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I find myself being like a virtual teacher because I fear that our country may end up ripped apart if some Rwandans choose to seek for quick results rather than looking beyond of what they see and know. Today we see many things happening in Rwanda and definitely the current political, economic and social development in Rwanda are not nice to those who wish freedom and democracy but there is a great risk that must be minimized if we Rwandans want to achieve durable and long term freedom and democracy and a risk that would result in removing an oppressor by force because removing an oppressor through democratic channels is no longer a possible alternative.

In my earlier notes I wrote how both the reign of Habyarimana and Kagame have marginalised our people in exchange of the control of power. Many methods have been used by these two regimes including jailing, torturing, and sending people into exiles and due to their ability to manipulate our national security forces, every challenger to these regime has been branded enemy of states and as a consequence, whoever dares to challenge their leadership gets killed mysteriously, get jailed, get sent into exile or get strangled and those who are still alive, they feel it is just a matter of time as some of these presidents claimed.

Focusing on this moment, Rwanda is ruled by not only someone we can simply call a leader but a special leader. He is a leader who fought his ways up from the jungle of foreign land in Uganda to face 4 year blood wars in Rwanda to remove his monologue dictator Habyarimana and destroy his entire political system and installing his own. In that way the only makes the current president special is that he can control the government, the parliament and most importantly the army.

If any leader has an influence over the parliament, the government and the army, he becomes untouchable and since the end of Rwanda’s monarchy, only two leaders (Habyarimana and Kagame) have been into that capacity of controlling both the government and the military. A leader who controls both the army and the government and in additional the parliament, cannot be removed from power through democratic means, it always requires war and a sacrificed blood.

If a leader can control and have an influence on the army, that leader controls the people and if he can control the people, that leader will be able to control the parliament. It is the case in Rwanda at the moment because we have a national leader but we don’t have national army and national parliament which does not represent the will of the people but the will of the leader hence laws and other security measures taken should satisfy the will of the leader not the will of the people.

But my vision may be different to how other people would see is that beyond these brutal leadership, these is total freedom and democracy to all sons and daughters of our nation. Beyond the brutality, there is a hope and beyond torture, there is a life because a dictator is always like glue that holds everything together and when he passes on, people may choose to unite or get succumbed and break into pieces and they become vulnerable to anything that comes in their way and in that way they harm themselves saving the nation.

The way I have a hope that beyond Kagame, there is a freedom is that what I see being done in Rwanda is not solidifying the current political system but an ongoing struggle to keep coalition together and control army, people and power . Beyond Kagame, no other leader will be able t do what is being done today, no other Rwandan leader will be able to control the army,the parliament and the people and that is my reason to call him not just a leader but a special leader with a unique ability.

After President Kagame, as long as he will take, there will be no coalition, people will start to fight their places in the government not only being rewarded with government jobs so that they don’t speak, that choice will vanish, the national army will be less baised because those who worked with President Kagame during the liberation war will be almost all of them retired and when the coalition breaks up, a president after Kagame will find it difficult to control the people, the parliament and influence the national army into politics and if that happens, a fair game based on democratic values and freedom will commence.

That is my hope, what is yours? You can answer me by sending me an email: info@ndindamahina.com or by contacting me here.