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The Rwandan Minister for Justice and Attorney-General Johnston Busingye, has continued to deliberately lie or mislead the Rwandan people on the arrest warrants against Rwandan officials. According to Mr. Busingye the Arrest Warrants were recently dismissed by the Spanish Supreme court, however, this is a lie and is intended to mislead the Rwandan people with the intention of political manipulation; we can state that they are still legally valid, active and effective.

Indeed, the Spanish judicial authorities and prosecution have both confirmed to the media and the international world that the warrants are still valid.

Is Mr. Busingye confused or is confusing Rwandans because in a statement released last evening, Minister Busingye described the claims from the Spanish Judiciary  that the arrest warrants are still valid and effective as false, misleading and unknown to law.’ What law is Mr. Busingye reading or interpreting?  What is false? What Mr. Busingye is saying or the Spanish Judiciary?

Mr. Busingye can come out and tell us why and whether Gen. KK could travel to any European country.

The arrest warrants issued in 2008 by Spanish judge caught up with Lt General Karenzi Karake the head of the National Intelligence and Security Services. On June 20, he was barred from leaving the UK where he was on an official mission.

Mr. Bisingye for the reasons we don’t know, has continued to lie and mislead the Rwandan people that the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, UK, dropped charges against him following the Prosecutor’s admission of a lack of evidence. Contrary to what Mr. Busingye is saying, Gen. KK was set free because the UK Law did not have jurisdiction bacause of retroactivity law of crimes against humanity not evidence as the Mr. Busingye is telling the Rwandan people.

According to Mr. Busingye “General Karake’s case in the UK crumbled on account of the Spanish Judicial Authority’s own admission that it could not discharge the burden of proof required for a decision to extradite,” he said.

Either the minister did not read the whole judgment of the Spanish Supreme Court of September 25 which clearly ruled that it did not satisfy the requirements for trial under the Spanish Universal Jurisdiction Law only cases of crimes against humanity but not terrorism. Indeed, Gen. KK is accused of terrorism and as such the arrest warrants on the account of terrorism are still valid and effective.

According to Mr. Busingye the Spanish Supreme Court decision could be mooted, unfortunately this is the Rwandan Minister of Justice and Attorney General who interprets the Spanish Supreme Court Decision according to the Rwandan law.

Mr. Busingye thinks he could bribe or buy the Spanish and international justice, according to him, “It’s now the moment to engage constructively. I now expect the arrest warrants to be cancelled, if not cancelled already, transmission of the investigation file to complement the one in Kigali and warm and professional collaboration between the respective Spanish and Rwandan institutions on all subsequent steps,” Busingye said of the way forward.

While Mr. Busingye could bribe the Rwandan Supreme Court to decide and interpret the Rwandan Constitution with impunity, they cannot and even his predecessor Mr. Karugarama failed to buy the Spanish Justice. The only gift he can give the suspects is to allow them to go to the Spanish courts and defend themselves and Mr. Busingye as the most senior legal representative of the Rwandan government could give them legal representation.