Nyabihu- A district being grown from scratch

Nyabihu local leaders debating about the new master plan

Nyabihu district is one of districts that make up Rwanda’s Eastern province however it has been left our developmental wise.

Despite having poorly built district headquarters, it has neither a hotel industry nor even a public cemetery.

Nyabihu is a land well known for nice Irish potatoes, beans, and maize, wheat and tea harvests.

Nyabihu Vice-Mayor in charge of social affairs Alexander Sahunkuye said that before the approval of the district’s master plan, residents will be using provisional public services that have been put in several sectors.

“Meanwhile no one is allowed to build any form of a house in the area that has been mapped for the new district’s town unless they have approval by the district’s architects.” Adds the Vice-Mayor

Rwanda as a nation does not only face challenges of poverty and illiteracy like other developing countries but also challenges of the former government’s divisive politics.

The country’s government of before the year 1994 would say choose to develop one town leaving out the others, just like they would favor one tribe and kill the other. A case in point being Nyanza and Bugesera districts which were left undeveloped.

Current government’s emphasis has been on laying strategies of overall country development especially on to grass root levels, the reason districts like Nyabihu are to take off.