Focus Media (Kigali)
Shyaka Kanuma
10 January 2009
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Not surprisingly TVR staff held a meeting during which they voiced their displeasure and put in place a committee to voice demands about their pay. A TVR employee told us that when they asked Kije about their never-coming salaries the woman said she had no idea what the problem was.
What some find truly infantile in this response is that prior to the meeting, someone had posted a notice on a wall in the TVR premises to the effect the meeting would take place, the date and the place.
What other Orinfor managers find interesting is that it was immediately after the TVR employee meeting that she wrote her letter to Mushikiwabo.
Whose information minister do we have?
Again we ask, what is the deal between Mushikiwabo and Kije?
Why is it that after the managers grilled Kije on her behavior and she claimed that it was Davina Mirenge and Frank Mugambage who advised her to write and circulate negative letters behind Oscar's back, she then went and spent about two hours in a private meeting with the information minister?
Strangely Mushikiwabo never finds time for other members of the press-not even to answer a simple phone call (for this article for instance we gave up after trying to get in touch with her six or seven times). But she spends many hours with Kije. Which makes us ask, in what way is she constructively using all that time she spends with the head of TVR?
Recently Minister Mushikiwabo found the time to insist that TVR be moved to a new building in Kiyovu but did not find the time to consult with a single technician whether the place would be suitable to install studios in. It isn't, and an Orinfor TV technician said so.
The man said the ceilings of the building are too low and the heat TV equipment generates would find no place to escape, causing irreparable damage to it. Mushikiwabo almost sacked the fellow.
Other people however insisted the opinion of more technicians be sought and one was flown in from Sweden. The man took one look in the proposed new TVR quarters and said forget it. He told them exactly what the Orinfor technician advised earlier. This place will only damage equipment and nothing will work.
Now TVR is going to the office building housing the OBK offices at Kacyiru.
Having reported on the shenanigans of Kije Mugisha before, we can see her influence in Mushikiwabo's cockamamie suggestion of where to move TVR. Kije is the person who, along with former Orinfor board chairman Alfred Ndahiro, was insisting that the printing press now about to be installed in Gikondo should be installed in the old Tender Board building in town-as unsuitable a place as you can find.
Is that how these ladies use most of their time, plotting and conniving and coming up with half baked ideas of what to do with public property?
It looks so.
Meantime Orinfor services to the public will only go on deteriorating-that is unless the appointing authorities do something quickly and urgently.
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