Gasabo District court judge, Dative Yankurije has ruled non-eviction of Hotel Tech management in the premises the Remera sector was ordering them to leave.
Last week the Hotel Tech management had been served with a notice of ten days to vacate the premises even though the case had been in court pending the final ruling.
In her ruling, Yakurije ordered the owner of Hotel Tech Pascal Ndahiro to remain in his premises registered under plot number 3315.
She also ordered Gastabo District management to pay court fees amounting Rwf 8,200.
The mayor of Gatsabo Willy Ndizeye noted that he can’t object the court ruling.
“Public auction will follow and the money worth his investment will be put on an account provided by the commercial court and then he will be refunded his investment,” The Mayor added.
Hotel Tech property is currently attached as collateral in a Gacaca case waiting to be publicly auctioned and the returns from which shall be used to compensate 1994 genocide survivors whose loved ones were killed in the same area.
However, Pascal Ndahiro the proprietor of the Hotel Tech business said that the ultimatum forcing him out was illegal. He claims he has been given 10 days yet the matter is still in the court.
“I have no problem vacating the place. However, the issue the authorities are ignoring is the investment put in and little time they are giving as if I am a criminal, I’m demanding Rwf 76 million I used in renovation of this hotel,” Ndahiro decried.
“How do you close this business in just 2 days? Imagine they notified me on 13th requesting me to quit on 15th ,” Ndahiro added.
There is another controversy that the Obudsman’s office has halted public auctioning of the premises for seven times as alleged by the two plaintiffs Alexandre Harerimana and Cécile Mukaruzamba in the Gacaca courts.
Even though the official Seraphin Ntagwabira Rumaziminsi from the Ombudsman’s office dispute the times they have halted the process, he says the plaintiffs want to be the only ones benefiting yet there are several other survivors of the 1994 Genocide supposed to benefit.
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