Paul Kagame is very Corrupt

When I left Rwanda, my intention was to reunite my family, start a new life. Forget politics, the military and diplomacy –areas where I had previously served. I thought I would go into academics, consultancy or something different and actually take a lasting holiday from President Kagame with whom I had served for the last 16 years. Unfortunately, this was not to be. My name is always in the media for all wrong reasons.

Kayumba Nyamwasa and Paul Kagame

After my departure, President Kagame addressed a press conference where he labelled Patrick Karegeya and I as terrorists; while passing out cadets officers in Gako, he called us thieves; in Parliament he called us flies whom he will crush with a hammer; with Jeune Afrique he called me a traitor and with Monitor he called us reckless unaccountable officers.

Rwanda is all about Paul Kagame and not the people

For the record
For purposes of clarity and for the sake of our families, friends, countrymen and all those who read your publication, I am forced to respond to put the record straight. In my presentation, I may make comparisons and analogies but they are by no means intended to offend. Otherwise silence may mean consent.

President Kagame is not honest when he alleges that we ran away from accountability. [Our] disagreements [are] centred on governance, tolerance, insensitivity, intrigue and betrayal of our colleagues.

Furthermore, it is my considered opinion and strong convictions that we struggled for a country where there would be freedom of speech and association. On the contrary, towards the end of the last century, these ideals started shifting and the focus was no longer the country and Party but President Kagame.

This phenomenon was nurtured and promoted by opportunists and sycophants. I despised the trend of events and the category of people involved. The meeting prior to my departure was despicable and I held a number of people involved in contempt having transformed the RPF into a party where its main pre-occupation is furthering intrigue and hatred.

President Kagame should have told you that in 2003, together with another colleague, we asked to leave the Army and Government because we felt we did not fit in the scheme of things. He objected and expressed fear that if we left – we would cause trouble outside. I kept soldiering on hoping that there would be some sense of reason and may be things may change somehow. In retrospect, maybe I was naive or trusted too much or continued in self-denial like some of my friends are today.

Accountability for all
President Kagame accuses us of escaping from accountability. We believe accountability is paramount but what we do not agree with is that an unaccountable person should victimise his perceived opponents in the name of accountability. If accountability is going to be used as a political weapon to frame perceived opponents, then it ceases to be meaningful or useful.

Accountability should begin from the top, beginning with the President before he demands accountability from his subordinates. In Rwanda, the Head of State is the most unaccountable person and has no moral authority to demand accountability from anybody. In Rwanda, President Kagame is the institutions.

I would wish to illustrate my point as follows: Firstly since President Kagame likes to talk about accountability to institutions, I would expect him to have appeared before Parliament to account for owning two XR Executive Jets which he hires to himself and makes at least two trips to America a month to receive fictitious honours, doctorates for himself and his wife or visiting his children.

Costly trips
The minimum cost for each trip is close to $1 million. The two aircraft were bought by government money and registered in the names of a pseudo company. He should appear before the Ombudsman together with his adviser and an embassy official to explain where they got $100 million to buy the two executive aircrafts. The minister of finance should tell Parliament why government should service privately-owned aircraft. Does this reflect zero tolerance of corruption which the President constantly enforces? [The Rwandan government says it leases the jets from a private company in which private Rwandan nationals own a stake – Editor]. Secondly President Kagame should explain to Parliament who is the owner of the embassy building in London and his connection with the company in whose names the embassy building is registered.

Gallery politics

Thirdly he should explain to the party and to the people of Rwanda why he heads a party without a treasurer and how much money RPF has since it owns all the biggest companies in the country and contributions of party members.

Fourthly, why was Arab Contractors simultaneously constructing his private residence in Muhazi together with the Ministry of Defence using government facilities? Minister Bikoro had to account for one container of tiles, how much money did President Kagame pay to Rwanda Revenue Authority for construction materials for his own houses?

President Kagame’s accountability demands are a farce, demagogue and playing to the gallery. Of course acting tough and ‘spitting fire’ insulates him from the inquisitive eye. However, everyone knows it is meant to intimidate, dupe the international community and create impressions for donors. To sustain all this, he employs intrigue, treachery, manipulation and betrayal. This was my point of departure.

As far as I am concerned, I always made sure that my property declaration forms were submitted to the Ombudsman on time and fortunately I have all the receipts to that effect. I have never appeared on the list of government officials suspended for lack of accountability. President Kagame would have been too happy to have me arrested if there was any irregularity in my declarations.

Turning point
President Kagame is on record commending me as an exemplary officer when I was Army Chief of Staff and served for uninterrupted five years as ambassador in India. At what stage did I become an unaccountable officer and terrorist? How can he turn around to ask for accountability after 10 years? Col. Karegeya served as intelligence chief for an uninterrupted 10 years. President Kagame called him nothing, useless and now terrorist! At what stage did President Kagame learn that Col. Karegeya was useless and nothing after all those years? The people of Rwanda are used to this mudslinging. Last month he appointed Commander of the Reserve Force and arrested him for abuse of office after one week. When did investigations take place? Another general is arrested for committing immoral acts – who is the complainant?

History at glance
During President Kayibanda’s regime [1962 – 1973], political dissenters were labelled ideological traitors. Later, President Habyarimana [1973 – 1994] would say that those escaping to exile were afraid of peace and tranquillity. In the 1980s President Habyarimana would remind Rwandans and the international community that his government was registering the highest GDP in the region, an island of peace and no one should talk about the democratic deficit that existed.

These days President Kagame accuses his perceived opponents of genocide ideology or terrorism and corruption. Everyone is expected to sing that Kigali is clean and we have developed. Do we develop without consciousness? I am afraid Rwanda has not changed a bit in terms of leadership.

President Kagame has personalised the Gen. Kayumba/Col. Karegeya issue. This is out of a guilty conscience. If people who participated in the struggle from day one and served at the highest level of the Army and Security are not colleagues in the Rwandan context, who is? President Kagame questions if he is running a dictatorship why was I not arrested straight away.

Ugandan context
Since he said this in the Monitor largely for the Ugandan readership, let me remind you that before Ben Kiwanuka died [in 1972], he had met Amin and so did Bishop Luwum. Since Amin met these two and others before killing them does it make him a democrat? Does Kagame imply that those who run away from Amin in 1978 had no justification and should have stayed? Furthermore, he alleges that the people who run away from 1995 and 1996 were maybe running away from me. Does he imply that he was not in charge at that time? Now that I have gone, let us see if there will be an exodus of returnees from exile. Kagame talks like someone who is wronged and aggrieved.

Tale of two families
How does he justify the incarceration of my wife and children in New Delhi, evicting them out of the embassy residence and dispossessing them of passports containing the multiple entry visas? To which institution did they have to account? If he had problems with me, what about my family?

While he was doing that to my family he was preparing a very expensive journey to West Point [military academy in New York] to see his son funded by a government we both worked to put in power. The irony is that in Rwanda there is only one family!

I saved President Kagame’s life twice during the struggle when everyone else had abandoned him in Nkana and Kanyantanga. Where were all those who are telling him that I am a traitor? History will tell who betrayed who. Those who served with us know the truth including those who opportunistically vilify me most.

Why choose exile
President Kagame said he does not understand and cannot put his finger on the reasons why people run to exile. Surely the President must be having a very short memory; his entire family spent more than 30 years in exile. Does he insinuate that his parents were adventurers when they left Rwanda and somehow they gained their senses after 1994?

The answer is simple. In a democracy, people resort to courts of law for conflict resolution and in a dictatorship, people run for their dear lives. If a leader does not know why his/her citizens are running away then he is incapable of governing.”

President Kagame has personalised the Gen. Kayumba/Col. Karegeya issue. This is out of a guilty conscience. If people who participated in the struggle from day one and served at the highest level of the Army and Security are not colleagues in the Rwandan context, who is? President Kagame questions if he is running a dictatorship why was I not arrested straight away.

<strong>Ugandan context</strong>

Since he said this in the Monitor largely for the Ugandan readership, let me remind you that before Ben Kiwanuka died [in 1972], he had met Amin and so did Bishop Luwum. Since Amin met these two and others before killing them does it make him a democrat? Does Kagame imply that those who run away from Amin in 1978 had no justification and should have stayed? Furthermore, he alleges that the people who run away from 1995 and 1996 were maybe running away from me. Does he imply that he was not in charge at that time? Now that I have gone, let us see if there will be an exodus of returnees from exile. Kagame talks like someone who is wronged and aggrieved.
How does he justify the incarceration of my wife and children in New Delhi, evicting them out of the embassy residence and dispossessing them of passports containing the multiple entry visas? To which institution did they have to account? If he had problems with me, what about my family?

While he was doing that to my family he was preparing a very expensive journey to West Point [military academy in New York] to see his son funded by a government we both worked to put in power. The irony is that in Rwanda there is only one family!

I saved President Kagame’s life twice during the struggle when everyone else had abandoned him in Nkana and Kanyantanga. Where were all those who are telling him that I am a traitor? History will tell who betrayed who. Those who served with us know the truth including those who opportunistically vilify me most.
President Kagame said he does not understand and cannot put his finger on the reasons why people run to exile. Surely the President must be having a very short memory; his entire family spent more than 30 years in exile. Does he insinuate that his parents were adventurers when they left Rwanda and somehow they gained their senses after 1994?

The answer is simple. In a democracy, people resort to courts of law for conflict resolution and in a dictatorship, people run for their dear lives. If a leader does not know why his/her citizens are running away then he is incapable of governing.”

source: monitor

1. 

   admin says:

   June 15, 2010 at 4:20 pm

   Kagame’s Body Guard Escapes

   Tuesday, 15 June 2010
   A member of Rwanda’s elite Presidential Republican Guard (PPG) survived death in what could be compared to a Hollywood Movie.

   President Paul Kagame’s bodyguard, Innocent Kalisa who is used to travelling in a First Class if not on a presidential jet, for the first time was sealed in a vegetable container onto a plane and ferried to a safer country after escaping from a Safe House [illegal Torture Chamber] in Kigali, capital of Rwanda.

   “I really don’t know how I got here, I must have been the luckiest person because the two days I spent in a Safe House, 20 people, which is an average of 10 per day were executed,” the former Republic Guard member, Kalisa [army No. AP98709] who had served in the unit since 2001 narrated to this reporter.

   Like many Army Officers in Kigali who are in great nervousness after President Kagame’s recent accusations against his former allies to be behind and of their involvement in subversion activities against his country.

   Barely months to the country’s presidential elections, has Kigali remained hostile to both the opposition and members of the armed forces who have previously had any slight knowledge about the renegade generals who fled the country into exile since last year. With handcuffs still on Kalisa’s hand and leg, wearing a skin of fear on his face including the fresh wounds allegedly inflicted to him by his tormentors in a safe house at Kabeza a Kigali suburb. “There were blood stains on the carpet; I knew that any time I was going to be killed,” says Kagame’s former close bodyguard. Kalisa adds: “The next night in the safe house, one army Maj. came into one of the rooms and questioned me, he promised me the worst the following day, if I don’t tell him the truth.”

   “When he left that is when I started planning how I can get-out of the hell. Using the knowledge I got from various course I managed to escape,” Pte Kalisa narrates his nightmare to this reporter.

   According to Pte Kalisa, the only clue to his suffering, he says: “They started suspecting me when I was demobilized and visited my brother in Uganda where I was planning to get back for further studies.”

   “My brother who was in the army and served in the same unit before me, advised me to go further studies like him,” says Pte Kalisa, adding that: “Apart from visiting Uganda, I have no knowledge about those people [Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa and Col. Patrick Karegyeya], it is just because the president no longer trust anybody.”

   “At the moment, he [president] may not even trust his own shadow,” says the former bodyguard.

   Pte. Kalisa says his only problem is that he couldn’t give information about the renegade army generals who recently fled the country to exile. Former Chief of Staff and Ambassador to India, Lt. Gen. Kayumba fled the country in February and joined the former Rwanda’s Chief Spy, Col. Patrick Karegyeya who fled in 2007. Others who fled the country, include: Theoneste Mushindashaka, Senator Stanley Safari, Lt. Col. Sam Baguma, Capt. Eliphaz Ndikuyezu, Capt. Claude Bizimungu, Capt. John Wuwintari, Capt. John-Bosco Muhizi, Capt. Theobal Gakumba, Capt. John Ontabuka and Jean Pierre Kagubare, all fled the country to seek refuge in exile.

   Having served as a close bodyguard and his vast knowledge, Kalisa’s fear could be seen wearing his face as he says he doesn’t know why he’s been tortured and linked to the people he has no contact. Kalisa wonders: “I started serving as bodyguard in 2001, I held responsibilities like close bodyguard for the family; ie the president, the First Lady and the children especially at school.

   “I had never harboured any bad motive against them. But why now?” asks Kalisa, adding that: “I have in the past travelled with the President to African States like Tanzania, Mwanza, Zambia-Lusaka, South Africa Durban why me at this time?

   “Kalisa? If he is the Kalisa, I know, he was working with us but he escaped from prison,” without giving reason why in the first place, Pte Kalisa was arrested, Colonel Tom Byabagamba who is the overall commander of President Kagame’s Republican Guard, told this reporter in an exclusive telephone interview. Sounding familiar with the whole issue and giving no reasons why Kalisa was arrested, Col. Byabagamba added: “That guy is on a wanted list of our police, you can contact the Police spokesperson, and they are conversant with his case.” Col. Byabagamba neither did he mention or single out a single charge levelled against his former subordinate.

   However, the Rwanda’s Republican Guard commander, Col. Byabagamba referred this reporter to the country’s Police Spokesman, Eric Kayiranga who said: “Right now I’m in a stadium, I’m following the defense processions, I can’t give the details.”

   “Yes, he is a wanted person,” said the Police spokesman Mr Kayiranga when pressed if he was aware of Pte Kalisa’s criminal alleged charges. Without giving the details of charges against Kalisa, the police spokesman claimed: “Even through our newspapers he has been mentioned as a criminal, he should be arrested and brought to face justice.”

   “I’m not able to give the details, but there is a file in the criminal justice through the Interpol [International Police], he should appear before the court,” Mr Kayiranga told this reporter in a telephone interview, adding that: “I’m not in the office to tell you the case details. The country’s Police spokesman, who said that the man is a wanted person with already a file in the criminal justice through the Interpol, also couldn’t mention the nature of the charge saying that: “By the time you get back to me, I would have gathered all the information about him and I will provide you with the detailed information.”

   President Kagame who has been praised overseas for social and economic progress, has embarked on clamping down on the opposition politicians and the media ahead of the August Presidential elections. Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is under house arrest in Kigali, after the court confiscated her passport and denied any movement outside the country. Even an American Attorney, Peter Erlinder who had come to represent Mrs Ingabire was arrested and remained in detention on alleged crimes of ‘Genocide Denial’.

   For what reason would Rwandan security agents arrested Kalisa when he had been demobilized on 28 January 2010, according to the demobilization certificate, remains a mystery.

   Contary to information given about Pte Kalisa, this reporter has independently obtained a demobilisation certificate from the defense ministry which suggests that he was relieved of duties on in January this year.

   According to a certificate baring the signature of the country’s Minister of Defense, General Marcel Gatsinzi, and written in Kinyarwanda, it reads: “Ministeri y’ingabo irashimira No. AP98709 Pte Kalisa Innocent akazi yakoreye igihugu mugihe yari akiri umusirikare akaba asezerewe kamugaragaro le 28th January 2010. (The Ministry of Defense would like to thank, No. AP98709 Pte [Private] Kalisa Innocent for serving his country whilst was a soldier. He has officially been relieved of his duties on 28th January, 2010.
   source:256news.com
2. 

   admin says:

   July 26, 2010 at 10:46 am

   By De Wet Potgieter and Raymond Joseph
   The cash-strapped Rwandan government has splurged millions of rands on two ultra-luxury passenger jets to fly its president and VIPs around the world – and tried to hide ownership of the jets behind a South African-based company.

   Rwanda is battling to rebuild its fragile economy after the 1994 genocide in which 800000 people were killed. The country is still dependent on international aid and donor funding.

   The UN says 60% of Rwanda’s mostly rural population live in poverty.

   The pair of Bombardier Global Express BD-700 jets – with a new price tag of $50-million each – was acquired in 2003 and 2008, respectively.

   They are “owned” by Repli Investments 29 (Pty) Ltd, a company registered in South Africa.

   Repli has three directors, one based in Pretoria and the other two in Rwanda, according to official records of the Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office (Cipro).

   An investigation has revealed that the South African-based director, Paul Nyirubutma, works as second counsellor at the Rwandan embassy in Pretoria. The other directors, who are also believed to be Rwandan government officials, are Paul Manasseh Nshuti and Sekoko Harari. They live in Kigali.

   Repli, which is involved in “financial intermediation”, according to Cipro, was established in May 2008 and was set up to conceal the real ownership of the jets.

   The jets, registrations ZS-ESA and ZS-XRS, are piloted by South Africans and “operated” by Lanseria-based ExecuJet.

   A Rwandan embassy spokesman last week confirmed that Nyirubutma was a second councillor at the embassy, but denied knowledge of the jets or that his government owned them.

   Nyirubutma this week confirmed that the jets were bought for the use of the Rwandan president, the vice-president and the country’s prime minister. “We are from a troubled region that has a troubled history of genocide and civil war. We needed safe, secure and cost-effective planes for my country’s VIPs. Security was paramount,” he said.

   Nyirubutma said he was appointed as one of the directors of Repli Investments to allow the government to have a say in the operations of the aircraft “for security reasons”.

   He said his government had decided to base the jets in South Africa because his country did not have the “skills, expertise or knowledge” to maintain them.

   Both were available for charter when not needed by the Rwandan government.

   “We went into a structure of partial ownership, basically to provide a right of first refusal and also to provide a level of control on the crafts’ operations,” Nyirubutma said.

   The XRS Global Express corporate jet is described on Bombardier’s official website as “the most luxurious, most accomplished business aircraft ever built … accommodating the desires of the most sophisticated and demanding traveller with no compromise”.

   Aviation experts say the XRS is capable of flying “halfway around the world without refuelling”.

   It is one of the biggest business-class jets available .

   ExecuJet’s Steve Bothma refused to comment.

   The newest jet, the ZS-XRS, has been photographed all over the world by aircraft spotters.

   Spotter websites are abuzz with talk of the aircraft’s Rwandan ownership.

   People working at Lanseria say that it is an open secret that the jet is owned by Rwanda.

   “Everyone here knows the jets are for the use of Rwandan president Paul Kagame and other government officials, and belong to his government,” said a well-placed source at Lanseria, who asked not to be named.

   “ExecuJet maintains the jet on behalf of Repli Investments and whenever Kagame needs to get to Europe, the UK or the US, the Rwandan government ‘charters’ this plane (ZS-XRS) from ExecuJet,” said the source.

   Former British prime minister Tony Blair is understood to have been a passenger on the aircraft on several occasions.

   Andrew Siebert, a US-based plane spotter, photographed the aircraft at Boeing Field in Seattle last June.

   He said in an e-mail: “It was carrying the Rwandan president at the time.”

   He added: “Someone commented on my photo saying the following: ‘ZS-XRS is registered in Lanseria, but is actually based in Kigali, Rwanda, where it operates exclusively for the president of Rwanda.’ “

   Another plane spotter photographed the aircraft at Zurich Airport in January last year.

   He wrote on his blog: “This 2007 Global Express XRS is appropriately registered as ZS-XRS to Repli Investments 29 (Pty) Ltd, but is being operated by ExecuJet South Africa, and on this flight was carrying the Rwandan delegation to the World Economic Forum.”

   He said when he photographed it, the aircraft had just come from Kigali.

   Another plane spotter, known as “Drewski”, wrote: “Whoa! South African reg’d GLEX. The person on board left the airport with an entourage of 10 SUVs and undercover police cars.”
3. 

   admin says:

   July 26, 2010 at 10:56 am

   General Kayumba: An enigma?
   
   By Prof. Nshuti Manasseh
   If outrageously dishonesty, and high level deceit by ‘a general’, were vices that defines the character and the person of Kayumba, one wonders why the hullaballoo, and outright outburst that typified his interviews, for the hard truths vindicates this renegade ‘general’.

   For starters, his allegations of accountability fall on his face, in a farce and flat. This is a man who grabbed a whopping 800 hectares in Nyagatare, for himself and wife’s family, at a time when an average citizen in Rwanda owns no more than two acres of land.

   As if this was not enough, he returns after completing his Masters Degree in UK, with properties including motor vehicles, which did not meet the rules of tax exemptions, but for which he tried to enforce using patronage, and abuse of power.

   He was not to get the same, but such acts by ostensibly a senior military official in other countries, where accountability is enforced to the letter, would have earned him a demotion and imprisonment.

   Besides, he amassed lots of wealth from dubious sources, and through this he was able to put properties including three executive houses in high end Nyarutarama, Kigali, properties that are rented by high paying international organisations and diplomatic missions.

   Given the knowledge of his background, and earning power, these assets could only have been acquired through unaccountable sources of incomes, as some have no bank loans that financed the same.

   But this character of the person of Kayumba, collaborates information adduced earlier in this paper by a close aide. The fact that, Kayumba did the same while he was in Uganda is not surprising.

   That he forcibly evicted a house owner in a posh Kampala suburb, after President Museveni assumed power, just because this owner happened to belong to the defeated tribe, and had to buy his safety by surrendering his property to Kayumba, is revealing.

   That he looted maize mills from northern Uganda for sale in Kampala, and shared the loot with other army officers talks volumes of the nature of ‘a general’ who questions accountability of a system that has been certified by international institutions whose accountability assessment methodology, dogs Kayumba’s sentimentalism.

   But information available indicates that, even after entering Rwanda, he went on to loot herds of cattle left by the late Habyarimana’s retreating army, only to take them to Uganda. If these are not tricks and traps of a questionable character whose moral authority is but void, one wonders why anybody else on earth would be wood winked by such a person.

   In this context he did question the manner in which the modest home of the First Family in Muhazi was acquired. Although anybody with interest in the same can vouch this with Arab contractors, suffice to say that, The First Family paid for their contractor to build their home in 2003, in six installments from funds generated from the sale of their land parcel.

   Information on this contract is available from Arab contractors, and is independent and has no connection with Defense Headquarters’ contract. To assert that, the First Family used one contactor for both properties, was but dishonest and manipulative. But this again questions the motive and leverage Kayumba wanted to gain from his malicious and outrageous statements.

   Answers to this lie not so much in the substance of interviews, but rather in his person, a person that stooped too low, for what he wanted readers to believe, and in the process distorted even the most verifiable empirical truths, that has only exposed him as a man of questionable integrity and morality.

   The case of Tristar:
   Kayumba should have been the last person to question the accountability of Tristar to party members, and the heinous assertions that, its assets are used for, and at the service of The President.

   This is even more ridiculous considering that, Kayumba was a member of Tristar’s board from 1994 to 1999. When he left the board, he, and his fellow board members left no trail of their activities, nor did they account to party members, who had given them all the trust in matters of finance which is unusual and imprudent to the extreme.

   Although this does not vindicate other board members, it questions Kayumba’s upside down assertions on issues concerning Tristar.

   Besides, when RPA/F took power, after ending the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, our treasury and banks had been emptied by fleeing genocidaires. RPF through Tristar had to foot all government bills to the extent that, government still owes Tristar around US $ 9 million, yet to be refunded.

   Kayumba is aware, like most, that RPF members’ contributions allowed Tristar to raise capital to invest in many ventures, where neither local nor foreign investors dared to invest at the time.

   After all, which sober investor would have invested his/her capital in a failed state anyway? And which investor would even have dared to invest in a country that was synonymous to genocide until recently.

   Tristar’s investment interventions in various areas of our economy gave confidence not only to local investments, but also to foreign investors, that Rwanda was a country worth staking their capital, regardless of its past.

   RPF like any other party in the world of politics chose the model of using Tristar as a business vehicle to manage her resources and invest these in our economy. Investments that have made tremendous difference, not only for many Rwandans that derive their livelihood in her activities by way of employment, but more so the economy in general, throughout put generated by such investments.

   In other countries, many political parties either use donations from large companies/wealthy individuals (they are very few in Rwanda) to fund their activities, or use government coffers with impunity to finance the same. In the latter case, government and party funds are one and the same.

   In the former scenario, companies (wealthy individuals) that contribute to party activities are guaranteed lucrative contractors and other patronage spins offs, that holds the government of the day and her policies hostage to such companies and their owners. In essence, owners of such companies/wealthy individuals partake in the management of the government they have helped to fund, and form.

   This approach has been disastrous in Africa, where these companies go under with the removal of the governments they were party to, and part of. This is not the case with RPF which chose a viable and sustainable means to finance her activities. Kayumba knows this very well, and information with regards to activities of Tristar which is available, as the accounts are audited and passed by a Board of Directors who act as trustees for, and on behalf of party members.

   Kayumba’s arguments that The President controls and uses the funds of Tristar at will is the highest folly anyone who knows how the President works in matters of finance, in general, and Tristar in particular.

   His argument that, the President does not account to RPF members how Tristar funds are used is the height of naivety for a person who was a board member of Tristar for over five years.

   RPF has millions of members in our country, and it is inconceivable how each of these members can hold anybody, leave alone party Chairman accountable as how Tristar funds are used.

   Audited accounts serve as a measure of accountability of activities and funds of an organization, party members, through RPF party Secretariat can, and should request audited accounts of Tristar, which is available for all to see to ascertain accountability of their funds.

   But that, Kayumba chose to twist these hard truths the way he did, only served to earn the rage of not only party members, but also Rwandans in general who are aware of, and see the activities, and conduct of RPF and Tristar with regard to the management of their finances and the level of accountability involved.

   His outrageous, and false mis-representation of information with the intention of “attacking” the Party Chairman, and the President only earned him the wrath of party members, who were the target of his “attacks”. But, his only one RPF member, if ever he was.