CIBITOKE, November 7th (ABP) – The First Vice-President of the Burundian Senate, Hon. Denise Ndadaye joined the inhabitants of Mparambo II hill, in Rugombo commune, Cibitoke province, in community development work on Saturday, November 2, 2024. The day’s activity involved unblocking the gutters around Rugombo’s modern market.
After the work, the First Vice-President of the Senate praised the large number of women taking part in that sanitation activity. She encouraged them to move forward and serve as a model for others, and to align themselves with the “zero waste in cities” program initiated by the First Lady, Mrs. Angeline Ndayishimiye.
She called on the population of Rugombo in general, and women in particular, to adhere to family planning. To have children who are healthy, easy to send to school, and who will become leaders applied to the national vision 2040-2060.
Honorable Ndadaye asked the local administration, supported by the Rugombo community, to take a census of street children, to find out who their families are, and to solve the problem of those who have no family, with the help of the Ministry in charge of solidarity.
To combat the soaring prices of basic necessities, she urged the population to love work, and to take up farming and livestock breeding, in order to find enough to eat and sell on the market.
As for the Chef de Cabinet of the Governor of Cibitoke province, Anicet Saïdi, he appreciated how the high authorities stay close to the population of Cibitoke, in the community work every Saturday. He called on the people of the province to keep their homes clean.
He congratulated the population of Cibitoke province for having responded massively to voter registration at a rate of 118%, and encouraged them to continue at the same pace throughout the electoral process.