MURAMVYA, January 7th (ABP) – On Saturday January 4, 2024, the President of the Republic of Burundi, Evariste Ndayishimiye, joined the population of the predominantly rice-growing communes of Mbuye and Rutegama in the rehabilitation of a collapsed irrigation canal at the dam serving 110 hectares of the Mubarazi-Kaniga marshes.
That irrigation dam is being repaired as a matter of urgency, since it collapsed at the start of the rice transplanting and irrigation campaign.
The Head of State commended the commitment of the Governor of Muramvya province, who promised that the rehabilitation work would last just one week, to ensure that rice growers would be able to transplant and irrigate their fields easily.
He did not mince words, however, pointing the finger at the communal engineers who should act first and intervene before the canal collapses.
President Ndayishimiye then asked the leaders to change their behaviour, given that the salaries they receive come from the population’s taxes. They must therefore be clear-sighted, or else they will be removed from office.
The President of the Republic also led a moralizing session for the population present, inviting them to set themselves family development objectives, starting with personal hygiene and clothing.
The President of the Republic asked economic operators to make available hulling machines and rice storage sheds close to the field of action of the rice growers’ cooperative.
As you will know, in his moralizing, President Ndayishimiye placed particular emphasis on work linked to the protection of the environment by tracing contours, maintaining roads and planting agro-forestry trees to increase production.