{"id":15860,"date":"2020-04-24T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15860"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:34:11","slug":"party-leaders-urged-to-use-insured-vehicles-in-electoral-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/party-leaders-urged-to-use-insured-vehicles-in-electoral-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Party leaders urged to use insured vehicles in electoral campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agathon Rwasa, CNL Chairman and presidential candidate for the 2020 elections is concerned over the insurance issue in the electoral campaign. \u201cPolitical parties have to use trucks in the electoral campaign. However, the traffic police have only accepted to grant an authorization for one truck and each commune couldn\u2019t ask for such authorization,\u201d complained Rwasa in a meeting organized by the Home Affairs Ministry in Gitega province, this 23 April. He said the Ministry should plead for an easy access to have this authorization. \u201cThe police should talk with insurance companies to allow that access,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15861\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15861\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Diane-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Diane-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Diane-2-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Diane-2-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Diane-2-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Fuso-branded truck carrying passengers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>T\u00e9rence Mbonabuca, Director of Patriotism Department in the Ministry of Home Affairs says trucks are used to carry materials rather than passengers although its use is exceptional in electoral period. \u201cInsurance companies should agree upon the use of trucks with the traffic police to handle the issue,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>As for Emile Manisha, commissioner of judicial police representing the Security Ministry in a meeting with political leaders and candidates for the upcoming elections organized by the electoral body, this April 21, the traffic police won\u2019t tolerate uninsured vehicles. \u201cThese \u201cFuso-branded\u201d vehicles must be insured with a limited number of passengers when used in propaganda activities\u201d, he said adding that they must pay for insurance to avoid any problem with the police who are there to enforce the law.<\/p>\n<p>Tatien Sibomana, Executive Secretary of the Association of Insurers of Burundi-ASSUR says these vehicles are not for personal use. \u201cThey are 100% exposed\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agathon Rwasa, CNL Chairman and presidential candidate for the 2020 elections is concerned over the insurance issue in the electoral campaign. \u201cPolitical parties have to use trucks in the electoral campaign. However, the traffic police have only accepted to grant an authorization for one truck and each commune couldn\u2019t ask for such authorization,\u201d complained Rwasa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15862,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860\/revisions\/15862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}