kjhova:


Haba! Are you familiar with happenings in Rwanda or you are only just reacting based on the jaundiced report from AP?

"Kagame, the controversial president of Rwanda..." is as jaundiced a statement as can ever be made by anybody. The Western powers and there media have this view of Paul Kagame as an autocrat but cannot dispute the fact that since Kagame took power in Rwanda, this small but densely populated central African country has been the fasted growing economy in Africa, the most gender equitable, most educated (in dual European languages of French and English), the most peaceful and all.

Rwanda has the lowest unemployment rate in continental Africa and the least dependent on foreign aids amongst the East and Central African community. Infact, Kagame has reduced Rwanda's foreign aid to budget ratio from about 80% after the 1994 genocide to less than 20% in 2017 and the government is bent on achieving zero dependence on foreign donors before president Kagame leave office.

According to my good pilot friend (omo Naija wey finish from OOU) who left Arik Air for Rwandair and now resides in Kigali, Rwanda is the best managed country in Africa today. In Kigali, the government have a dedicated programme to rehabilitate street children and the quality of government funded education available to homeless Rwandan children beats standard private schools in Nigeria.

Kagame is not a sit tight dictator, no, not by such definition of Idi Amin or Paul Biya. Kagame, if he isn't derailed either by external forces or by his own folly, could be the Lee Kuan Yew of Africa.

MadCow1:
Rwanda still be country?

Camillus92:


The way we igbos are also paying for ours

NwaAmaikpe:


Hutus have overpaid for the sins of the genocide.

The Tutsis have now succeeded in making them second class citizens politically.

iammolise:
Like are they practicing "monarchy" or something.

Come on! when will Africa grow up.

Ewedegubbler:
Visit Rwanda and you will cry for Nigeria...

Suspect33:
This is not man who did that, the war was not ended by man, the rebels surrendered, but a certain paul rusesabagina (not paul kagama) sheltered 1200 people in his hotel

flyca:

Will you be surprised if I prove to you that Rwanda is 100 times better than the Nigeria of today?

DuBLINGreenb:
Stoopind pipu
How do they rig so efficiently even Jesus can not win 93% of votes
What has he given rwandans? Eternal life?

chinchum:
Good he has done well for the country, however sitting tight is condemn able because humans by nature at a point start feeling like a demi god and subsequently begins to misbehave. Anyone conversant with Mugabe when he started ruling Zimbabwe in 1980 will know he started well in the first 15 years or thereabout as president of Zimbabwe.

What Kagame ought to have done was to have started grooming a group of successors at least in the last 5 years , and thereafter pick one as the annointed one. I am certain his performance will dwindle in the coming years courtesy a sense of absolute power, "dark spots", old age, e.t.c

Ewedegubbler:
Visit Rwanda and you will cry for Nigeria...

julietm123:

Be there talking. Nigeria has been changing presidents like pant. See where we are. Even with this one man as president since the war, they are already ahead of Nigeria.

julietm123:

sorry for your life. You and you generation can keep paying for your sins. Wetin concern Igbos. Fo..li..sh yorubasta.

omusiliyu:

You wrote based on the film (Hotel Rwanda ) you watched.

Suspect33:
No, i made research, you should research it as well

omusiliyu:


Paul Kagame (/kəˈɡɑːmeɪ/; born 23 October 1957) is the current President of Rwanda having taken office in 2000 when his predecessor, Pasteur Bizimungu, resigned. Kagame previously commanded the rebel force that ended the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He was considered Rwanda's de facto leader when he served as Vice President and Minister of Defence from 1994 to 2000.

Continue reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kagame

omusiliyu:
Rwanda’s long-time President Paul Kagame has easily won a third term in office in a vote he had called “a formality.”

Kagame, the controversial president of Rwanda, won a landslide victory in the small African state’s election, securing a third term extending his 17 years in power.

The result gives him another seven years leading the small east African nation praised for its economic performance but criticised for its silencing of opponents.

Electoral authorities overnight said Mr Kagame had won more than 98 per cent of the vote with 80 per cent of ballots counted, with no major change expected when final results are announced later on Saturday.

He addressed jubilant supporters at party headquarters and urged Rwandans, including those who did not support him, to work together.

“This election was criticised so much due to me continuing to be your leader, especially people from outside the country because they oppose the will of Rwandans,” he told supporters. “But Rwandans have shown that it was not manipulated by anyone but their own will.”

Mr Kagame has led the country of 12 million people since his rebels helped to end its genocide in 1994 during which more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by Hutu extremists.

The Associated Press said 59-year-old Kagame has been praised for the country’s economic growth, but human rights groups accuse his government of using state powers to silence opposition. Rwandan authorities, including the president, deny it.

A constitutional amendment in 2015 allows him to stay in power until 2034 if he pursues it.

Mr Kagame was running against Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda – the only permitted opposition party – and independent candidate and former journalist Philippe Mpayimana.

Three potential candidates were disqualified for allegedly failing to fulfil requirements including collecting enough signatures.

With 80 per cent of votes counted, Mr Mpayimana had just 0.72 per cent and conceded defeat and congratulated Mr Kagame. Mr Habineza had 0.45 per cent.

More than 80 per cent of Rwanda’s 6.9 million registered voters cast their ballots, according to Charles Munyaneza, executive secretary of the Rwanda Electoral Commission.

In Rwanda’s capital Kigali, there had been little hint of the coming vote. Candidates had been barred from putting campaign posters in most public places, including schools and hospitals.

The electoral commission vetted candidates’ campaign messages, warning that their social media accounts could be blocked otherwise.

Two decades of often deadly attacks on political opponents, journalists and rights activists created a “climate of fear” ahead of Rwanda’s election, Amnesty International said in a report last month.

In 2010, Mr Kagame won with 93 per cent of the vote.

In July, he told a campaign rally that “the day of the presidential elections will just be a formality.”


http://tribuneonlineng.com/paul-kagame-wins-3rd-term-17-year-presidency-rwanda/

GreatMahmud:


Trash...what is in Rwanda? A country with a size not up to 2 states in Nigeria. Remove kigali the capital city and all u have is a rural community..

Sunstorm100:
59 is still very young. I think retirement age should be 70. old age begins from 80 to 100+

Guyman02:


Thank you. I think the days of western media fooling the world is gone for good. Even US President Trump calls them Fake News CNN, BBC, AP, Fox, etc

Kagame has transformed Rwanda, today the people have almost forgotten that there was genocide a few years ago because most are educated now. The Hutu and Tutsi think more about growth for their country than hate for one another.
That is what northern Nigeria needs now, educated majority and Boko Haram will disappear

chinchum:
Good he has done well for the country, however sitting tight is condemn able because humans by nature at a point start feeling like a demi god and subsequently begins to misbehave. Anyone conversant with Mugabe when he started ruling Zimbabwe in 1980 will know he started well in the first 15 years or thereabout as president of Zimbabwe.

What Kagame ought to have done was to have started grooming a group of successors at least in the last 5 years , and thereafter pick one as the annointed one. I am certain his performance will dwindle in the coming years courtesy a sense of absolute power, "dark spots", old age, e.t.c

Suspect33:
wow you're right, i only knew of paul rusesabagina

flyca:

Will you be surprised if I prove to you that Rwanda is 100 times better than the Nigeria of today?

chinchum:
Good he has done well for the country, however sitting tight is condemn able because humans by nature at a point start feeling like a demi god and subsequently begins to misbehave. Anyone conversant with Mugabe when he started ruling Zimbabwe in 1980 will know he started well in the first 15 years or thereabout as president of Zimbabwe.

What Kagame ought to have done was to have started grooming a group of successors at least in the last 5 years , and thereafter pick one as the annointed one. I am certain his performance will dwindle in the coming years courtesy a sense of absolute power, "dark spots", old age, e.t.c