Six senior local government officials in Musanze District, including four sector executive secretaries and two directors have resigned.
They include Adelaide Nyiramahoro who was executive secretary of Kimonyi Sector, Aloys Niyibizi who was executive secretary of Musanze Sector, Helene Mukasine who was the executive secretary of Muko sector and Télesphore Nsengiyumva who was executive secretary of Nyange sector.
Others include Emile Nsabiyera who was the district director of health and Joseph Muhutangabo who was the director of One Stop Centre.
The developments emerged on Monday afternoon after a closed-door meeting which lasted for three hours.
The meeting convened local officials in the district, including security officials.
The Musanze District Mayor, Jeannine Nuwumuremyi, confirmed the development, saying that the officials cited personal reasons in their respective letters of resignation.
"It is true those officials tendered in their resignation letters and we received the letters a while ago. Reading through all the letters one realises that the resignations are motivated by personal motives,” she noted.
Nuwumuremyi further disclosed that the officials had failed to fulfil their respective duties as they couldn’t cope with the pace at which the district intends to lift people out of poverty.
"Those officials mainly sector executive secretaries had failed to mobilize towards fostering hygiene and sanitation, a critical issue in our performance contracts. They had also failed to coordinate community security patrol (amarondo) among other initiatives meant to sustain security within communities,” she added.
Efforts to secure comments from the officials who resigned were futile.
Corruption
Some of the officials were previously cited in corruption scandals, mainly in staff recruitment and the execution of the Musanze City Master plan; the offences that led to the sacking of the former district mayor and his deputies September this year.
Others are being accused of offences that include assaulting their spouses as well as gross misconduct among others.
Nuwumuremyi said she was optimistic that Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) will thoroughly investigate the matter.