Mukabaramba kicks off campaign

RWAMAGANA - The Presidential candidate for the Party of Peace and Concord (PPC), Alvera Mukabaramba, yesterday, promised to offer free education from kindergarten to high school and improve the health insurance scheme, once she wins the presidential election due for August 9. Mukabaramba is the only female candidate in the four-person run. Addressing hundreds of cheering party supporters at her first rally in Kibaba village, Rubona Sector, Rwamagana District, Mukabaramba, talked of the need to merge local health insurance scheme known as Mutuelle de Santé, with others like RAMA, ‘for the benefit of the lower class people.’ “Free education should start from the lowest level…giving it from primary to senior three is not enough. Similarly, for you people to benefit from the existing health insurances, we need to harmonise the little money you pay with that of the middle class. PPC will do this, once in power,” she said. Mukabaramba hinted at the need to create a system that caters for the unemployed, promising that her party would create a separate ministry to cater for people’s welfare.MP Thierry Karemera, one of the party leaders, said they were sure of sailing through the election. “We are mature enough and ready for the seat…we have all it takes to lead the country, and there is no doubt that our candidate will lead us to success,” he told a cheering crowd. Jean d’amour Habineza, a party supporter in the village, said that the party’s concern for the development of the rural people is attractive, adding that the party’s manifesto is good enough to attract many supporters across the country. “PPC has come with a very good programme that caters for the common man, so as the campaign continues, I expect many people to back our candidate,” he told The New Times. Ends

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Mukabaramba kicks off campaign