{"id":2184,"date":"2022-02-26T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ataftax.org.www34.jnb2.host-h.net\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2184"},"modified":"2022-09-05T13:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:33:48","slug":"tribute-to-agnes-kanyangeyo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/news\/tribute-to-agnes-kanyangeyo\/","title":{"rendered":"TRIBUTE TO AGNES KANYANGEYO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"fw-image-block_6315fa1dbaac5\" class=\"fw-image\">\n  <div class=\"site-container\">\n  <div class=\"fw-image__wrapper\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsAppImage2022-02-26at5.56.28PM-1920w.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"fw-image__image border\">\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section id=\"single-col-content-block_6315fa20baac6\" class=\"single-col-content\">\n\n\n      <div class=\"site-container\">\n        <div class=\"single-col-content__wrapper\">\n        \n                            <div class=\"single-col-content__header\">\n                    <h2>Mere words cannot express the shock and pain we at ATAF have on learning about the passing of Agnes, the former Deputy Commissioner- General of the Rwanda Revenue Authority, an accomplished continental tax practitioner, friend, and dear colleague to us all!  Our hearts go out to her family, the RRA family and all who were privileged to know Agnes.<\/h2>\n                <\/div>\n                        \n            <div class=\"single-col-content__text dark-green outside line-height-19\">\n                <p class=\"text-align-justify\"><span class=\"\">Brilliant, principled, and knowledgeable, Agnes was an excellent tax administrator.\u00a0 A strong believer in the betterment of humanity in general and the African people in particular, she relentlessly promoted efficiency in tax collection as a means to address the developmental needs on the continent.\u00a0 An unapologetic ATAF champion, Agnes contributed to ATAF\u2019s work consistently, and way beyond her call of duty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The highlights of her contributions as a Country Correspondent representing her Country Rwanda at ATAF Council and other meetings, are immeasurable and will live on in the products, policies she helped formulate. Quietly but firmly expressing her truth and ideas with a permanent smile that we all loved, her contributions now form part of ATAF\u2019s flagship work such as the African Tax Outlook, an annual tax statistics publication, in whose 2015 launch -she was instrumental.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Accomplished in the tax field, Agnes was a force of nature, passionately supporting the development of tax expertise on the continent and selflessly sharing her vast knowledge through mentoring others and encouraging consistent self-development.\u00a0 For this and way more, we at ATAF feel blessed to have known Agnes, and mourn with her family, the RRA family and entire tax fraternity on this loss of a formidable icon, gone too soon!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">As aptly put by Sri Chinmoy;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>\u00a0Death is not the end<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>\u00a0Death cannot be the end<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>\u00a0Death is the road<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>\u00a0Life is the traveler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>\u00a0The soul is the guide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">\n<p class=\"m-size-13 size-16 text-align-center\"><strong>\u00a0<span class=\"m-font-size-13 font-size-16\">May Agnes rest in peace, and may her memory be a blessing!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n                            <\/div>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mere words cannot express the shock and pain we at ATAF have on learning about the passing of Agnes, the former Deputy Commissioner- General of the Rwanda Revenue Authority, an accomplished continental tax practitioner, friend, and dear colleague to us all!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2185,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"news-categories":[48],"class_list":["post-2184","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-categories-general-assembly"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"news-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ataftax.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-categories?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}