Christine Bakundufite

Christine Bakundufite (born September 29, 1970), is a Rwandan politician and economist. She currently serves as a member of the Parliament of Rwanda's Chamber of Deputies for Gatsibo District in Eastern Province.

Quotes

• The cost of chia seeds is prohibitive for some farmers, suggesting that there should be a way to increase their production in order to lower its prices.
  • Christine Bakundufite said that farmers expressed that the cost of chia seeds (All Africa, 20 April 2022)
• The more you delay in using it, the more you increase the loss.
  • Bakundufite said. (ktpress.rw, September 05, 2022 )
• after eight years, it will be hard to recover the value of the investment in BBR, and considering the unused equipment, there is more than Rwf600 million in loss and stated that the same could happen with the college project.
  • Christine Bakundufite said that (ktpress.rw, September 21, 2022)
• How can you pay contractors such a percentage when the work which was supposed to be done is lacking?
  • University Of Rwanda Put On Spot Over Health Insurance, Performance. KTPress. (September 2021)
• With no storage, no back up, that means that if anything happens the system stops and so does the work.
• There are four companies that were blacklisted but the system didn’t show their status thus protecting them, meaning they equally bid for tenders. Why?
• This system begun working in 2016-2017 and I personally don’t see why you say that it is new. It is even possible that similar or worse errors have been committed before those seen by the auditor general.
  • https://www.ktpress.rw/2021/09/e-procurement-data-susceptible-to-loss-pac/ ( KT Press, September 28, 2021)
• there is no value for money and demanded an explanation why the staff were not trained in the first case.
  • https://www.ktpress.rw/2023/10/rwanda-cooperative-agency-in-spotlight-again-over-failed-tech-system/( KT Press, October 12, 2023)
• We want to know why, don’t tell us sorry, because this is not why we are here.
  • https://www.ktpress.rw/2023/09/city-of-kigali-accused-of-abusing-tender-laws/( KT Press, September 16, 2023)
• How long does it take to ask for permission to conduct an emergency tender and how can you fail to give a report to the procurement authority even if the tender was an emergent one?
  • https://www.ktpress.rw/2020/10/karongi-district-borrowing-projects-from-neighboring-districts-pac/ ( KT Press, October 3, 2020 )
• why the district is not in position to manage its property by collecting rent from the broadcaster and use it to maintain the structure.
  • https://www.ktpress.rw/2020/10/musanze-district-wants-national-broadcaster-rba-to-pay-rent-or-leave/ ( KT Press, October 2, 2020 )
• These are government funds that you are throwing out there without any explanation.
  • https://www.ktpress.rw/2023/09/rwanda-roads-maintenance-fund-pinned-over-funds-mismanagement/ ( KT Press , September 8, 2023 )
• With no storage, no back up, that means that if anything happens the system stops and so does the work .
• 13 tenders worth Rwf31billion were processed in the e-procurement system using a closed bidding window, meaning that other bidders were not able to access or knows anything about the tenders.
• the new e-procurement system has gaps in data recovery (retrieving), no spread out backup and information.
• There are four companies that were blacklisted but the system didn’t show their status thus protecting them, meaning they equally bid for tenders. Why?
  • https://www.ktpress.rw/2021/09/e-procurement-data-susceptible-to-loss-pac/ (KT Press , September 28, 2021 )