{"id":7753,"date":"2018-01-23T08:53:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T08:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=7753"},"modified":"2018-01-23T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:34:08","slug":"bujumbura-small-denomination-banknotes-to-provoke-quarrel-between-bus-drivers-and-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/bujumbura-small-denomination-banknotes-to-provoke-quarrel-between-bus-drivers-and-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bujumbura: Small denomination banknotes to provoke quarrel between bus drivers and passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the rise in fuel prices at gas stations, bus fare in Bujumbura town and in the countryside has increased. The price of transport in Bujumbura neighbourhoods has increased from BIF 350 to BIF 380. The lack of BIF 10 and 20 bills causes problems.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7747\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7747\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7747\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/piece-de-10-bif-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Downtown bus station for Bujumbura northern direction\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/piece-de-10-bif-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/piece-de-10-bif-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/piece-de-10-bif.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown bus station for Bujumbura northern direction<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Drivers met in town complain about the scarcity of small denomination notes. Due to the lack of BIF 10 and 20 bills, they charge BIF 400 per passenger and this provokes quarrels between passengers and bus drivers. &#8220;Our work has become a daily quarrel\u201d, says a driver met at the bus station downtown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome passengers want to continue to pay BIF 350 arguing that they can\u2019t pay BIF 400. It is hard to avoid quarrel without losing\u201d, said a conductor met downtown adding that it\u2019s all due to the lack of small denomination banknotes.<\/p>\n<p>Some drivers call on the government to increase bus fare to BIF 400 arguing that this would solve the problem as low-value bills aren\u2019t currently on the market. They also say the rise in fuel price is higher.<\/p>\n<p>As for passengers, they complain saying that conductors should try their best to make those lacking banknotes available for exchange and respect the price set by the government. \u201cI cannot pay a sum higher than the one fixed by the government\u201d, says Anicet, a citizen met at the north bus station in Bujumbura city centre.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary general of the Association of Burundian Drivers (ATRABU), Charles Ntirampeba, asks drivers to respect the price fixed by the government and requests them to go and search for small-denomination banknotes in the central bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the rise in fuel prices at gas stations, bus fare in Bujumbura town and in the countryside has increased. The price of transport in Bujumbura neighbourhoods has increased from BIF 350 to BIF 380. The lack of BIF 10 and 20 bills causes problems. Drivers met in town complain about the scarcity of small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[33,1320],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7754,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions\/7754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}