{"id":21709,"date":"2022-07-08T15:43:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/clean-and-orderly-yes-but-crying-out-for-beefing-up"},"modified":"2022-07-08T15:57:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T15:57:18","slug":"clean-and-orderly-yes-but-crying-out-for-beefing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/clean-and-orderly-yes-but-crying-out-for-beefing-up","title":{"rendered":"Clean and orderly, yes, but crying out for beefing up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>The Kigali master plan has got another shot in the arm, says The New Times of last Tuesday. It\u2019s well and good. The title: \u201cKigali City banks on \u2018rehousing model\u2019 to reduce unplanned settlements\u201d. If the action honours the letter, clean and orderly Kigali will be global tops.<\/p>\n

There is no reason it shouldn\u2019t, if we believe the implementers. The article quotes city officials thus: \u201cThere is need for different housing models and schemes to have\u2026Kigali\u2019s residents in planned settlements. One of the strategies to reduce unplanned settlements is the use of a \u2018rehousing model.\u201d<\/p>\n

These models, if there are more than this \u2018rehousing model\u2019, have been long in coming. Because, if all the promises are fulfilled, they can see Kigali truly live to its earned title of being one of the world\u2019s cleanest and most orderly.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, there\u2019ll always be cynics who\u2019ll never cease to throw barbs at how Kigali presents \u201conly its face\u201d, meaning the main streets for beauty and order but covering up near-unseemly backstreets.<\/p>\n

Those cynics have been to those backstreets and found them orderly, of course, but cynics are cynics. The fact alone that those backstreets are not so prim and pretty as the main streets will provide them with fodder to feed their cynicism.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the reason city officials should work on removing unplanned settlements pronto. This is not to say they should work for hecklers, no, but that hecklers\u2019 cynicism should not be the bitter truth that city residents are living uncomfortably.<\/p>\n

Because as Rwandans, we know that Rwanda is a work in progress and so is Kigali. And there is nothing to be ashamed of: the adage that \u201cRome was not built in a day\u201d is an old and time-tested one. So, much as Kigali is among the world\u2019s cleanest and most orderly, it\u2019s not at its apex. Among the reasons is its unplanned settlements in some areas.<\/p>\n

Yet, paradoxically, Rwanda, not Kigali alone, has proved that time-tested adage wrong, when you seriously think about it! Because in the life of a country, and considering the deep feculence (Americans\u2019d use a four-letter word!) she was in, what\u2019s 28 years, if not one day in a person\u2019s life?<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s confine ourselves to Kigali and to \u2018cleaner\u2019 times, if the times I refer to can be called that.<\/p>\n

Just after 1994, which part of Kigali can you say had any planned settlement? Personally, I can think of Kiyovu for the \u201crich\u201d (a misnomer, if ever there was one!) and perhaps Kimihurura (\u201cvillage for then-government ministers\u201d), then upper Nyamirambo for then-government officials.<\/p>\n

The rest were those high-risk zone \u201cnests\u201d and everywhere else only grassland all around. Talking about the \u201cnests\u201d as risky human habitat of the time, the friend who coined the term must be laughing himself into stitches when, up in the volcanoes, he sees the ultra-luxury lodge, Bisate!<\/p>\n

That, however, is for the birds, pardon the pun. We were talking about what\u2019s in store for Kigali residents. The basket of goodies will include: being saved from high-risk disasters; getting proper and organised infrastructure; a protected environment; green places with trees; resilience against climate change effects; saying bye to floods; more.<\/p>\n

Kigali residents, if all the above come to realisation, there are rosy times ahead! The residents will certainly be more than eager to participate.<\/p>\n

My anxiety is, are our city fathers\/mothers referring to all of Kigali settlements? The way I see it, they have in mind only the risky, poor and already settled areas. Even then, how seven families can turn their land plots into areas that can house twenty families escapes me (storeys?)!<\/p>\n

Anyway, the important thing is there will be improved access to roads, water, power supply, areas for green places, trees, proper waste management, health facilities, schools, markets, children\u2019s play squares and the like. Eng. Mpabwanamaguru, if your team pulls this off, your legs will have served you well!<\/p>\n

However, your team should not forget to rope in some places like the object of pokes known as \u201cAkajagari k\u2019abakire\u201d (rich man\u2019s slum!), aka Nyarutarama. Executive mansions with green all over, alright, but hardly any order. Here, our city mothers\/fathers must ensure all residential areas follow the good example of well-organised estates. Talking of which, in my personal opinion Kibabaga which houses many men\/women in uniform takes the trophy.<\/p>\n

Which is not to say there aren\u2019t many other well-organised settlements, far from it.<\/p>\n

The biggest concern, though, as everyone\u2019d agree, are settlements constructed by individuals that seem to follow no plan at all. In a 15-metre by 20-metre plot in an R4 zone that\u2019s supposed to settle four families in a 4-storey residence, why is it allowed that four single units are squeezed in, as if nobody supervises the constructors? Who is supposed to enforce respect for the master plan?<\/p>\n

Leave alone greening the area, those four families will hardly get sufficient air to breathe. Local authorities (in Districts and Sectors), are we together?<\/p>\n

But the elephant in the room for all: the central sewage system! With big ducts to carry all cables and stop this incessant digging up of finished and beautified surfaces.<\/p>\n

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