BY GEORGE KAGAME
In a bid to enhance access to energy resources and improve the quality of public transport services in the country, the Ministry of Infrastructure is set to introduce a National Energy Development and a National Transport Development Agency in 2009 to coordinate both sectors and promote dialogue between the private and public sectors.
The initiatives are contained in the ministry's second phase of decentralization programmes (2008-2012)-a five work policy that stipulates the tasks and objectives it aims to achieve in the five years. Among other projects in the five year plan also includes continued efforts in training infrastructural planners in the country to the lowest local government authorities, and building a strong computerized database of the country’s infrastructure programmes such that monitoring by local government authorities so that implementation and evaluation is simplified.
In a telephone interview, Joseph Mvurirwenande the Acting director of planning in the Ministry of Infrastructure confirmed the plans and said; "we are working on it", he added that specialists are working on a framework and it is in advanced stages and that the plans will soon be released to the public. Mvurirwenande however refused to provide any further details concerning the projects. But another senior officer in the Ministry Alexis Karani said that these two agencies will first serve as examples before the ministry sets up other national regulatory agencies in the Information and communication technology, Habitat & Urbanisation, and Meteorology sectors that it oversees. Karani said this would make service delivery easier all over the country as district authorities will be dealing with independent agencies instead of the ministry as has been the case.
The new initiatives according to Mininfra officials is part of ongoing administrative reforms that began in 2006 and will see the ministry transfer some of its responsibilities to districts and remain with the task of designing policies. Prior to these new developments, Mininfra has been the sole body involved in planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating the five sectors. The new reforms are also meant to decrease government’s monopoly and invite investors on the table so that by 2012 the mentioned sectors are in the hands of the private sector, where government officials hope competence in service provision will greatly improve.
Apart from charcoal, government is the sole supplier and regulator of energy resources in the country while the transport sector is largely in the hands of the private investors with meagre government involvement in managing the national public transport agency Onatracom.
The move to set up a national transport will according Albert Mugisha a regular commuter in Kigali encourage investors in the public sector like Atraco to adhere to basic standards in managing transport services like hygiene inside their vehicles. "Currently the setting up of standards in the sector is left to the greedy hands of private investors. Who only care for profit. The new reforms in the sector especially help raise the standards of transporting livestock for consumption from rural to urban areas."
Wednesday 14 January 2009
Man causes Kigali reproach with public masturbation at KBC
BY GEORGE KAGAME
On the onset of Rwanda's ascension to the East African Community table, Jaque Ruzibiza whom you can safely refer to hereafter as Uwijenga a 30 something small scale investor in Nyamirambo confided with me that it was good that we were joining the EAC but Uwijenga later revealed a deep seated resentment at Kigali's character and identity being consumed by the vices from other EAC members.
He mentioned Kenya and Uganda as being the bases of all sorts of corruption and if their way of life came to Rwanda, 'innocent' Rwandans would have their 'Girl Next Door' image corrupted and spoiled.
Uwijenga aside, there's a another debate currently doing the rounds in the moral circles of East Africa. The debate is concerned with finding out which of the EAC five cities (plus Arusha) is the most perverted. Since their debate is not official in any country it is goes that the statistics its students refer to can be ignored. However the debate-at its latest postings-states that Dar Salaam remains the most morally corrupt place in the East African region. The reasoning is that having been under the heavy and watchful yoke of communism for a very long-while, Tanzania opened up too soon to the temptations of a free market enterprise economy in the mid 1990s when 'Baaba wa Taifa'-Father of the Nation Julius Nyerere saw the light and converted.
It is also worth noting that during the mid 1990s the world was undergoing its most significant transition in modern times. The move towards the information and communication technology lifestyle, there were simply too many choices of consumer gadgets to make normal life extraordinary. Even in countries where the control and surveillance of communism had not existed earlier, the excitement was beyond imagination. So Tanzania came from the stage of its development where the government dictated or determined the dressing code of common men to the the stage where the individual and his/her freedom was an entitlement. The story goes that Tanzanians did everything in their power to catch up with capitalism. My classmate from Dar-as if to emphasize the new vision of his country nicknamed himself Capitalist, the other "American" and another one Washington.
The beautiful and large coastal city of Tanzania became a hotbed of many enterprises like a thriving commercial market for body parts of albinos-believed to be helpful in complimenting ARVs-and new lifestyles like homosexuals'. When the new generation of urban commercial pop music became available on ordinary computers, many in Dar became pop artists and the Tanzanian music industry expanded taking up all the traits of American pop star culture like bling bling, bar fights, pseudo rivalries and a couple of anecdotes of women's thighs bursts and painted faces.
You may wonder where this Dar drama is heading, i'll save you. Last weekend as the city celebrated the arrival of 2009 at KBC, a popular and enduring feature of Kigali's night life was one of such venues that were set to host the joyous Kigali's partying people. The club was parked to capacity, the music was not the kind to write home about but the crowd was extremely lively. There's no amount of words to describe the magnitude and quality of beautiful women that were attending call that night. Everyone seemed happy-or made a successful impression of being so.
A certain man believed to be in his 30s whom you can safely refer to as Kavukire took a seat on one of the open Bingalos in KBC with a clear view of the dance-floor. He unzipped his trousers and openly began masturbating, he stroked his penis according to the rhythm and pace of the music and kept at this ordeal for over four hours. He seemed not to mind even when one patron took his photograph. Finally Kavukire stood up zipped up and walked towards the dance-floor. His story somehow got to the ears of the aforementioned Tanzanians who were quick to opine between themselves about the issue. As usual Kigali Notes correspondent Big Ben Tumbo got some of the Tanzanian deliberations.
Capitalist: Huh, Kavukire came, he saw and he conquered!
American: What do you mean? Oh, i get it. He imagined himself making love to the beautiful ladies that were on the dance floor?
Washington: Uhhmm! These Rwandans, that kind of stuff did not come from the EAC. They are learning too much too quick. If Kigali men are busy masturbating in public who then is taking care of the beautiful women that country is reputed to have in large numbers?
On the onset of Rwanda's ascension to the East African Community table, Jaque Ruzibiza whom you can safely refer to hereafter as Uwijenga a 30 something small scale investor in Nyamirambo confided with me that it was good that we were joining the EAC but Uwijenga later revealed a deep seated resentment at Kigali's character and identity being consumed by the vices from other EAC members.
He mentioned Kenya and Uganda as being the bases of all sorts of corruption and if their way of life came to Rwanda, 'innocent' Rwandans would have their 'Girl Next Door' image corrupted and spoiled.
Uwijenga aside, there's a another debate currently doing the rounds in the moral circles of East Africa. The debate is concerned with finding out which of the EAC five cities (plus Arusha) is the most perverted. Since their debate is not official in any country it is goes that the statistics its students refer to can be ignored. However the debate-at its latest postings-states that Dar Salaam remains the most morally corrupt place in the East African region. The reasoning is that having been under the heavy and watchful yoke of communism for a very long-while, Tanzania opened up too soon to the temptations of a free market enterprise economy in the mid 1990s when 'Baaba wa Taifa'-Father of the Nation Julius Nyerere saw the light and converted.
It is also worth noting that during the mid 1990s the world was undergoing its most significant transition in modern times. The move towards the information and communication technology lifestyle, there were simply too many choices of consumer gadgets to make normal life extraordinary. Even in countries where the control and surveillance of communism had not existed earlier, the excitement was beyond imagination. So Tanzania came from the stage of its development where the government dictated or determined the dressing code of common men to the the stage where the individual and his/her freedom was an entitlement. The story goes that Tanzanians did everything in their power to catch up with capitalism. My classmate from Dar-as if to emphasize the new vision of his country nicknamed himself Capitalist, the other "American" and another one Washington.
The beautiful and large coastal city of Tanzania became a hotbed of many enterprises like a thriving commercial market for body parts of albinos-believed to be helpful in complimenting ARVs-and new lifestyles like homosexuals'. When the new generation of urban commercial pop music became available on ordinary computers, many in Dar became pop artists and the Tanzanian music industry expanded taking up all the traits of American pop star culture like bling bling, bar fights, pseudo rivalries and a couple of anecdotes of women's thighs bursts and painted faces.
You may wonder where this Dar drama is heading, i'll save you. Last weekend as the city celebrated the arrival of 2009 at KBC, a popular and enduring feature of Kigali's night life was one of such venues that were set to host the joyous Kigali's partying people. The club was parked to capacity, the music was not the kind to write home about but the crowd was extremely lively. There's no amount of words to describe the magnitude and quality of beautiful women that were attending call that night. Everyone seemed happy-or made a successful impression of being so.
A certain man believed to be in his 30s whom you can safely refer to as Kavukire took a seat on one of the open Bingalos in KBC with a clear view of the dance-floor. He unzipped his trousers and openly began masturbating, he stroked his penis according to the rhythm and pace of the music and kept at this ordeal for over four hours. He seemed not to mind even when one patron took his photograph. Finally Kavukire stood up zipped up and walked towards the dance-floor. His story somehow got to the ears of the aforementioned Tanzanians who were quick to opine between themselves about the issue. As usual Kigali Notes correspondent Big Ben Tumbo got some of the Tanzanian deliberations.
Capitalist: Huh, Kavukire came, he saw and he conquered!
American: What do you mean? Oh, i get it. He imagined himself making love to the beautiful ladies that were on the dance floor?
Washington: Uhhmm! These Rwandans, that kind of stuff did not come from the EAC. They are learning too much too quick. If Kigali men are busy masturbating in public who then is taking care of the beautiful women that country is reputed to have in large numbers?
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