The natives of Bujumbura province invited to turn challenges into business opportunities

On Friday December 10, 2021, at Miami Beach, in Bujumbura Town Hall, Right Honorable Emmanuel Sinzohagera, Speaker of the Senate, met the natives of Bujumbura province to discuss the inventory of fixtures of the economic life of that administrative entity. Participants in that meeting raised concerns such as overcrowded classrooms, many school dropouts, unwanted pregnancies in schools, lack of textbooks and malnutrition for children under 5 years.

Right Honorable Sinzohagera, in his remarks, indicated that the development of that province is in the hands of the natives and invited everyone to give their contribution. He also called on them to combine efforts to achieve sustainable development.

The Senate Speaker also advised the natives of Bujumbura province to create associations on their native villages. He asked them to turn challenges into business opportunities. By way of example, Right Honorable Sinzohagera wished that seed centers be set up in order to cope with the lack of selected seeds and the construction of pharmacies would make it possible to get a stock of drugs.

In addition, the Speaker of the Senate asked them to contribute to the purchase of books and invited the administrators to be rigorous in terms of public sanitation. Right Honorable Sinzohagera called on the villages’ chiefs to monitor the regularity of teachers at service and report to the communal administrator.

He ended his remarks by hoping for the creation of the communal civil service in order to remunerate teachers and that would allow to properly control them.