President Kagame has appointed his former Prosecutor General Mr. Ngoga Martin to head the BBC Documentary inquiry. According to Mr. Ngoga his mandate will be to find out whether the BBC did not breach the contract of operation in Rwanda and whether the RURA the government regulatory body was not operating outside the law when it ordered the closure of the BBC even before investigation.

 

Paradoxically the panel is composed of Mr. Evode Uwizeyimana who was one of the BBC fans and legal analyst before he was persuaded to go back to Kigali. Evode was one of the legal analysts who said that the RPF operates like a gang of armed bandits who disregard the rule of law. Indeed, Lt. Col. Jill Rutaremara used to say that where the law is forfeited, RPF will use scrutiny. This means that they will never the less   accomplish their mission outside the law.

Obviously RURA acted illegally by closing the BBC without following the law. It breached the contract and should pay compensation to the economic and reputation detriment BBC suffered.  Unfortunately the Minister of Justice and Attorney General who is the Seniour legal advisor seems to be on another planet. He was recently asked by Voice of America whether the closure of the BCC was legal. His response was vague and inconclusive because it is likely that the closure was planned outside his docket.

It is likely, that when the President was watched the BBC Documentary as usual did not even seek the legal opinion of his legal Chief, he rather unilaterally ordered Gen Jack Nziza to pass on his message to the RURA to close the BBC. Kagame should employee and listen to his competent legal team in his office to advise him on such reckless decisions which are not only legally wrong but also politically detrimental.

The Ngoga Martin Inquiry lacks moral, legal, competence and independence; hence they will not produce anything other than the wishes of President Kagame. These commissions are a reflex of Kagames political allergy and a failure to counter facts with facts.  It is unfortunate that this inquiry is going to cost the taxpayer a lot of money because the President has failed to comprehend and appreciate that the causes of all this scandal is a result of his ignorance and arrogance.

When you consider the Muco Commission that was established to find out the role of France in Rwanda genocide or Mutsinzi Commission that was investigating into the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana.

Both Commissions took a lot of money yet objectively achieved nothing, because all the information lacked credibility and factual support. It was just a drama staged by Kagame to deviate the international community from questioning him the war crimes and his role in Genocide.

However, these commissions just suspended the problem and maybe we can conclude that at least Kagame survived for a while, but the same Habyarimana ghost is back over his head haunting him. The skulls of innocent people killed by Kagame and scattered all over Rwanda will never give Kagame peace. The innocent Bishops he brutally murdered in Gakurazo and buried in a mass grave will always give Kagame sleepless nights.

It is evident that President Kagame is becoming restless; he is now travelling a lot to de stress himself or may be to run away from some of these ghosts that are crying or flying over his Kiyovu residence.  We have learnt that he is now in India from South Korea attending a trade summit, what is the role of the Minister of Finance? In fact Kagame has taken the role of Ministers, they no longer have jobs, why can’t he leave presidency and become the Minister of General Duties?  Our friends in Kigali have told us that his Kiyovu residence is surrounded with big bats.  Indeed, some people have concluded that these big bats symbolize or represent many people murdered by Kagame.

What will the Ngoga Inquiry achieve? What is its objective?  Nothing really, the only thing president Kagame would have done is to employee intellectuals who would delve deep in what really is in the BBC Documentary. But the problem Kagame is a man who does not love advice that is contrary to his own opinion even if it will save him from shame.

The BBC Documentary talks of the Number of the Tutsi who were killed, why can’t they use the Gacaca data to establish the actual number of the Tutsis who were killed and the survivors so that they counter argue the Two American Professors and Jane Cobin of the BBC? This would be good evidence to present to the court and would even be relied upon by the RURA as the basis of closing the BBC.

Will Ngoga inquiry dispute the massacre in Kibeho where credible evidence show that the number of people killed was more than the RPF admitted? Does he have any legal justification for these murders? Imagine the former Prosecutor Leonard Hategekimana who is now doctored by Kagame Prosecution that he released the former Prefect of Butare Jean Baptists Habyarimana who was later murdered by Interahamwe. What else would this poor prosecutor have done after the former Justice Minister ordered his release?

Do these Ngoga and all the Kagame prosecutors who have concocted charges on innocent Rwandans and are dying in Prisons know that one day will pay the same currency of Mr. Leonard Hategekimana?

I remember just recently in the Rwandan Parliament, Hon. Nyandwi Desire brought this idea that when he was still the Minister of Local Government , they had gathered   data on the number of Tutsis that where killed. But the RPF spin doctors like TITO Rutaremara will not listen because under their hearts they have a different agenda.

Secondary, will the Ngoga Inquiry also contest the fact that Kagame downed the Presidential Jet of President Habyarimana, Is Ngoga incompetent enough to handle that issue? Does he have the facts that prove otherwise? Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa who was the Chief Intelligence Officer during the downing of the plane says he is 100% sure that Kagame brought down the plane. May be he has the receipt that bought those missiles that hit the Habyarimana Falcon Jet. Will he dispute that the shooting of the Habyarimana plane was not the precursor that ignited Genocide?

What will really Mr. Ngoga do with Mr. Evode Uwizeiyamana who naturally hates Kagame and knows that he is working for the monster who disregards the rule of law? What credibility will this inquiry have? I would rather advise President Kagame to invest in independent intellectuals to counter these facts. I would also give a free advice to the opposition to lobby and establish an independent investigation in more crimes Kagame committed and is committing now. Let’s make the monster naked, otherwise he will create more commissions in order to buy time.

Jacqueline Umurungi

Brussels.