Behind the presidential curtains has learnt from its reliable sources that the committee which was given the task of what the RPF called political home work to draw the master plan of extending the Kagame rule has come out with a plan of changing the current Rwandan Constitution to create a Post of Ceremonial President.
Paul Kagame former NRA intelligence officer then RPF/RPA general, then Vice president and minister of defence and chairman of RPF, then president of the republic of rwanda will become a ceremonial president to keep power until 2037. By the time he leaves power he will be almost 90 years old.
Kagame’s anxiety and desire coupled with fear of what will befall on him after 2017 has created the momentum of searching within the RPF establishment the ways of extending the rule of President Kagame.
One of the architectures of the Kagame Project is Prof. Manasseh Nshuti who argues that Rwanda’s political panorama must be viewed from its unique contexts; present and past, however, if anyone could buy this argument in whole sale would instead argue that the Rwanda’s past lost sight when its former leaders started thinking that they are the only leaders with vision. Indeed, in the same manner Prof. Manasseh his selling his ideas, our history tells us all, from the Monarchy, the Post Monarchy from Kayibanda who wanted to change the Constitution, later Juvenal Habyarimana who called himself the father of the nation (Umubyeyi).
Prof. Manasseh is basing his argument on Three Pillars namely, Economy, Leadership and Governance, Sustainability and Continuity. Although none is realistic in Rwanda today, Kagame and his admirers have used these demagogues to lobby for Kagame’s life presidency. Let’s break down each of the above pillars as are presented by Kagame’s project spin doctors.
Rwanda received more aid and loans than any other country on the continent after genocide. After genocide all the loans that it owed to the international money lenders like IM and World Bank were written off as gesture of solidarity and sympathy. Instead of using this money for developmental projects and poverty eradication, RPF and Kagame has used it for invading its neighboring Congo for economic and political reasons or spying and killing its political opponents within the country and abroad. Now Rwanda has gone back to the pre-genocide debit where it cannot even be allowed to borrow anymore.
Kagame and his Spin Doctors came with another plan of auctioning the country in what they now call Bond selling, where the nation is now under auction by private lenders. Does this really mean development? Not at all, all the wealth is now in the hands of the few notably, Kagame and his family, in-laws, and friends. Unfortunately this is what Prof. Manasseh calls the economic miracle.
Leadership and Governance, if you ask any a person who knows Rwanda, will tell you that Rwanda is the North Korea of Africa, a police State, where no views other than those of RPF or those praising RPF would be tolerated. Kagame has gone another mile in the politics where even his former comrades, cadres, and founders of RPF have no say in the RPF political decisions. The year 2014, has seen most of the RPF senior and historical are either sidelined or incarcerated in the notorious prisons of Kagame, the notable ones are the following:
Gen Frank Rusagara , who was one of the founders of RPF and who was one of the RPF designers, Col. Tom Byabaganga who was the Kagame’s security top officer, Tharcisse Karugarama the former Justice Minister who advised the president to honor his pledges that he will respect the Rwandan Constitution.
He was dropped from the Cabinet and accused of being an obstacle for the Kagame extension project. Unlike in other countries, all the families of the above RPF officials are under constant and consistent surveillance from the Kagame spy masters.
Madam ODA GASINZIGWA the commissioner of RPF in September under the orders of Kagame accused her colleagues Lt Col Rose Kabuye, Mary Baine, Ambassador Joy Kanyange, Anne Gahongayire and Immy Camarade of tarnishing the RPF image and spreading harmful propaganda against the RPF with intention of creating disobedience of the population against the RPF regime.
All these ladies who are not only war heroines they have been also instrumental in designing the RPF and Kagame’s rise to where he is now. Unfortunately they have been sidelined, and Inyenyeri has reliable information that they cannot even go to a super market without a stringent of spies fallowing them.
We have also learnt that Kagame has been crisscrossing the State of Israel to get some lectures on how a ceremonial post would work. According to the Constitution of Israel the President is largely a ceremonial political figure and the executive powers are vested in the Prime Minister The President of Israel is elected for Seven year term which is un renewable .Unlike in Israel, the new Kagame project which Inyenyeri news has obtained will give him a ceremonial term of Ten years renewable once, this means that if Kagame is elected as the ceremonial ruler come 2017, he will have another Two terms and his rule will end in 2037.
Paradoxically the Prime Minister will be elected for six years term and renewable once, this post will be occupied by the Kagame likes and supporters as it is today, those who only praise the Kagame regime and RPF will be honored to serve with the new King of Rwanda in the uniform of the ceremonial post of President.
This is what Prof. Manasseh Nshuti and his likes call the Sustainability and stability and continuity after 2017. Unfortunately the Kagame project will breed hesitation, resistance, chaos and more bloodshed in the Rwanda that has been characterized with tension and wars.
Noble Marara