The leader of Inkingi an opposition party in Rwanda Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza has been sentenced by the Rwandan High Court to Eight Years for her political beliefs in which she says that Rwanda should not be under one party state. Many people anticipated the sentence but what was not anticipated is the years of the sentence given to her while her co accused have almost been given a mockery sentence. These gentlemen were just planted there by RPF machinery just to convict Ingabire. And don’t be surprised if after the court these guys will be on Kigali streets celebrating with their masters and sharing a pint of beer.
Could you imagine how RPF machinery used Pastor Noel to destroy Bernard Ntaganda who was consequently sentenced to 4 years just because he wanted to organize his party for an assembly which actually is a fundamental right in our constitution, un fortunately Pastor Noel his political life was short and was replaced by Madam Mukabunani who at an appropriate time will be also replaced.
Why then Ingabire sentenced to 8 years when the prosecution asked life?
RPF is good at these games, first of all Ingabire had nothing to answer as far as the accusations are concerned. But RPF is scared for a strong opposition despite boasting 25 years of their existence. In fact RPF has no support at all in the village level and in the cities. Their policies are so ugly that many people are fade up waiting for the Messiah.
Imagine that all the businesses from selling charcoal to construction of City Tower buildings is controlled by RPF or its proxies, the masses have been eliminated from not only small business but have been pushed to the cliff without mercy. Just to illustrate my point, a lady who is selling bananas on a small basket or avocado will be chased by the local defence and the police bundled in the pickup in the name of keeping the City clean. What a hypocrisy of the RPF elite who drive expensive cars, eating luxury food, from SIMBA, and Nakumart.!
They have sold all the prime land in City to themselves without paying a single penny to the national treasury; they have also taken private property in the name of developing the City without proper expropriation of the owners. The RPF regime has muzzled all the opposition political parties save those which are their branches in the name of PSD, PDI, just to mention a few. The mono cropping of maize or any other crop which RPF will use in its industries without care whether it will benefit the common person, These are some of the injustices this lady Ingabire was talking about.
Will her Ideas just fade because she has been sentenced?
The African National Congress of South Africa was a party that was built on Ideas of equality in the same way as Inkingi, and Rwanda National Congress, therefore sentencing, its leaders like Ingabire for 8 years, Kayumba Nyamwasa for 20 years or Theogene Rudasingwa respectively in absentia, just to mention a few will not solve the fundamental problem, because the fundamental problem is justice for all regardless of race, sex, religion, regional background etc. RPF regime should address these issues and arrest them, rather than arresting the leaders of these political parties. This was exactly what the former Rwandan King, MUTARA II RUDAHIGWA said, “why should kill Gitera without killing the ikimutera”
Nelson Mandela Madiba, the ANC and South African hero and icon, said “There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires”
The Burmese icon lady Aung San Suu Kyi who sacrificed her life for the freedom of her country and country citizen has started reaping the fruits of her struggle after she has been under House arrest for 15 of the past 21 years, on different occasions, since she began her political career, during which time she was prevented from meeting her party supporters and international visitors. But recently she was released from prison and she was elected as a member of the parliament in his country.
Indeed, if Rwanda will be free from the talons of the most powerful monster of the RPF regime, we need ladies and gentlemen of the charisma of Ingabire, Ntaganda, Deo Mushayidi, Ntakirutinka, those who were murdered like Andrew Rwisereka Kagwa and others who have stood in the way of the monster and said no, we want freedom.
When the RPF invaded Rwanda in 1990, and unfortunately our heroes like Gen Fred Rwigema and his colleagues died immedaitely at the initial start of the war, the Habyarimana government rejoiced and all the soldiers celebrated the death of the RPF leaders, but little did they know that the fire had been lit and the ideas and ideology of the reasons had not been killed.
For those who are Christians, the bible says that do not be afraid for those who kill the fresh, Matthew 10:28 “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell”. Indeed, history has been on the side of those who are oppressed not the oppressor. Idi Amin of Uganda like President Kagame for the Eight years that he ruled Uganda, many people where picked from their offices, murdered by his notorious secret agents the Special Research Bureau of Farouk Minawa in the same way Gen Jack Nziza kills whoever his boss tells him to exterminate.
The Archbishop Janan Luwum was murdered in 1977, the CHIEF JUSTICE Ben Kiwanuka was murdered in 1972 in fact he was picked from the chambers of the Uganda High Court, the list is endless, but the days of Id Amin and the power he had came to an end and of course with those who were surrounding him. I’m told that these guys were picked like grasshoppers from their hiding places after the fall of the murderer Id Amin, one by one was answering for the crimes against humanity, while Id Amin was in Saudi Arabia eating chicken from the Saudi Royal family.
This a message to my country men who are used by Kagame, these guys like Tinka Faustin who has been used by the regime to kill an innocent Rwandan Theogene Turatsinze, who was the Director of the Rwanda Development Bank for greed and selfishness of those who robbed the above bank. Gen Jack Nziza who has murdered every living soul that his boss thinks has different views from his; will one day individually answer for these crimes?
There’re is no doubt that Ingabire’s dream is like that of Martin Luther King and has been demonstrated in what will go down in history for freedom in our nation. But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity in our country. And so, Ingabire and others have cashed the check of freedom, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice may be not in our life time but the foundation stone for the freedom of our generation to come has been launched.
Jacqueline Umurungi
Brussels