The Rwanda’s medical Dr. turned politician Dr. Joseph Karemera a.k Dr. Poison because Kagame has been using him to inject poison in Kagame’s political opponents.  This ailing Dr. has come publicly in the support of extending the long reign of his Boss president Kagame after his constitutional mandate expires in 2017.

Col Joseph Karemera

In the Rwandan Mouth piece the New times, Col. Dr  Joseph Karemera  calls his Boss “ a great leader with a great track record” The most shocking part of all this to me is that there are still people like Dr  Karemera who support  Kagame either out of fear or induced  political myopia . I look at this talk in disgust , the likes of Karemera  who have been writing in the support of Kagame’s extension of his reign , some or many  comments come  from  people  who would have  used their long political experience to think otherwise, but seem to see  Rwanda as a personal entity  rather than a public institution that has lived for billions of years. Kagame has, and is still using politics to ensure his own survival and riches. The real question is, where is the “world loving” USA and the West when it comes to problems that can’t enrich them?

I would like to remind Dr. Col. Joseph Karemera of the Rwandan proverb that “ukunda umwana kurusha nyina abashaka k’umurya”. Literally meaning you can’t love a child more than its mother, why then Dr. Joseph Karemera would like to love President Kagame more than President Kagame himself?  If Col. Dr. Joseph Karemera does not remember because of health reasons or is deliberately closing his eyes for his personal interests, this is what the  Rwandan president said and has been saying whenever is confronted with the question of “ what next after 2017”?

The Rwandan leader said that if he stays in power after 2017, it will be his Personal failure, Kagame said that the reason many people have given him for staying longer is the very reason he feels that makes it imperative he leaves power. “People say that I should stay because there is no one to replace me. But if in all these years I have been unable to mentor a successor or successors that should be the reason I should not continue as president. It means that I have not created capacity for a post-me Rwanda. I see this as a personal failure.”

Indeed, I don’t think Dr. Joseph Karemera would claim to know Kagame more than Kagame himself – and it seems many of Kagame critics but under the mask of love who pray and play he stays beyond 2017 do so that they can attack or fail him. But what is Kagame’s strength of character? We know that Kagame always sends emissaries to take his message or these emissaries do it for their own survival, For example when Kigali was captured in 1994, they told him to be the President but pretended that he doesn’t want and they elected President Pasteur Bizimungu.

Inside Kagame it was a matter of time of getting experience, indeed just after Six years, his emissaries, Col. Rose Kabuye, Tito Rutaremera, Musoni Portais and Dr. Joseph Karemera were on the forefront of making life for Pasteur Bizimungu very difficult. President Bizimungu was forced to resign and just after one year he was sentenced to 15 years for just starting a political party called Ubuyanja. Little did President Bizimungu know that under the cover of darkness, those RPF cadres were having secret meetings with Kagame planning the down fall of Mr. Bizimungu.

Kagame is a cunning political animal , in the annual retreat of 2013, Kagame said that “ I have been asked by many people especially journalists whether I will respect the term limits on the presidency,” Kagame began his speech on the issue, “But regardless of the answer I give, the question keeps coming back. Now even citizens are asking me the same question – will I retire in 2017. Many of our citizens asking this question are worried about the future of the country – that when I leave, will there be continuity and stability especially given the increasing pressures on the country.”

To emphasize his point, the Rwandan ruler, who was holding letters from ordinary Rwandans, told an attentive NEC meeting attended by over 2,000 people that many citizens have been writing to him expressing fears that when and if he leaves, there could be a reversal of the path the country is on now.  He further said  in addition to the letters, all public functions where he officiates, people say that given the unique circumstances of Rwanda, and recent pressures on its government to toe a certain line, they are worried that when he leaves, many things could go wrong, especially if he leaves quickly and haphazardly.

These are the same rhetoric’s of people under typical dictators all over the World, the North Koreans will and regard their Leaders as magical. The Great Leader Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, could literally walk on water. His son, the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, changed the weather when he visited Russia, which is why the Russians supposedly call him “the man who brings sunshine.” And now Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un is behind the biggest cyber-attack in history—not bad for a country with sporadic electricity and virtually no Internet access.

When the former Libyan ruler Col. Khadafy visited Uganda, he told President Museveni that revolutionaries don’t retire, in fact they are forced to retire, what befell on comrade Khadafy is now history.

We know that no leader of the so called revolutionary movement that captured power after armed victory has left office voluntarily except Fidel Castrol of Cuba after ruling for 48 years – and that was only because he was too ill to continue. From Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh) to China (Mao Tse Tung), North Korea (Kim Ill Sung) to Zimbabwe (Robert Mugabe), Angola (Augustino Neto) to Mozambique (Samora Machel), Ethiopia (Meles Zenawi) to Eritrea (Isias Afewarki) and Uganda (Yoweri Museveni), no leader of such a movement has yet retired from power. They die in office – except for those who are still alive.

Whether Kagame retires or not, he is a brute that has kept his country under perpetual agony, economic grave, meaning shining on the surface but stinking inside and there is no democracy practiced within the country. Kagame is an epitome of dictatorship and all hands should be on deck to ensure that this Pinochet of Rwanda is booted out now. However, this is typical of African leaders. They come into power and will want to die ruling the people even when it is clear that they are no longer wanted by the people.

Jacqueline Umurungi

Brussels.