EASTERN PROVINCE

NGOMA — District leaders must reduce hours of rest and accord work more time; to contend with other districts in this year’s performance contracts.

Presenting an eleven-page district plan for this year, to Cell, Sector and district leaders, on Monday, Mayor Francois Niyotwagira said leaders should also know their responsibilities in order to complete what their offices entail them to do.

Other leaders from private institutions attended the meeting held at the district auditorium.

"In all ways we should make sure that the performance contract we signed with the president is fulfilled and where necessary we do other things which are deemed necessary," Niyotwagira said.

Planting of seven million coffee trees, growing 500 hectares of rice, 450 hectares of pineapples and reviving 2000 hectares of banana plantations are some of the things highlighted in this year’s performance contract which was signed recently in Kigali.

Other priority areas include, resettling 153 Genocide survivors’ families, building 100 houses for Rwandan returnees from Tanzania, building 28 school buildings, finishing Gacaca cases at all levels and forming unity and reconciliation clubs.

"We will not achieve all these if we don’t work hard," Niyotwagira said.

He added, "Let us reflect where we have come from, where we are and where we are heading, that’s when we will know that there is still a lot to do. The performance contract is not for any leader but for the people of Ngoma and Rwanda in general and we will not achieve vision 2020 if we work for only one hour a day."

The work would be decentralized to sector levels and all Sector executive secretaries and heads of all departments at the district are set to sign their 2008 performance contracts with the mayor on January 9.

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