In summary: We  continue to dig deep on how Rudasingwa’s self-centred style of leadership caused divisions following a letter dated Sun, 18/09/2011 written by Noble Marara,  begging for the building and strengthening of institutions.

Rudasingwa

Dear Maj Theogene Rudasingwa and my fellow members of our beloved organisation RNC, I would like to  thank you for the work that you have been doing for the last couple of weeks which proved as an impact in terms of exposing Kagame’s Government that seems weakened.

I believe that you have been working hard to highlight some of the areas that need strengthening in order to keep up with the demand of strong institutions that our country desperately deserves.

First of all brothers and sisters, I understand that organisations and political parties work under the umbrella of policies and laws, including being honest between members and being empathetic towards each other. These empathies and honesty between members can only be achieved once we have policies in place.

Allow me as a team member to suggest that, RNC should implement the policies and hold those responsible to account for their actions, most importantly; organisations should provide a means of how to work together and guide every participant in making sure that there are no divisions.

The capacity of parties to discharge these functions effectively should be controlled by the regulatory environment, which is created by the leadership that is not self centred but with the ideas of all the followers.

This should include both the external and or internal policies and laws that govern the entire organisation.

The question now is the level of effectiveness that the RNC organisation performs. It is obvious that a lot has been done by the member’s voluntary efforts however I personally deem it the right necessary time we need to have some governing policies and or statute in place if we are to have a greater impact against Kagame.

There are still significant challenges, especially in countries where RNC face low or eroding grassroots like Rwanda.

There are also problematic issues in countries where the RPF is still believed to be a saviour of our nation. We need to ask the question:

  • Is this dominating force the right vision for the Rwandese future?
  • I believe that there is a challenge of planting more cadres plus recruiting members.
  • I believe that we are still weak in terms of finance and we have done less in international relations.
  • We have a crisis of public confidence due to the continued imprisonment of opposition members plus the intimidation of those thought to be our followers inside the country. But we are not working together as necessary. This has caused the rise of questions in most of our high profile supporters in western countries.

There is considerable variation in the role, function, organizational structure, and philosophy of different types, it is evident that RNC has done little to finalise the above mentioned areas

We need to have an organisational structure between bottom-up ‘mass-branch’ versus top-down ‘caucus-cadre’ structures)

Members should have the (right) chance to elect those who are able to deliver for the best of the country, party, and organisation. We need to consider the competence of the persons being elected in any position if we are aiming to achieve the quantity and quality of the delivery.

If these have been acquired without my knowledge as a member I will have been left out, and so I kindly request that we get a proper discussion. If those areas are fully covered then we will need our leaders to work hard on informing us about our achievements, strengths and weaknesses.

Noble Marara