Residents of Kiramurizi sector in Gatsibo district have been advised to embrace land consolidation programme to maximise crop production.Senate vice-president Jeanne d’Arc Gakuba gave the advice while addressing the residents after community work (Umuganda) at the weekend.“You are blessed with fertile land and reasonable rainfall. It is, thus, upon you to make money in agricultural production. The level of crop production we see here doesn’t reflect your potential,” she said.The senator, who also participated in the rehabilitation of five houses of Genocide widows, said widows should be helped to keep at par with the country’s development.“Widows need community help. I commend the work you have done in rehabilitating these houses. It is our moral obligation to help the vulnerable among us make ends meet by providing them with basic needs like shelter,” Gakuba said.The community work was also attended by Inyange industries staff, who donated cows and other materials to the widows.Ambrose Ruboneza, the Gatsibo mayor, said sheltering the widows was among the priorities of the district. He, however, said there was need to protect basic infrastructure in the district.“We are talking of houses that were almost collapsing, but a house gets old slowly, and people shouldn’t wait until it is about to collapse to rehabilitate it. The same applies to our roads and bridges,” Ruboneza said
