{"id":10792,"date":"2025-10-01T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/?p=10792"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:35:04","slug":"the-senate-begins-meetings-with-elected-officials-and-local-administrators-to-discuss-about-decentralization-and-other-public-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/the-senate-begins-meetings-with-elected-officials-and-local-administrators-to-discuss-about-decentralization-and-other-public-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Senate begins meetings with elected officials and local administrators to discuss about decentralization and other public concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senat.bi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251001-WA0133.jpg\" width=\"383\" height=\"255\" \/>On Wednesday, October 1, 2025, the Senate began discussions with elected officials and local administrators from all communes. These discussions focused on the Senate&#8217;s oversight of local authorities and decentralization policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\">Accompanied by the Governor of Bujumbura Province, the Speaker of the Senate, the Right Honourable Gervais NDIRAKOBUCA, met with communal councillors and department heads of Cibitoke Commune, where he highlighted some of the population&#8217;s concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\">As for the two Deputy Speakers of the Senate, Honourable G\u00e9n\u00e9rose NGENDANGANYA and Clotilde KAMPIMBARE, they met with elected officials from Gitega commune and province, as well as those from Rutana commune in Burunga province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\">These meetings were also an opportunity for them to listen to the population&#8217;s grievances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\">The other communes where such meetings took place were Ngozi, Mukaza, Musongati, and Gisagara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\">The discussions were led by senators, who also listened to the grievances expressed by these communal councillors and department heads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.senat.bi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/499A0007-scaled.jpg\" width=\"335\" height=\"248\" \/>On the sidelines of his visit in Cibitoke commune, the Speaker of the Senate distributed notebooks to 150 schoolchildren from ECOFO Karurama I, Karurama II, and Mukingiro.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 1, 2025, the Senate began discussions with elected officials and local administrators from all communes. These discussions focused on the Senate&#8217;s oversight of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10797,"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions\/10797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/senat.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}