While the death of the former Rwandan spy master Col. Patrick Karegeya who fell apart with the Kagame dictatorial regime is still under investigation, Kagame as usual has come out publicly to tell not only his political opponents but also the whole world that however to challenge him dares will be physically exterminated.

The Rwandan leader told the gathering who came for what they call thanks giving breakfast at the Serena Hotel that all enemies of Rwanda will face serious consequences and ill pay heavy price. “You cannot betray Rwanda and get away with it. There are consequences for betraying your country.”  But does Rwanda belong to Kagame?

“I cannot be apologetic about that if you know the grenades that have been thrown on our streets killing Rwandan children,” he said.

Unfortunately Kagame has been planning how to smear mud to his political opponents to eliminate them politically or physically. Indeed, some of the tactics include throwing grenades in the City killing innocent civilians then fabricate culprits using money and intimidation to accuse his opponents of crimes that they have not committed.

According to him, anyone who opposes his dictatorial governance skills is a traitor,    “Anyone who betrays our cause or wishes our people ill will fall victim. What remains to be seen is how you fall victim,” Mr Kagame said. What a shame! For a man who claims to have liberated the Rwandan people from genocide and is now doing the same things his predecessors were doing and he has proved to be worse than all his predecessors combined.

It seems that the Rwandan the leader does not grasp the difference between a traitor and a political opponent or just political differences and how they could be handled.  Rwanda has had a big share of the African dictator syndrome where some African leaders lack political skills and solve political issues with military means.  Extra judicial killing is a crime within Rwandan law and international law which Kagame at a certain time will be brought to account.

While the Rwandan High Commissioner to UK William Nkurunziza was appearing on Focus on Africa BBC Programme he reaffirmed what his boss had said despite being a diplomat saying undiplomatic assertions. The host asked him whether Karegeya had paid the price as his president was talking about in the breakfast meeting and the High Commissioner confused as he looked said that the president meant anybody who betrays his country.  Williams Nkurunziza, Rwanda’s high commissioner to the UK, told the BBC that former Rwandan intelligence Chief Patrick Karegeya was an “enemy of the state”.

It is unfortunate that Rwanda like some African nations has failed to solve our differences with a ball pen and a paper rather a barrel of a gun, the question is now , how long will this undemocratic means of solving political differences will continue and how many more Rwandans are willing to pay the price as Kagame is saying?

Kagame fortunately has been very open to his political opponents that he will kill them if they dare to challenge him and he has lived to his promise. He killed the Vice President of the Green Party Andrew Rwisereka Kagwa and his body decapitated was thrown in the swamp. Many more have been incarcerated using his courts, the list is long but Rwandans are divided more than ever with almost everyone forming his or her own party.   When the Green Party was complaining that they have been denied the right to register, Kagame publicly told his audience that he does not understand why his Ministers don’t allow parties to register because whoever will not comply with RPF will never know what will hit him\her.

What more evidence then the South African investigators are looking for? The actions of President Kagame are no longer a secret, when he fell apart with the late Laurent Desire Kabila the former Congo leader he was later assassinated. Kagame has been on the fore front of destabilizing Congo for his own selfish interests every time the Congo leaders refused to succumb to his demands.  Kagame has warned his Tanzanian counterpart of hitting him at his time of choosing, does the World see the danger of this Rwandan despot?  Thomas Sankara the late President of Burkina Faso warned African leaders of disunity that will make them pay dearly where one by one will be picked by his colonial masters, Sankara was later brutally butchered by his comrade and friend Blaise Compaore.

Do Rwandans know this? Should we wait to see another Karegeya picked from the streets of London or Paris? Do we need more political parties or just simply bring together our divisions and have a common ground on how to deal with this Rwandan monster?  According Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Indeed, time to kill by Kagame and his security forces should be stopped by Rwandans and will only be able to do it when they join hands and bring Kagame to account for all the crimes he has committed against Rwandans and neighbors alike.

Jacqueline Umurungi

Brussels.