Embassy: JK has never met with rebels
By David Kisanga
31st January 2014

News of Rwanda story fabricated, malicious`
The government has said that it is saddened by the malicious and false
reports published over the weekend by a Rwandan government owned
newspaper- 'News of Rwanda' that President Jakaya Kikwete is
supporting and holding meetings with members of the rebel group
opposed by the Rwandan government.
In a statement from the Directorate of Presidential Communication
written by Tanzania's Ambassador to Rwanda, Francis Mwaipaja said the
reports are nothing but fabrications by editors of the said
publication with malicious intention to attack the Tanzanian President
and create an impression that Tanzania is working with enemies and
groups opposed to the government of Rwanda.
The statement said 'News of Rwanda' which has gained unenviable
notoriety for reporting and publishing malicious, dangerous and
perpetual propaganda, quoting unnamed sources claims, among other
things that two founding members of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC)
including Dr Theogene Rudasingwa secretly met with top commanders of
the Democratic Forces for Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) in Dar es
Salaam.
Mwaipaja said Dr Rudasingwa and adviser, Condo Gervais together with
top commanders of FDLR, namely Lt Col Wilson Irategeka and Col Hamadi
were not in Tanzania last week.
"Indeed, our records do not show that they visited Tanzania in recent
years," he said, adding that the Embassy of Tanzania in Rwanda does
not take lightly these allegations by the 'News of Rwanda' considering
that the publication is dominant in Rwanda.
Mwaipaja stressed that there was no meeting of any kind at any
official residences of President Kikwete, either in Dar es Salaam or
in Dodoma.
He said President Kikwete has never met any of those people mentioned
anywhere, not in Tanzania or abroad.
According to Mwaipaja, 'News of Rwanda' claimed that President Kikwete
met with the rebel leaders on January 23, 2014 while on that date the
President was attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in
Davos, Switzerland. He said the Immigration Department in Tanzania
does not have a record of such people entering or leaving the country.
According to Mwaipaja, the former Prime Minister of Rwanda, Faustin
Twagiramungu was also not in Tanzania for the mentioned mission and
did not attend the meeting with representatives of RNC and FDLR as no
meeting of such nature took place in Dar es Salaam or anywhere in
Tanzania as alleged by the paper.
"The Tanzania Immigration Department has never issued any travel
document to any Rwandan citizen including those claimed in the 'News
of Rwanda' that they traveled to Mozambique using Tanzanian passports
on or around December 20th 2013," said the Ambassador.
He said it is not the business of Tanzania to issue travel documents
to citizens of other countries.
However, he said, the said report and other similar reports published
in recent weeks by the 'News of Rwanda' are not only untrue, baseless
and mere fabrication but also dangerous and threatening the excellent
and sound diplomatic and social relations between the neighbouring
countries which are both members of the East African Community (EAC).
He said President Kikwete is deeply hurt by the lies and his humble
advice to the editors of the publication is to stop fabricating claims
which could potentially create and fuel animosity and confusion among
the people of the two neighbouring countries.
He said the reports claimed by the Rwandan newspaper can only sour the
atmosphere at a time when President Kikwete and President Paul Kagame
of Rwanda had agreed in Kampala, Uganda to foster friendly relations.
Photo: Tanzania's Ambassador to Rwanda, Francis Mwaipaja
http://www.ippmedia.com/media/picture/large/Francis%20Mwaipaja(1).jpg
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/?l=64303
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