Testimony of MUKAKABANO Daphane accompanied by AMI in the advocacy
With the support of 11.11.1, AMI continues to carry out advocacy work on cases of human rights violations, document them and develop their plans. During the year 2024, AMI made advocacy, visits to see and evaluate the effects and impacts of the advocacy actions of previous years.
It is in this context that the AMI has recorded a positive advocacy effect, as a success story. This is a case of a woman named MUKAKABANO Daphane, who had a problem with the inheritance of land possession. For four years, she traveled through different courts of Rwanda, but the problem could not be solved.
Last year in 2023 AMI organized a live radio talk show broadcasted on Radio Huye, in Huye District, Gishamvu Sector, Nyumba Cell. AMI invited local authorities and the population to discuss the problems of providing quality of services.
The population used this opportunity to ask questions and problems that had no solutions for several days. This is where MUKAKABANO Daphane posed his problem on his right of inheritance which was violated by his brother on the pretext that he is a boy and that girls did not have the right to inheritance of their parents' land possessions.
AMI accompanied MUKAKABABONO in the way of advocacy, she found her possessions and she was very happy and thanked AMI for having accompanied her, in the jurisdictional instances to be able to solve her problem.
AMI visited her home and recorded her a testimonial of satisfaction.Mutaganda Fabien and journalist, we made a trip from the district of Huye to the Ngoma Sector in the District of Nyaruguru, where MUKAKABANO DAPHANE lives. She sent her daughter, studied in senior three of Secondary, in order to show us the way to their home.
When she arrived at MUKAKABANO Daphane's house, she was obviously involved in the daily tasks, and she gave us the testimony filled with joy because she says that AMI did its best so that she could have her right of inheritance flouted for four years.
She said, My name is MUKAKABANO Daphane, mother of five children and one husband. I live in the Ngoma Sector, Kibangu Cell, Kirehe Village. Our family had a problem with the inheritance of land left by our parents. It is a problem of succession, but our big brother has shown a bad will. After my mother's death in 2020, we approached our older brother as brothers to have the right of inheritance of land that our mother left us. In reality it was a lot of possessions. »
He had land holdings in the Rusenge Sector, Nyaruguru District, other land in Huye, Gishamvu Sector, Nyumba Cell. After the jurisdiction, the mediators of the Sector allowed the donations to remain in the hands of all the children and that the remaining land be shared among the five children and we made the decision to go to court. Our problem as daughters, who were deprived of the right to inherit land from our parents by our brother, lasted 4 years in the process.»
AMI, helped me and told me that all children, boys and girls, are equal on their parents' inheritance rights, and that we must share according to the law. Our brother said that we do not have this right of inheritance. In reality I had sorrow in my heart because I couldn't find anything to eat while I had the right to his land and AMI accompanied me. Even though I spent a lot on transportation, I'm happy that I got all the money back.
From now on, this success story comes from listening to a radio program organized by the AMI live in Gishamvu where I found the opportunity to raise my succession problem. Once again, I thank AMI for approaching the population to advocate for their problems. I propose that AMI can visit other Sectors, because the same problems exist everywhere. I also thank our President Paul Kagame, who has given the value to women for gender equality, and I am committed to raising awareness among other women about the right to land inheritance from their parents and brothers. I thank with all my heart the partners of the AMI like 11.11.11.