Huge turn up for local gov’t elections

KIGALI - Huge crowds massed Saturday morning in all parts of the country to elect their village representatives on the Cell Executive Committees. The elections which were conducted in all villages around the country also involved voting for women representatives in cell and sector committees which makes the 30 percent women representation as required by the law. Jean Claude Musonera, the presiding officer at Rukiri 2 cell polling station in Remera shortly after the exercise, told the Sunday Times that the elections were smooth and that people turned up in big numbers. “People turned up in big numbers and they expressed a lot of enthusiasm throughout the process,” Musonera said.