{"id":13492,"date":"2019-08-20T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=13492"},"modified":"2019-08-20T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:01:52","slug":"cnl-party-offices-vandalized-in-kanyosha-neighborhood-in-bujumbura-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/cnl-party-offices-vandalized-in-kanyosha-neighborhood-in-bujumbura-city\/","title":{"rendered":"CNL party offices vandalized in Kanyosha neighborhood in Bujumbura city"},"content":{"rendered":"

On August 17th, some offices of the National Congress for Freedom-CNL were vandalized by unknown people in Kanyosha neighborhood of Muha commune in the south of Bujumbura. The administration denies the existence of CNL offices in the locality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A CNL party office was destroyed in Musama locality of Kanyosha zone in Bujumbura city<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe were preparing to inaugurate nine offices in Kanyosha area in Muha commune on Saturday when a group of people disturbed our activities,\u201d says T\u00e9rence Manirambona, Spokesperson for the National Congress for Freedom-CNL party.<\/p>\n

The party members were beaten, its office in Musama locality was destroyed and some other offices were vandalized on the same day, he adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to suspend the official inauguration of those offices in Kanyosha neighborhood to avoid further clashes,\u201d says Mr. Manirambona.<\/p>\n

He deplores the violation of the law governing political parties in Burundi. He says they had informed the local administration about their activities.<\/p>\n

For him, any political party has the right to establish offices in any locality.
\nHe calls on CNL party members to avoid clashes with members of other political parties.
\n\u201cThe CNL party office was destroyed on Saturday night. We spent the night here to guard it since it could be officially opened on Sunday,\u201d says Gaspard Manirakiza, a resident of Musama locality in Kanyosha zone. He is also the owner of the destroyed house.
\nHe says the office was destroyed by a group of more than 40 people at the head of which were some leaders of the area.<\/p>\n

Mr. Manirakiza says the group of criminals came with pickaxes and machetes. \u201cThey started beating us while others were destroying the house,\u201d he says, showing wounds on his head.
\nHe says justice should identify those criminals so they can be punished and compensate the victims.
\n\u201cWe need peace in our locality. We don\u2019t need war anymore. Enough is enough,\u201d says a resident from Busoro locality of Kanyosha neighborhood where another CNL party office was vandalized.
\nAs for Pasteur Daniel Kabura, Administrator of Muha commune, he says there are no officially known CNL offices in that commune.<\/p>\n

He also says that CNL officials had not informed the local administration that they were going to open offices in Kanyosha zone.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs CNL is a new political party, its leaders should inform the administration whenever they want to open an office so we make sure there is no other party\u2019s office in the same place,\u201d he says.
\nFor him, no person is allowed to destroy a house belonging to other people. Every criminal must appear before the court and has to be punished according to the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll political parties have the right to conduct their political activities in the country,\u201d says Mr. Kabura adding that activities of political parties should respect the law and promote peace.
\nIt\u2019s not the first time that CNL offices are vandalized and its members beaten. On June 15th, the office of CNL party established in Nyabiraba commune of Bujumbura province was set ablaze and destroyed.<\/p>\n

On July 15th, clashes erupted between Imbonerakure (youth of CNDD FDD party) and Inyankamugayo (Members of CNL party) in Gashikanwa and Kiremba communes of Ngozi province in the north of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 17th, some offices of the National Congress for Freedom-CNL were vandalized by unknown people in Kanyosha neighborhood of Muha commune in the south of Bujumbura. The administration denies the existence of CNL offices in the locality. \u201cWe were preparing to inaugurate nine offices in Kanyosha area in Muha commune on Saturday when a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":13491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,20,670],"tags":[108,749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13493,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13492\/revisions\/13493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}