As dramatic as he has been for all his life, the former Rwandan Prime Minister Celestin Rwigema arrived in attalanta accompanying the Rwandan Ruler Paul Kagame in what they call Rwanda Day. Mr. Celestin Rwigema took to the floor with a microphone requesting the Rwandan ruler to sit down so that he can deliver a package of praises  while wooing the remaining refugees to come back home. He described president Kagame as man of passion, forgiving, democratic, and above all warning those fighting Kagame that they will never unseat the Rwandan Dictator.

Rwigema Celestin

Mr. Rwigema returned to Rwanda in 2001 after almost a decade in USA where he had sought sanctuary accusing Kagame of witch hunting him for political reasons. While in USA he attacked the RPF regime and President Kagame as the ruthless ruler he has ever seen and accusing the RPF of denying other parties competitive politics and a choice to Rwandan people to freely choose their own leaders.

The RPF was quick to send international arrest warrant accusing the former Rwandan premier of genocide and other crimes against humanity. Mr. Rwigema was only saved by the fact that he had served under the current regime for many years and in different capacities which implies that if he had a case to answer he would have been summoned during those days. The USA government concluded that these charges were politically motivated, and they dismissed them.

However, Mr. Rwigema is not only a political animal, but a cunning politician who could gamble with anything. During the 1990s when RPF attacked the Habyarimana government, Mr Rwigema was in MDR and when he took the floor to give a speech to his supporters, he said that I’m Rwigema of MDR not Rwigema of Inyenzi (Cockroaches) differentiating himself from  the RPF Leader Gen Fed Rwigema. This was a pseudo name the Habyarimana government had given the then RPF rebels.  Mr. Rwigema survived all the genocide period and when the RPF government formed what they called a unity government Rwigema emerged as the Minister of Education where he rose to the post of Prime Minister after a brief premiership of Mr Faustin TWAGIRAMUNGU a.k RUKOKOMA.

Mr. Rwigema and some of his colleagues were used by RPF to destroy their own party MDR which had made them political stars and they were absorbed in RPF where MR  Rwigema now represents RPF in the East African Legislative Assembly based in ARUSHA TANZANIA.

Whereas Mr. Rwigema might be playing cat and mouse tricks , so is Mr. Kagame  who knows that marrying a prostitute is not an easy maneuver, he knows very well how he has divorced many marriages of Rwigema likes and when  time  comes   Rwigema will be divorced  again and possibly discarded in the dustbin bin of history.   Kagame is man who does not care for any political adventure; he has divorced all his comrades who helped him to capture power, arrogantly describing them as a BIGARASHA, literally meaning useless cards in the card game.  Kagame is a man who went into his own parliament in broad day light and said that if necessary he will kill a fly with a hammer and few days later his former army Chief of Staff is shot and miraculously survived death, the South African court convicted 4 out of Six would be killers and concluded that the main culprit was Paul Kagame.

Few days later he hatched another plan where he killed his former SPY Chief Col. Patrick Karegeya, the case is still in the court, but make no mistake president Kagame admitted that he will never spare anybody who according to him betrays Rwanda.  In his traditional arrogance style while attending a breakfast thanks giving with some clergy men and other Rwandan leaders in his government without mentioning any names, Mr Kagame told them: “You cannot betray Rwanda and get away with it. There are consequences for betraying your country.”

Kagame further confessed for having not only wished his former comrade death but wanted him dead or alive “I cannot be apologetic about that if you know the grenades that have been thrown on our streets killing Rwandan children,” he said. However, Kagame has been behind these grenades in the Capital and any ware in the country to create a case for those he wants killed or incarcerated, it is worth noting that these grenades were first attributed to FDLR, later Ingabire Victoire, then Ntaganda, all this happened when Col. Karegeya was quiet in exile and his colleague Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa was the Rwanda Ambassador to India..

When Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa joined Col. Patrick Karegeya in South Africa, they started to expose how president Kagamebetrayed the ideals that inspired the 1990-94 bush war with a climax of genocide that cost almost one Million Tutsis and many Hutus accusing him of nurturing undemocratic and intolerant tendencies.

Kagame reacted by adding the dual on the list of those he accused of throwing grenades in the Kigali City and convicted them in absentia of threatening state security and promoting ethnic divisions, in connection with a series of grenade attacks in the capital, Kigali.  But there was no a mathematical link between the Ingabire, FDLR , Ntaganda with Col. Karegeya and Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa etc, because these people did not know each other and the accusations of Kagame lacked both legal and factual evidence.

Kagame further confirmed that, he was behind Karegeya’s death and threatened to kill even more who will be perceived to be potential political challengers “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.

Did Kagame own RPF? Was RPF Kagme’s creation? President Kagame just hijacked and usurped the powers of RPF and has lost the cause. In fact if there are people who owned the RPF cause were Gen, Kayumba Nyamwasa and some of his colleagues who are either  extinct or are politically impotent. Kagame has now jumped on another wagon of even killing everybody who is relative to those he calls enemies or those perceived to be sympathizers. Just recently we witnessed many dead bodies wrapped in plastic bags tied hands back (Kandoya) thrown in the Akagera River and then ended up in Lake Rweru. When Kagame’s ugly murders were exposed by BBC and VOA, and other international media, he ordered his security forces to go and exhume them. This is the kind of a person Mr. Celestin Rwigema calls, a man of passion, who forgives, democratic, etc. On the contrary it’s the opposite and Mr Rwigema knows it and Kagame Knows Rwigema as a political prostitute. It remains to be seen how long this re marriage will last, but make no mistake, it’s a matter of time and they divorce again.

Jacqueline Umurungi.