A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself. Was Rwanda day worth the Hassle?
Kagame's authoritarian government caused fear and uncertainty in Rwanda, "No wander it is only in Rwanda where a neighbour can spy or kill a neighbour, it is only in Rwanda where someone can betray a life time friend can betray or spy on him/her or kill him/her just to appease the authority in the name of being submissive." Everyone is virtually a self proclaimed spy. What a country Rwanda has become?
Saturday's Rwanda Day event epitomised what was in the article "A mind defiled by dictatorship …" last week. The disregard for respect and trust for the Rwandan Communities that attended the event by the organisers was a vindication of that article. It is standing up to this act of mistreating members of the community, like the mistrust that was demonstrated while organising the event, that some people who posted comments against the article came out fighting. It is only in places like the Rwanda of today that any dissent or semblance of challenging the Status Quo is an abomination. In other words people are expected to be too submissive to question any sort of authority. In my opinion this is an act of surrendering the God given intellect that makes humans unique. We cannot all have singularity of views or ideas. I do strongly subscribe to the idea that no one is an authority on ideas, more so if our human limitations are put into perspective. Ironically Paul Kagame, the chief intore, does challenge the status quo, like he has done to the UN and other bodies suffice for the wrong reasons. However while addressing the event he stated that "it is only in Rwanda where people are asked to do something and they do it without questioning", ba NDIYO BWANA, giving the Agaciro Fund scenario as an example. What a paradox??? Can any sensible person accept to go through what these intores, like Lydia, Joan and others who posted the comments, went through yesterday for attending the London Rwanda Day event without questioning the rationale? I don't think any other peoples of this world would have tolerated that inconvenience and humiliation in the name of security checks.
If your authorities can't trust you, then how can you give them the trust in return by giving them the mandate to mistrust you? Only in Rwanda and Rwandans can buy into this fallacy of surrendering their God given liberties, rights, conscious, imagination and reason so cheaply on a silver plate. No wander neighbours killed neighbours to appease the authorities, in the name of being submissive.
It would be interesting to explain the logic or reasoning behind keeping the venue of the Rwanda Day 'secret' to the supposedly supporters of the occasion, and the security checks nightmare these perceived supporters were put through. Did the perceived potential risk warrant the cost of this exercise or was it sheer display of amateurishness on the part of the organisers? Could be that the opposition has scared the organisers to the core or is it the mistakes made by the RPF regime that influenced the agenda? Who are the real enemies of Rwanda? I believe it is the voice of sycophancy that has been developed by our new born 'mwidishi'.
Those who reside in the UK might have witnessed on many occasions state functions where millions of people have attended and the Queen herself presided over. The most recent of them being the Olympics and the Queen's Jubilee. Did anyone go through such nightmare of security checks? I think it was not necessary and way-way above the top. What message did we pass to the Britons involved in the operation, the police, bus drivers and the venue owners? Rwandans have to learn to challenge this backward mistrust of their fellow citizens and emancipate their minds from creating imaginary enemies. The opposition like RNC and FDU are Rwandans like anyone else and are entitled to attend if they wish to.
How can people like Ignatius Mugabo and Mulego, who reside in Rwanda now, be allowed to go away with showing disregard for the hard working many who make the Rwandese UK Community that was supposed to host this event? We need to wake up and emancipate ourselves from these divisive characters. We need answers for the shambles in organising the event; hiding the venue, the unnecessary security checks in the guise of insecurity, the inconvenience of leaving our mobiles and vehicles across the city, and many more. Who is going to pay for the cost of going back to pick our cars from SW4 in the wee hours?
I would like to thank our youth for coming to attend despite the inconvenience. Most people had been put off by the signs of shambles in the organisation coming to the event. Unlike other earlier visits by the President, this one was allowed to be hijacked by mercenaries like John Ngarambe, Ignatius Mugabo and Mulego. These are well known opportunists, 'ba rusahulira mu ndulu". If it was not for our youth persevering, we would have been exposed in numbers attending from UK. So, for our youth Bravo! However next time challenge the status quo and ask for the UK standard of organising rather than the 'banana state like' organisation this time round.
The jury is out there.
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