A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself. Was Rwanda day worth the Hassle?
Kagame’s authoritarian government caused fear and uncertainty in Rwanda, “No wander it is only in Rwanda where a neighbour can spy or kill a neighbour, it is only in Rwanda where someone can betray a life time friend can betray or spy on him/her or kill him/her just to appease the authority in the name of being submissive.”  Everyone is virtually a self proclaimed spy.  What a country Rwanda has become?
Saturday’s Rwanda Day event epitomised what was in the article “A mind defiled by dictatorship …†last week. The disregard for respect and trust for the Rwandan Communities that attended the event by the organisers was a vindication of that article. It is standing up to this act of mistreating members of the community, like the mistrust that was demonstrated while organising the event, that some people who posted comments against the article came out fighting. It is only in places like the Rwanda of today that any dissent or semblance of challenging the Status Quo is an abomination. In other words people are expected to be too submissive to question any sort of authority. In my opinion this is an act of surrendering the God given intellect that makes humans unique. We cannot all have singularity of views or ideas. I do strongly subscribe to the idea that no one is an authority on ideas, more so if our human limitations are put into perspective. Ironically Paul Kagame, the chief intore, does challenge the status quo, like he has done to the UN and other bodies suffice for the wrong reasons. However while addressing the event he stated that “it is only in Rwanda where people are asked to do something and they do it without questioningâ€, ba NDIYO BWANA, giving the Agaciro Fund scenario as an example. What a paradox??? Can any sensible person accept to go through what these intores, like Lydia, Joan and others who posted the comments, went through yesterday for attending the London Rwanda Day event without questioning the rationale? I don’t think any other peoples of this world would have tolerated that inconvenience and humiliation in the name of security checks.
If your authorities can’t trust you, then how can you give them the trust in return by giving them the mandate to mistrust you? Only in Rwanda and Rwandans can buy into this fallacy of surrendering their God given liberties, rights, conscious, imagination and reason so cheaply on a silver plate.  No wander neighbours killed neighbours to appease the authorities, in the name of being submissive.
It would be interesting to explain the logic or reasoning behind keeping the venue of the Rwanda Day ‘secret’ to the supposedly supporters of the occasion, and the security checks nightmare these perceived supporters were put through. Did the perceived potential risk warrant the cost of this exercise or was it sheer display of amateurishness on the part of the organisers? Could be that the opposition has scared the organisers to the core or is it the mistakes made by the RPF regime that influenced the agenda? Who are the real enemies of Rwanda? I believe it is the voice of sycophancy that has been developed by our new born ‘mwidishi’.
Those who reside in the UK might have witnessed on many occasions state functions where millions of people have attended and the Queen herself presided over. The most recent of them being the Olympics and the Queen’s Jubilee. Did anyone go through such nightmare of security checks?  I think it was not necessary and way-way above the top. What message did we pass to the Britons involved in the operation, the police, bus drivers and the venue owners? Rwandans have to learn to challenge this backward mistrust of their fellow citizens and emancipate their minds from creating imaginary enemies. The opposition like RNC and FDU are Rwandans like anyone else and are entitled to attend if they wish to.
How can people like Ignatius Mugabo and Mulego, who reside in Rwanda now, be allowed to go away with showing disregard for the hard working many who make the Rwandese UK Community that was supposed to host this event? We need to wake up and emancipate ourselves from these divisive characters.  We need answers for the shambles in organising the event; hiding the venue, the unnecessary security checks in the guise of insecurity, the inconvenience of leaving our mobiles  and vehicles across the city, and many more. Who is going to pay for the cost of going back to pick our cars from SW4 in the wee hours?
I would like to thank our youth for coming to attend despite the inconvenience. Most people had been put off by the signs of shambles in the organisation coming to the event. Unlike other earlier visits by the President, this one was allowed to be hijacked by mercenaries like John Ngarambe, Ignatius Mugabo and Mulego. These are well known opportunists, ‘ba rusahulira mu nduluâ€. If it was not for our youth persevering, we would have been exposed in numbers attending from UK. So, for our youth Bravo! However next time challenge the status quo and ask for the UK standard of organising rather than the ‘banana state like’ organisation this time round.
The jury is out there.
Simple question. How much security check do you go through when you enter the United States – Where you reside????
Do not cling on straws!!!!
Which youth are you talking about? I would very much like to know where you get your information from. As you usual nothing the government does is alright in your eyes. Despite the suceess of the evening where about 3,000 people attended the event, were very happy to see and interract with their President and First Lady.
Instead of you wasting your time talking why don’t you join us to build our country. You just critisise especially the things that are going well. If it actually had been bad you would have said nothing, because that is what you want. You want the Government to fail and when it goes on and on becoming number one in all international polls you cannot stomach it.
Give it a rest – you cannot win.
And by the way my name is Lydia not Linda. Another failure in your part to tell the trugh.
Dear Lydia from Germany,
We do not post names. The comment sections submits that automatically and we have no control over it. My apologies LYDIA…
Dear Lydia, before I post my comment I would like
To advice you not to take the article personal. This is
A free world and people are intitled with their views
So leave Rwema with his assessment. Back to the point
This article shows the inproffesion work of writer. What\’s
Is wrong for organiser to put security machine to protect
And prevent crimes from ill, cowards and traitors who can\’t
Even travel back to their mother land. We can swallow
Every work of disorganising our country but Rwema, we can\’t
Compromise our security and security of our people. We all know that
Demonstrator wanted just to turnish the name Kagame but
Believe me this man is Too big to be involved in such cheap demonstration
And what was incredible was that even no single media covered
Their demonstration! Long Live Rwanda
Why do you need to apologies to Lydia? Lydia Kagame and some Rwandans are exactly what the writer has put down.
Why Rwanda day in Britain and you force Rwandan business men to go with head of state in zero profit making trip where he ended up being scorned?
Why Kagame to explain business yet he has minister of Trade, commerce and Finance anyway Gatete? why do you find Kagame explain IT yet we have head of IT possibly even in his office RITA or infrastructure minister can be conversant than him? Is it because he is an expert in all?? To me that is why we can have Rwanda day out side and export Rwandans there instead of commodities.
Rwanda day is supposed to be in Rwanda and you invite all people to Rwanda, spend all money to the service providers of our nation otherwise its UK day. What have we gained as a Nation from the trip? What did business men gain and what have they lost? Have we gained any thing on side of our immigration on sales of our entrance visa? has our hotels at least hosted those three thousand guests? Am very sure even three thousand you claim all of them there tickets and visa were paid by the state on aid money and revenue collections exception has been on poor business men.
You have nothing and you spend even the small you have been given back to the house of the very person who has given to you and you tell him or her how wealthy you are yet you beg and when he/she refuses to give to you due to your conduct you start to protest with baby cries of how they pass their checks over your head.
Kagame kills his Nationals just on suspicion and that has turned the image of our country as a country of killers.
Developments are there yes I agree but compared to where? What if even the few critics of the critical nationals are considered and given chance of contributing to their mother land instead of hunting them to extinction.
Why should Every Rwandan mouth piece fronts clean Kigali and forget people who are being slaughtered like animals in abattoir where animal rights are not applicable? There will always be hope that a poor man can prosper but a murdered man would never have hope and those whom state create cases to jail them almost half of there active life time can never have hope! Now how can we say that we are developing when we have more than three hundred Rwandans in Island of Iwawa for more than four years just on suspicious and created reasons what if all those young men has been contributing to our national economy how good do you think it could be? How do you expect development when you give orders of shooting more than 280 Rwandan sons in so called M23 so that you can get a cover for holding evil for more years? Who knows if among 280 we had no billionaires or even best presidents if Kagame is one? How do say we are developed when we have millions of refugees whose rights were denied at home? How do you say we are developed when our Nation is surrounded by created enemies who are ever ready to swallow us given chance because of our head of state blind hate? Lydia and your friends you don\\\\\\\’t like Kagame more than those ones who shielded him in the time most of Rwandan Nationals were calling him Inzoka, the time when the inter Nation were forced to go to burry Rwigema and saying how Inyangarwanda bazikubise inshuro! To day people are Inyangarwanda yesterday it was Kagame and even those whom he hunts but time came you call him Umubyeyi yet Habyarimana was also called Umubyeyi! It reminds me many fellows in history like George Washington, Mahat magandi , Nelson Mandera, M7, even Kagame were called all sorts of Names but they finally become the real sons of the state and the world! Mworoshye abo murimogutuka mugabuza nabana Burwanda abanga akarengane!
I WISH I CAN MEET TWO PEOPLE IN MY LIFE BEFORE I DIE (RWEMA AND MARARA) OHHH GOD! I WISH GOD COULD REVEAL TO ME WHAT IS IN THE MINDS OF RWEMA AND MARARA SURELY! AT MY LEVEL AND IN MY CAPACITY OF ANALYSING POLITICAL TRENDS, I HAVE NEVER EVER SEEN/HEARD OF ANY OTHER PRESIDENT BEING ATTACKED VIA MEDIA ON THE DAILY BASIS LIKE KAGAME IS!!! NUBWAMBERE MBONYE ABANTU BATAJYA BABONA AKANTU KEZA GAKORWA NA KAGAME, NUBWO KABA 0.1 %!!!! AHAAAAAAA. ARIKO ICYAMPERA MARARA OR RWEMA CHANCE NGO BAYOBORE U RWANDA MAZE NDEBE!!!! BANA BIMANA NTABWO KUYOBORA IGIHUGU ARI UMUKINO!