Gasabo District to finally hand-over plots to Civil Servants

KIGALI - CIVIL servants who had applied for plots in Gasabo District in 2006 will finally get their plots next week, Gasabo Mayor Willy Ndizeye has said. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Ndizeye said that the district has been demarcating plots to be given to the first batch of civil servants next week. Several letters of complaints, including one petitioning the President’s intervention had been written to former Mayor, Claudine Nyinawagaga. “The District is committed to solving all problems regarding this issue,” Ndizeye said. Previously, over 300 civil servants from 15 public institutions had threatened to take court action against the district for the failure to settle the dispute. “Some of us have spent over five years waiting for these plots which we fully paid for,” said Alain Bernard Mukurarinda, the head of the civil servants adhoc committee set up to follow up the matter. According to an agreement with the district, the civil servants were supposed to pay between Rwf 1.5m and Rwf 2.5m for the plots. All in all, the civil servants had paid over Rwf 440 million. Many of them claim to have acquired loans in order to buy the plots and the banks were breathing down their necks. “The district had repeatedly promised to give us plots but never delivered,” Mukuralinda revealed. He added that the adhoc committee recently met with the new Mayor and discussed the way forward. Ends