{Former Premier Pierre-Damien Habumuremyi has been appointed head the Chancellery for Heroes, National Orders and Decorations of Honor (Cheno).}
Aaccording to minutes from the cabinet meeting held Friday, Habumuremyi replaces Dr. Augustin Iyamuremye who goes to head Rwanda Elders Advisory Council.
Meanwhile, Cheno’s supreme organ, the Council, which usually has nine members at the moment, has three seats vacant.
This comes after Cabinet also moved one of its members, Marie Mukantabana to the Rwanda Elders Advisory Council. In the past, two other members also left – with the RDF representative Maj. Gen Jacques Musemakweli assigned other duties while Francesca Tengera became a lawmaker.
Elders Advisory Forum
The Rwanda Elders Advisory Council, a key organ of the Rwanda Elders Advisory Forum (Reaf) mooted over two years ago, is also taking shape after Cabinet approved its leadership and composition.
Denis Polisi, Antoine Mugesera, Dr. Joseph Karemera, Sheikh Abdul Karim Harerimana, Mukantabana [also formerly in Cheno] and Agnes Mukabaranga are the other members of the Council.
Mugesera, Dr. Karemera and Mukabaranga are former Senators who left the Upper House in the recent past after serving out their eight year non-renewable term. Polisi is also a former member of the Lower House while Harelimana, former minister and one of the nine legislators representing Rwanda in the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala), resigned from the regional legislature, earlier this month.
The Council is, among others, supposed to advise government on numerous issues, including national political orientation and challenges of political, economic, social and cultural dimensions, among others.
{{The New Times}}
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