The Newly appointed Prime Minister Pierre Damien Habumuremyi has taken his oath of his new office and imidiately named the cabinet.
His new cabinet named constitute 22 Minister and three others still missing including Minister of Education where he has been.
according to the Article 123 of the constitution, before assuming office, the Prime Minister, Ministers, Ministers of State and other members of Cabinet shall take oath before the President of the Republic, Parliament and the Supreme Court.
The swearing-in which was presided over by president Paul Kagame also saw other ministers named re-swearing-in.
President Kagame reminded the cabinet of working in unity and argued them to work harder and identify themselves with their own values other other defining values for them.
Habumuremyi replaced Bernard Makuza who has been also appointed by the president as senate along with other three.
The other three nominated senators include Jean Damascène Ntawukuriryayo the deputy speaker of lower chamber of parliament, Tito Rutaremara the Rwanda’s Ombudsman, and Penelope Kantarama the former western province governor now Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Internal security.
Pierre Damien Habumuremyi was appointed the Minister of Education replacing Charles Murigande, who has been commissioned to Japan as Ambassador in the recent reshuffle.
Bernard Makuza born in 1961 has been the Prime Minister of Rwanda since March 2000.
He was appointed Prime Minister following the resignation of Pierre Célestin Rwigema, who had been strongly criticized in the Rwandan press and by some parliamentarians.
Makuza was the Rwandan Ambassador to Burundi and then to Germany before being appointed as Prime Minister.
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