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Le Premier ministre Bernard Makuza reste en place, tout comme le ministre des Affaires étrangères Charles Murigande et le ministre de la Défense le général Marcel Gatsinzi, précise un communiqué de la présidence.
Christophe Bazivamo, jusqu'alors ministre de l'Administration locale, remplace Jean de Dieu Ntiruhungwa comme ministre de l'Intérieur, selon le communiqué, qui ne précise pas la nouvelle affectation de M. Ntiruhungwa. Protais Musoni, jusqu'ici ministre d'Etat pour la Bonne gouvernance, remplace M. Bazivamo à l'Administration locale.
Monday, March 20, 2006
IBIHWIHWISWA: Where's MP Brigitte Tuyishime?
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Rwanda: MPs Query Colleague's Escape
The New Times (Kigali)
March 20, 2006 Posted to the web March 20, 2006James MunyanezaKigali
Parliamentarians have expressed serious concern over the alleged escape of their former colleague Brigitte Tuyishime, who allegedly slipped out of the country late last year.During last Thursday's plenary session, the legislators said they were disturbed that a person whose criminal dossier was being prepared could easily evade border checks without notice.
Henriette Sebera Mukamurangwa (Gikongoro) put to task a panel comprised of Fidel Mitsindo (RPF) and Mediatrice Uwiteguye (RPF), seeking to know whether reports that Tuyishime had fled were valid.
The duo was presenting a report on the security situation in the country following a tour by the Standing Committee on Security and Sovereignty last year. Mitsindo chairs the committee, while Uwiteguye was assisting him to present the report.
In response, Mitsindo urged members to recommend that the government issues an international arrest warrant against the former lawmaker.
"I suggest that we ask the relevant authorities to process an arrest warrant. It is a matter of concern," Mitsindo said.
Though many MPs said they were 'deeply disturbed' by the escape, the motion was put on hold.
Tuyishime resigned her parliamentary seat on December 15, 2005, following her alleged scandalous attack on genocide survivors during a working tour in the then Butare province (now the Southern province).
She reportedly told members of the Standing Committee on Security and Sovereignty, on November 4, during a breakfast at Fauco Hotel that: "If only something can rid us of survivors, we can be peaceful; they are merely five."
According to the Committee members who were with her on the trip, Tuyishime was reacting to an unlinked discussion regarding a woman in the then Gisenyi province, whose child was allegedly defiled by a genocide survivor several years ago, but who was instead briefly imprisoned without the due process of law in respect to the defiled kid.
A few days after The New Times broke the news of Tuyishime's alleged derogative remarks on December 16, 2005 under the title, 'New Genocide scandal unfolds', her mobile phone was persistently switched off up to the time we went to press (Saturday evening).
Sources say Tuyishime vanished during the festive season, a few days after recording a statement with the Judicial Police. When The New Times visited her home in Kicukiro district on December 27, relatives said she 'had travelled to her home in Gisenyi for New Year celebrations.'
Speaking to The New Times, last Saturday, Police Spokesman Superintendent Theos Badege was non-committal on the possibility of Tuyishime's escape.
"What I can confirm is that at least she is not in police's hands. I only hear rumours that she might have escaped," Badege said Saturday, adding however, that the reports about the former MP fleeing the country would not derail police investigations.
"Once the dossier is complete, we will go through the due process to have her apprehended," he said and added that even if it was true she fled, "today; it is very easy to arrest her through Interpol."
"Nowadays, it's simple to have a fugitive apprehended from any country. We just have to conclude the dossier and then workout the modalities of arrest," Badege said.
He further observed that the police could not have arrested Tuyishime at a time when incriminating evidence against her was still scanty.
However, the Prosecutor General Jean de Dieu Mucyo said arresting a suspect from a foreign country is not as simple as when the suspect is at home.
"Certainly, if she fled, the situation is a bit complicated," he told The New Times by telephone on Saturday.
He said that his office was yet to receive the dossier, adding that Prosecution was ready to take an appropriate action "upon receipt of the dossier."
Giving an example of the recent arrest and deportation of one Sebastian, a defaulter who had fled to Malawi with millions of money belonging to the Bank of Commerce, Development and Industry (BCDI) 'and various individuals', the duo said the world was now united in bringing criminals to book wherever they are.
The two could however, not say which country they thought Tuyishime had fled to. But unconfirmed reports indicate that she could be in Belgium.
The National Electoral Commission (NEC) boss Prof. Chrysologue Karangwa, last Thursday, announced Claire Kayirangwa (UDPR) as Tuyishime's replacement in the Chamber of Deputies.
Kayirangwa took oath last Friday alongside new Cabinet entrants Ambassador Stanislas Kamanzi (infrastructure), Sheikh Musa Fazil Harerimana (internal security) and Vincent Karega, the State Minister for Industry and Investment Promotion.posted by IGIHUHA
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From: Nikozitambirwa < nikozita...@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 19, 2005 11:54 PM
Subject: [Great-Lakes] La soupe nauseabonde de la 2eme Republique au Rwanda - Aloys NSEKALIJE vs Thomas NGARUYE
To: RWANDANET < rwan...@yahoogroups.com>, DHR < democracy_h...@yahoogroupes.fr>, GREAT-LAKES < great...@yahoogroups.com>, UMUSOTO < umu...@yahoogroups.com>
Netters,Sans me prononcer sur la véracité ni le bien-fondé de l'accusation portée par NSEKALIJE Mitsindo Fidèle (fils de NSEKALIJE Aloys) contre madame Brigitte TUYISHIME (fille de Thomas NGARUYE), je puis vous dire, et je pèse mes mots, que je ne connais pas, sur cette planète Terre, deux familles qui se haïssent autant que les familles Aloys NSEKALIJE et Thomas NGARUYE.Dans les années 1980 (plus précisément entre 1981 et 1988), le Colonel Aloys NSEKALIJE, camarade du 5 juillet, membre du Comité Central du MRND, plusieurs fois ministre, en voulait à mort à Thomas NGARUYE parce que celui-ci était plus populaire que lui dans les communes du Bugoyi.Vers 1985, le hasard a fait qu'une des filles du Colonel Aloys NSEKALIJE et une autre de Thomas NGARUYE se sont retrouvées dans la même classe (elles avaient le même âge) en 2ème année du secondaire au Lycée Notre Dame d'Afrique de Nyundo. Quelques semaines avant les examens, la fille d'Aloys NSEKALIJE aurait perdu un des ses cahiers; le Colonel fut immédiatement alerté; il vint lui-même régler le problème de sa fille. La plus embarrassée de toutes était la Directrice du Lycée. A la question de savoir pourquoi elle avait osé mettre la fille du Colonel dans la même classe que celle de Thomas NGARUYE, elle n'a rien su répondre. Le bourgmestre de Kanama et moi-même participions à cette entrevue inhabituelle. Nous trouvions tous cette question saugrenue mais personne n'a osé dire quoi que ce soit. A la fin de cette entrevue, le Colonel Aloys NSEKALIJE a décidé séance tenante la fermeture de cette classe de 2ème année du secondaire et la dispersion des élèves qui la composaient dans d'autres écoles secondaires du pays. Heureusement que la Directrice était une Belge. Elle aurait payé cher cette "faute lourde" que lui reprochait le Colonel Aloys NSEKALIJE d'avoir mis dans la même classe sa fille et celle du député Thomas NGARUYE.En 1988, il fut convenu (dans les hautes sphères du MRND) que le député Thomas NGARUYE devait cesser d'être député. Mais comme c'était lui qui obtenait toujours le plus grand nombre de voix dans les communes du Bugoyi, on ne pouvait y parvenir qu'en trichant. Après la proclamation des résultats, Thomas NGARUYE a directement introduit un recours au Conseil d'Etat. Avant que celui-ci ne statue sur ledit recours, Thomas NGARUYE a reçu des menaces de mort et a dû retirer immédiatement sa requête. Il fut alors nommé fonctionnaire à la Préfecture de Ruhengeri. Quelques mois plus tard, il mourut dans un "accident" suspect de la circulation (du même genre que celui qui emporta l'abbé Silvio Sindambiwe, mademoiselle Felicula Nyiramutarambirwa, le Dr. François Muganza... et bien d'autres).Il ne s'agit là que des antécédents à cette affaire survenue près de vingt ans après entre le fils d'Aloys NSEKALIJE et la fille de Thomas NGARUYE, tous deux parlemantaires du FPR comme vingt ans plus tôt leurs illustres pères étaient tous deux parlementaires du MRND.Même s'il n'y a aucun lien entre ce qui s'est passé il y a vingt ans et ce qui se passe aujourd'hui, on ne peut que constater la fatalité qui poursuit ces deux familles pour le meilleur, et surtout pour le pire. J'espère que ce Fidèle Mitsindo NSEKALIJE a d'autres témoins directs ayant entendu ces propos attribués à madame Brigitte TUYISHIME.Uwarose nabi burinda bucya.
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seulement. Jamais le contraire." (Mustafaj)
====================================================----- Original Message -----From: John RukumburaSent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:30 PMSubject: [rwanda-l] Kagame upset by Genocide scandal
Kagame upset by Genocide scandal
By James Munyaneza Monday, 19 December 2005
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President Paul Kagame, who is also the Chairman of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) on Thursday night held an emergency meeting with Senators and RPF Deputies over the Genocide-related squabbling that has caused a huge divide among MPs, The New Times has reliably learnt. According to a reliable source the marathon indoor meeting, Embattled: Brigitte Tuyishime who resigned from the parliament after allegedly uttering derogative words against Genocide survivors (Photo/G. Barya).
which was held at the party's Secretariat offices in Kimihurura, came only hours after the resignation of Brigitte Tuyishime (MP-RPF) from the Chamber of Deputies, ostensibly over scandalous utterances she allegedly made against Genocide survivors.
The source who attended the meeting which started around 7:00pm and continued past midnight said Kagame was troubled and shocked at the continued existence of genocide ideologies among high profile leaders, particularly RPF members.
The source, who sought anonymity, also said the issue of the genocide ideology dominated the deliberations and that the participants discussed Genocide charges levelled against individual top leaders including Speaker Alfred Mukezamfura.
"We discussed a lot of Genocide-related cases, even that of the Speaker. The ideology is a concern to the party leadership and members as a whole," the source told this reporter on Friday.
Asked what position was taken particularly on the Speaker, the source said: "What the President emphasized was for us to work dedicatedly within the limits of the law and that nobody was above the law."
Since Mukezamfura, the third highest official in the country, made his first appearance before a Gacaca Tribunal at Nyamirambo Regional Stadium on 11th June 2005, during which he denied participating in the 1994 Genocide, he has increasingly lost respect among deputies, with some calling on him to step down. The MPs say the allegations robbed the Speaker of his moral authority in the 80-member multiparty House.
The Speaker, who is also the President of Centrist Democratic Party (PDC), is accused of inciting the public to commit Genocide through several articles published in 1994 in Imvaho, a government-owned Kinyarwanda language newspaper, which is circulated countrywide.
All the RPF Members of Parliament The New Times talked to confirmed the meeting with Kagame apart from the Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, Denis Polisi, who denied the said meeting took place.
"I don't know about it. I don't know about it," Polisi, who is also RPF's International Relations Commissioner, told The New Times at Parliament on Friday.
However, RPF MPs Jean Marie Vianney Gatabazi, Connie Bwiza and Mediatrice Uwiteguye, had all earlier said the meeting was held. The latter is accused by some MPs of having attempted to cover-up for Tuyishime's statement.
Gatabazi said: "It's true we met the President as chairman of the political organization to which we belong. The meeting was constructive."
Bwiza said the issue of Genocide ideology was on the 'front page' of the agenda for the indoor meeting.
"As an organization that did not only lead the struggle for total liberation but also stopped genocide, it's obviously concerned at these cases of genocide ideology. We cannot afford to keep a deaf ear to such incidents," she told this reporter at Parliament on Friday.
She however, denied the meeting discussed Speaker Mukezamfura's case in particular. "We analyzed the issue (of genocide ideology) in a wider context. There is nothing that points to him (Speaker) articulately besides the Gacaca process which is taking its due process," she said.
Bwiza said during the meeting, President Kagame was "obviously upset and shocked" by the recent unfolding of an incident in which party member Tuyishime allegedly said Genocide survivors should be wiped off the face of the planet earth.
"He was deeply astonished (by that case) because RPF is a democratic party, whose members have enough democracy to show their sides. He asked why we don't openly declare our position (of the party's national unity ideology) other than playing double standards," she said.
On November 4 at Fauco Hotel, during an official tour conducted around Butare province by members of the Standing Committee on Security, Tuyishime, who has been a legislator for over six years is said to have told her colleagues on the committee that the survivors were a stumbling block to the attainment of peace the country.
"Icyadukiza abacitse kw'icumu twagira amahoro, ni batanu gusa, (loosely translated to mean: If only something can rid us of survivors we can be peaceful; they are merely five)," she was quoted by the Committee President Fidele Mitsindo, as saying.
It was not readily established whether the embattled former MP would be prosecuted as the responsible officials could not be accessed on phone by press time on Saturday.