Mérard Mpabwanamaguru has been elected as the vice mayor in charge of urbanization and infrastructure in the City of Kigali.
He replaces Ernest Nsabimana who was late last year appointed as the Director-General of RURA in December last year.
Mpabwanamaguru has been working as a lecturer in Urban Planning and Design- GIS and Remote Sensing at the University of Lay Adventists of Kigali (UNILAK).
He studied at Atlantic International University (AIU) in the United States.
He has previously worked at the City of Kigali where he headed urban planning until 2017.
Mpabwanamaguru is among the City of Kigali councilors who were recently appointed in a cabinet meeting chaired by President Paul Kagame and were sworn in on Friday- August 6- by the president of the High court- Xavier Ndahayo.
The swearing-in ceremony was followed by electing the Vice Mayor to replace Nsabimana.
