{"id":9420,"date":"2018-07-11T06:43:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T06:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2018-07-16T08:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T08:08:23","slug":"employees-union-denounces-fivefold-contribution-to-2020-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/employees-union-denounces-fivefold-contribution-to-2020-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees\u2019 union denounces fivefold contribution to 2020 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Bukuru, executive secretary of Burundi confederation of unions-COSYBU says it is not understandable that a civil servant will contribute to 2020 elections for several times. She says civil servants give contributions to the 2020 elections through their monthly salary. \u201cThe deduction is made when we receive our salary,\u201d she says adding that civil servants also give their contributions in the institutions for which they work.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7293\" style=\"width: 472px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7293\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marie-Bukuru-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Marie Bukuru: \u201cWe are obliged to contribute to 2020 elections several times\u201d\" width=\"462\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marie-Bukuru-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marie-Bukuru-600x441.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Marie-Bukuru.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marie Bukuru: \u201cWe are obliged to contribute to 2020 elections several times\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mrs. Bukuru says civil servants will now be obliged to contribute in their households. \u201cEach household will contribute an amount of BIF 2000 per year\u201d, she says. Unemployed people including pupils and students eligible to vote in 2020 are also concerned about the contribution. \u201cWe will also contribute an amount of BIF 1000 for each child eligible to vote,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>The executive secretary of the confederation also says civil servants will also contribute for their parents in the countryside. \u201cThey don\u2019t work, where will they find this amount? The same civil servants who will contribute in their place,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Bukuru says Burundi government imposed such measures while it had suspended all kinds of bonus on civil servants\u2019 salary on the basis of performance. \u201cCivil servants work and live in dire conditions. The decision comes to worsen their living conditions,\u201d she says adding that the confederation had pleaded for the suspension of the measure for several times in vain. \u201cThere should first be a consensus before any decision is taken. Moreover, we will contribute for two years,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>COSYBU exhorts Burundi government to let them contribute once. \u201cOtherwise, it will be a forced contribution,\u201d she says. T\u00e9rence Ntahiraja, Assistant to the Ministry of Home Affairs has said the contribution concerns all households and unemployed people eligible to vote in 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<p>About 2.15 million households, more than 460 thousand pupils and over 480 thousand students will pay the contribution to the 2020 elections. About BIF 5 billion will be collected in households per year. The necessary amount for the 2020 elections is estimated at BIF 70 billion. On 31 May, civil servants and other categories including natural and legal persons had already contributed up to BIF 17 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Bukuru, executive secretary of Burundi confederation of unions-COSYBU says it is not understandable that a civil servant will contribute to 2020 elections for several times. She says civil servants give contributions to the 2020 elections through their monthly salary. \u201cThe deduction is made when we receive our salary,\u201d she says adding that civil servants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[1177,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420"}],"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=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9424,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions\/9424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}