Noble Marara warns opposition

Through Behind the presidential curtains Noble Marara highlights that, while President Paul Kagame is busy consolidating his power by changing the Constitution, the opposition is busy splitting up and plotting against each other.

Behind the presidential curtains had previously warned that the continued disunity among the opposition groups will cost them dearly and serving Kagame’s interests. Despite Kagame’s continued mistakes in waging war on Burundi and other neigbouring countries, such as attacking Congo, killing his own people and muzzling free media and lack of political space in the country, the opposition is busy organising the fall of their own leadership.

There is no golden rule in Rwandan politics and particularly the constructive opposition policies for making real change after Kagame, damning opposition political parties that change leader’s mid-stream to eternal political opprobrium.

Only days since Kagame changed the Rwandan Constitution, the opposition are split more than ever, they should borrow a leaf from Burundi where President Nkuruniziza has managed and outsmarted Kagame who has waged war against him, since the date Nkurunziza declared his intention to run for the Third Term.

The Rwandan Opposition is struggling with the issue of the internal democracy, but unresolved is the motive of the opposition litany of policy disasters, its rejected leaders by their own and failure to deal with increasingly alarmed discontented senior officials within all the opposition political parties.

The opposition should use the international or regional influential media rather than wasting their limited resources in the so called internal intrigues. They should instead organise and mobilize in the Diaspora, regional and within Rwanda to keep up with the momentum of Kigali regime.

There is no any resistance movement in the world that has managed to capture power without first uniting its sister resistance groups, because they should know that their disunity is counterproductive as it will erode the confidence of the real people they intend to liberate.

Admittedly, some opposition groups are starting new groups rather than reshaping the existing ones, all this inadvertently makes Kagame smile and makes him more comfortable on his throne.

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Kagame reading a letter and laughing out loud at opposition disunity

Therefore, this missive or column, whatever you may call it, is intended for all those who claim to represent the broad masses of the Rwandan people, FDU Inkingi, RNC, Green Party, RDI and any other political entity identified with resistance to  stop ‘Familiocracy’, nepotism, corruption, financial bungling, wasteful of their limited resources and all other anti-societal mechanisms and election gimmickry and  to their leaders who are at present embroiled in a distressing dilemma as to how to displace the current governing officials, the issue is one, unite and work for the good of the Rwandan people, continue disunity leave no legacy behind.

So long as the control of the national conversation stays with the RPF and Kagame in particular, the Opposition’s role becomes exclusively one of reactive response as opposed to proactive; instead of dictating the flow of events of national significance, the Opposition becomes a virtual prisoner of the one who controls that flow of events, losing the political initiative which is vital and crucial in the process of recruitment of new members to their ranks. People do not get attracted to an alternative political agenda by random; they do not join new political trends without thinking twice or weighing advantages over disadvantages.

People do not back a political party for the sake of the country or patriotism nor do they leave a political party because they find that party corrupt or wasteful. Although negative campaigning in politics always works, that negative campaign must always carry an underlying positive agenda, an agenda which should effectively portray something very helpful and supportive to the people and it should be communicated in the right lingo and with the necessary coating. This is what all the opposition political parties have failed to realize in earnest. You stand warned that, you should unite or perish one by one.

Noble Marara.