EASTERN REGION - Bugesera District Advisory Committee has suspended the mayor for one month as a disciplinary action for failure to hold his staff accountable to a recent financial scam involving shoddy construction of classroom blocs.

In a closed door meeting held on Saturday, the advisory committee sent Gaspard Musonera and his deputy in charge of Social Affairs on a one month forced leave as investigations into 76 million loss continue. 

The money was meant to build some new classroom blocs and rehabilitate others that are a poor state.

The council expelled the Executive Secretary, Munyaburanga Edward currently in detention.

"The Mayor and the Vice Mayor displayed great inefficiency that caused the government to lose millions of Rwandan Francs.

Yet t was their duty to make sure that the money is used properly,” Claver Kabera, the Chairman District Advisory Committee remarked.
The same meeting exonerated the director of finance, Mugabo Faustin, currently under police custody and the Cassien Kasire, director of infrastructure who was recently released on bail of any wrong doing.

However, some officials in the district were not happy with a one month suspension handed to the top district officials.

"They deserve more than a mere suspension. One month suspension after causing government 76 million loss, is not a serious punishment. We hope the laws will go further to take the corrupt officials where they belong,” said one official who never wanted his names to be revealed.

The Council has had to conduct a series of extraordinary meetings, to unveil the culprits behind the mismanagement millions of francs meant to build new schools.

Bugesera is one of the districts in Rwanda where a significant number of children study under trees.

Bugesera corruption and financial scandal, comes few days after the Ombudsman’s report, revealed weaknesses in internal tendering procedures in several government institutions.

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