Mr. Evode Uwizeyimana’s financial survival is based on how frequent and consistent   keeps the light of lies and deception burning. He again appeared in the Rwanda pro- newspaper  Izuba Rirashe where he said that  the former RPF carders who disagreed with Kagame and left the party were driven by personal interests.

It’s an open secret that many Rwandans no longer trust what Mr. Evode says in public because they know in private he says and stands for different things.  It follows that Mr Evode deceives Rwandans that he doesn’t know that they know him; in turn Rwandans deceive him that they don’t know that they know him.

“Yabanengeye uburyo banenga ibirimo gukorwa mu gihe nyamara ibyo banenga bari babirimo. Me Evode ni umwe mu bakunze kunenga ubutegetsi bw’u Rwanda ubwo yari mu mahanga, gusa nyuma yo kugaruka mu Rwanda yagizwe Umujyanama mu mategeko wa Minisiteri y’Ubutabera”

Does Evode remember the Kinyarwanda saying that “Ijoro ribara uwariraye” . The people who left RPF are worth criticizing it because they know and were part of the founding members of the RPF that they wanted to change what was then a dictatorial regime of MRND. However, they only changed the guards, because the Kagame regime is far worse than all the previous governments.

Mr. Evode is on the wrong side of history, while he was addressing the inmates in the Rwandan Central Prison kwon as 1930, defining the offence of genocide denial, he said that whoever, committed genocide should confess, but he failed to talk about many Rwanda people who have been incarcerated either by Gacaca or conventional courts.  We remember Evode telling the World on BBC that while he was a judge he witnessed many people who were falsely accused and the prosecutors could just tell the judge that, we don’t have evidence but you know how this system operates, our work is to prosecute and yours is to convict.

Greed and Crocodile tears.

Mr Evode further criticizes the BBC Documentary in the episode of the Untold Story in which Kagame’s human rights violations were not only exposed but also accused of crimes against humanity during and after genocide. Does Evode dispute the people who were massacred in Kibeho? What about the UN Mapping Report in which 6 million Rwandans and Congolese have been exterminated? As a lawyer does he know that the kiliers of Vietnam, Cambodia and Argentina are currently going under constant trials in their respective countries despite their advanced age?

“Me Evode avuga ko bitumvikana ukuntu kugeza uyu munota usanga bamwe mu bagize uruhare muri Jenoside bakomeje gushaka uko bayipfobya, kandi bakabikora bazi aho ukuri guherereye, aha akaba ariho yananenze filime ya BBC ihakana Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu Rwanda”

Does he remember how the government of Habyarimana used to call RPF Inkotanyi? If he does not remember he should consult Valeria   Bemeriki Ati “Icyo gihe nta mahame y’itangazamakuru twakurikizaga, twagenderaga ku bitekerezo by’abanyapolitiki batubwiraga ko tugomba gukora ibishoboka byose tukicyiza abo bitaga abanzi.’’

This is how many people who worked with Habyarimana left his government, does he mean that people like Col. Alex Kanyarengwe the former RPF chairman was wrong? What about Pasteur Bizimungu the former post Genocide president who left a prestigious post of Electrogaz at the time to join RPF.

Mr Evode might be a good qualified lawyer but he is a poor political scientist, he should be advised to stick to his statutory interpretations but not Political science that deals with discipline of systems of government and the analysis of political activity and political behaviour. It would be wrong to think that a good professor of Mathematics could be a good chef in cooking food in Serena Hotel.

As I have said above, Mr. Evode is ignorant on political issues, the people who left RPF or the former RPF officials, he specifically meant the Rwanda National Congress officials, but they are more RPF officials or none RPF officials who initially agreed or worked with RPF but they have now deserted it because of poor human rights record and suffocation of basic freedoms of speech and assembly. The likes of Robert Mugabe (BOB) who have come openly to oppose the Third Term of Kagame and Constitutional amendment, is he not a member and RPF supporter?

But few people would   Expect Evode to tell the truth and few are particularly surprised or affected when lies are exposed, because nothing honest could come from Evode’s mouth. Why? Because this is the universal experience of political prostitutes in most developing democracies, it turns out the answer is related to greed and power hungry. As a result, many political pumpkins make cheap bargain; they sell their soul in order to prolong their survival.

People like Evode  face the choice of openly and dishonestly standing up for what they  don’t believe,  to put it bluntly, they either lie or they lose , now that  Evode  is known  for his  lies right from the time he was in exile , we can surely say that he  hasn’t stopped. In fact, I think it’s reasonable to conclude that the RPF government   and Kagame in particular are using Evode lies and exaggeration to justify the overwhelming majority of their agenda in which they are breaking many popular promises. From Arusha Peace Accord that was vilaoted by Kagame and his promise that for the first time in Rwandan History Power will change from one leader to another peacefully has now died a natural cause.

Jacqueline Umurungi