Noble Marara

A general who only fired two bullets all his life is likely to hit us all if we do not reorganize, the opposition is fantasizing to fight Kagame, but at the moment what is required is more than media, mobilising or preaching human rights. Kagame is a dictator who admits it; he outlines the reason and the way to eliminate anyone who questions his criminality.

Gen Kagame only used a gun twice in his life but has ordered the death of millions.

Paul Kagame has detained innocent people just to prove that he can hurt his opponents, in Rwanda people are living in anxiety, does not matter whether someone is in RPF, FDU or any other political party. Different people are living different states in a tiny nation full of ghosts.

Strategic planning is urgently needed where we the opposition should be defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its policies to pursue this strategy. It may also extend to control mechanisms for guiding the implementation of this strategy. The opposition should compare itself like a company that is surrounded by other powerful competitive companies; I would suggest here that the formulation of competitive strategy of the opposition includes consideration of the following key elements:

  1. Opposition strengths and weaknesses;
  2. Personal values of the key implementers (i.e. opposition decision makers);
  3. In opportunities and threats
  4. Broader societal expectations.
  5. Work together and value each other’s specialities
  6. Know the reason why we exist
  7. Understand the importance of removing a criminal
  8. Defend ourselves from everywhere we get attacked (cooperation of political parties) educating young generations who are scattered around the world) those who fall out with Kagame are they necessarily the saviours or the well-established system in the opposition.
  9. Positive response where necessary
  10. Psychological sabotage
  11. Competence leaders

The weakness and strength and Personal values of the key implementers of the opposition relate to factors internal to the opposition (i.e., the internal environment), while in opportunities and threats and broader societal expectation  relate to factors external to the opposition (i.e., the external environment).

Other elements will be considered throughout the strategic political planning process of the opposition:

Work together and value each other’s specialities, the opposition has failed to work together, we want opposition of different background to work together, alongside people of other political parties to become agents of change for the Common Good in our country. Together for the Common Good is building a new, broad coalition between different political parties and fellow Rwandans of different communities to re-imagine political life and commitment to the flourishing of all people.

Know the reason why we exist: As Mandela said “Our daily deeds … must produce an actual … reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.”

We all strive to make our country the best place to live in not only for our generation but for the generation to come, it is the common understanding that we cannot live indifferently to the problems of our country or deal with them individually, because the enemy would want it that way, we should therefore put our togetherness at the heart of our political and economic decision making.

Understand the importance of removing a criminal: The practice of the common good as I mentioned above is the beginning to emerge as a transformative, alternative way to approach our polarized political and cultural life.  It is at the heart of a profound political shift that has the potential to strengthen our cohesion and place human dignity at the heart of economic and political decision-making. The Rwandan people have suffered enough under the RPF regime and Kagame in particular; we need a united front to liberate our people from the talons of the vicious prey.

Defend ourselves from everywhere we get attacked: As I said above our young generation that did not see the sacrifice made by their peers are scattered around the global, the opposition has a duty to educate young regenerations and equip them with necessary skills and experience, rather than relying on the old guards as the legitimate saviors.

Positive response where necessary:  Deuteronomy 19:21 Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Kagame’s policy as it was described by Major Alphonse Fuluma was to kill those he wanted to be killed in what he called political balance of power, he has continued to kill unabated, Rwandans should have the right and a duty to defend themselves by responding positively to the  dictator and send him a strong message that enough is enough.

Psychological sabotage: Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity or corporation through subversion, obstruction, disruption, or destruction. Kagame has killed so many innocent people from Rwanda and even in the neighboring Congo. We need to counter his vicious actions by psychologically weakening politically his interests both internally and externally. The opposition have to create a strong team of both foreign and domestic affairs to de-intoxicate the poison and lies that Kagame has been feeding the international community.

Finally, Competent leaders: The author John Gardner once said, “The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”

We all admire leaders who display high degree of competence, whether they are precision craftsmen, world-class athletes, or successful business leaders, political leaders. And most of us want to be seen as competent at our work. For leaders, competence is especially important. It can determine whether followers respect and follow you — or don’t. Here are some specific ways to cultivate the quality of competence.

When you think about people who are competent, you’re really considering only three types of people:

  1. Those who can see what needs to happen.
  2. Those who can make it happen.
  3. Those who can make things happen when it really counts.

Indeed, at this juncture in our political history Rwanda needs competent leaders, who see what needs to happen, who can make it happen and who can make things happen when it really counts.

In Rwanda there is only one judge and that is Paul Kagame, the others are stuck in the middle cannot make right decisions, they only have to judge according to what they guess Kagame may like. That is why we have people in jail who may have qualified for bail but denied due to our Judges not being confident enough to challenge a one man nation.

Noble Marara