Dear Mr. Kagame, Happy New Year.

I have just painstakingly sat through your presidential address ushering in the year 2020.

It was excruciating albeit better than your performance on RTV where you tried to explain the unexplainable closure of borders on your landlocked self.

You were never much appreciated in the region to begin with and now, you have succeeded in further isolating yourself and the rest of Rwanda with you.

Kagame, you are chasing fantom threats. You are afraid of the wrong things. No neighbour of Rwanda is interested in burning your grass hut down; which of your neighbours living in similar conditions would dare start another regional conflict? The Great Lakes /East African Regions are still dealing with the consequences of the one that put you in power in 1994!

The threat to your autocratic rule is elsewhere Mr Kagame and it has nothing to do with Burundi or Uganda. It has nothing to do with your favourite scapegoats: Presidents Nkurunziza & Museveni.

Thanks to your birdbrained policies that put more effort in falsifying data to keep polishing your fraud economic miracle, these young uneducated Rwandans ( for the most part ) looking on as you and your court lavishly celebrate the year 2020 are growing into a very hungry and angry mob by the day. They will soon get tired of dancing to your development song and a day is coming when they really will have nothing to lose. The yellowbellies you have surrounded yourself with are incapable of breathing a word to you about it; they applaud you in public and laugh at you in the privacy of their living rooms, it is the price they must pay to secure a future for their children.

Kagame, democracy is your only dignified exit. If I were you, I would reflect on it.

Noble Marara

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