People in government (Kagame’s pawns) make a big show of how savvy and modern they are showing off their week end attire, snickers and slacks, pulling their trendy light travel gear, pausing for cameras showing the average Rwandan how it’s all done when you’ve made it to the top. This year, the novelty was the umbrellas.

The press is given carte blanche with photos and every fake smile accolade and handshake is snapped. Everything is done to make the pawns look larger than life and then, over the next couple of days Paul Kagame relishes in belittling each and every one of them for their incompetence and uselessness.

He makes spectacles of them on live television where they are encouraged to explain stammering how they have yet again failed to deliver.

 

Perverse, isn’t it?

 

While the idea of a conference on leadership consultations and accountability is noble, Paul Kagame and his pawns  are all ignoring the very obvious elephants in the room ,of which I will only mention two today:

  1. The appalling lack of freedom expression
  2. The army, it’s rogue methods, human rights abuses, it’s impunity and reign of terror since it took Kigali in 1994.

The more you and your pawns burry your heads in denial, the worst things get.

RRM

Kigali Brigade