard Makuza and Jeanne d&#8217;Arc Gakuba the ex- Kigali City Vice Mayor in charge of social affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The lower chamber of parliament also had its elections to replace the two vacant positions of the deputy speakers. <\/p>\n<p>The two posts were earlier held by Polisi Deni who resigned claiming personal reasons and Ntawukuriryayo who has just been appointed new senate president.<\/p>\n<p>Both members of lower chamber of parliament Evariste Karisa and  Marie Josee Kankera replaced the two on the posts of vice speakers. <\/p>\n<p>In related development, Dr Alvera Mukabaramba, has been appointed a new State Minister in charge of social affairs and community development in the Ministry of local government (MINALOC), replacing Marie Christine Nyatanyi who passed away recently.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Francoise Isumbangabo was also appointed as the State Minister for Energy and Water replacing Eng.Collette Ruhamya in the Ministry of Infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Mukabaramba once a presidential aspirant under the Progress and Concord Party (PPC) had just completed her senate mandate while Isumbangabo was a lecturer in ISAE \u2013 Busogo in the Northern Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Doctor Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo has this afternoon been voted as the new Rwanda Senate President with 20 votes out of 4 votes from his opponent Teddy Gacinya.}} The remaining two posts of senate vice presidents were taken by former Prime Minister Bernard Makuza and Jeanne d&#8217;Arc Gakuba the ex- Kigali City Vice Mayor in charge [&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":[294],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-abraham-rumanzi"],"bylines":[{"id":294,"name":"Abraham Rumanzi","slug":"abraham-rumanzi","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":294,"name":"Abraham Rumanzi","slug":"abraham-rumanzi","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}