CIBITOKE February 15th (ABP) – The President of the Republic of Burundi, Evariste Ndayishimiye, visited on Monday, February 13, a repatriated citizen, resident of Mugimbu village, Murwi commune, in Cibitoke province, a check on the site by ABP has revealed.
The person in question is Dr. Jackson Nahayo who, alongside his services in his clinic located in Buganda commune, has been practicing farming for three years, on his native hill of Mugimbu.
The Head of State, who has made agriculture a priority for development, visited Dr. Nahayo, a Burundian-Canadian citizen, who has chosen to come and invest in his country of origin and in his native village, to become a farmer.
During a news conference under the banana plantation, with the doctor-producer, and his companion Prosper Nsengiyumva, an expert in greenhouse cultivation techniques in Canada and repatriated with his wife, President Ndayishimiye called on Burundians living abroad to return home to invest at home, like Dr. Nahayo.
The Head of State specified that all the countries which have become great powers have achieved this through agriculture. He said that many Burundians like to work, and can do it because opportunities, which are not in other countries, do exist in Burundi, including the possibility of cultivating all year round, fertile land, and sufficient water.
However, President Ndayishimiye takes issue with the lazy people, the civil servants and the managers who demand higher salaries, but who delay the procedures of investors from outside. He did not forget to wink at the Burundians for the good management of their income and productions. He told the participants that those who eat without working are thieves.
For Dr. Nahayo, there is no more security among whites than in Burundi as many believed, but also life is more expensive in Europe and Canada. According to him, you have to go and study in Europe or Canada, and afterwards, to come and invest in Burundi. He pleaded for support in machinery, in favor of a road to completely open up the Mugimbu village.
As for Mr. Nsengiyumva, many Burundian refugees, who live in those countries of the whites, are satisfied only with the aid, known as social assistance. He invited Burundians to work in associations, and to adopt the greenhouse cultivation technique.
Note that the Head of State, during that trip, visited the fields, livestock and fish pond of producer Nahayo and wrote in the guestbook.