Security is reportedly investigating another foreign self-styled pastor of Rwanda and DR Congo origin over espionage charges. The suspect Pastor Prosper Ruvusha is operating born again churches in Uganda allegedly under Rwanda’s Directorate of Military Intelligence covert operations in intelligence gathering and surveillance in Uganda.
It is reported that in early 2000s, Rwanda’s DMI under the leadership of then Lt Col Jack Nziza (now Maj Gen), moved in to assert influence on churches most especially born again churches due to their growing popularity.
For Rwanda’s catholic churches, after 1994, due to guilty in participating in Tutsi genocide, they automatically aligned to RPF/RPA ideology after the war. It is also indicated that Jack Nziza also identified that these born again churches which were springing around Rwanda were getting lots of aid funds from abroad.
With this in mind, Nziza moved in to control these lucrative churches by replacing founding pastors of these churches with DMI controlled pastors.
Among these churches, ADEPR churches were targeted due to its growth and deep pockets.
With ADEPR under the control of DMI, church leaders of this organization were turned into potential DMI intelligence personnel with most of them going for military training (ingando). As a DMI operation tool, ADEPR churches became covert operation centers for both internal and external operations.
Externally, DMI established ADEPR churches in countries which have high concentration of Rwandans for example in Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, and Malawi.
In both these countries, Rwandans are reporting these ADEPR churches to their respective authorities for terrorism related cases.
Pastor Prosper Ruvusha In Mubende
Pastor Prosper Ruvusha, is a Munyamulenge who fled his country – DR Congo with his extended family and settled in Rwanda.
He studied his university at Butare in Rwanda. After completing at Butare University and failing to secure a job in Rwanda, he went to Norway and asked for asylum in Norway.
UDI, which is the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration didn’t believe to Prosper Ruvusha’s story, he was denied asylum and deported back to Rwanda. While in Rwanda, he learned some few verses of the bible and later became a pastor in ADEPR churches.
With Gen James Kabarebe and Gen Jack Nziza building DMI cells in Uganda, Prosper Ruvusha was identified for deployment. In early 2014, he was deployed in Uganda to head ADEPR church in Mubende.
In order to infiltrate Ugandan society very well, DMI helped him acquire Ugandan documents under the names of Apollinaire Asiimwe born in Ruhama, Ntungamo, Uganda.
Prosper Ruvusha is 100% Munyamulenge born in Minembwe, South Kivu in DR Congo. DMI through their agents within Uganda authority were able to acquire documents under operation cover names of Apollinaire Asiimwe born in Ruhama, Ntungamo, Uganda.
In the process of integration, DMI also provided him with funds to start a project called “Christian recycling” which operates at ADEPR church premises in Mubende and Kibuye in Kampala.
Under the cover names of pastor Apollinaire Asiimwe,Ruvusha has been working directly with Gen James Kabarebe, Gen James Burabyo of Rwanda’s embassy in Uganda and Col Ismael Baguma of Rwanda’s embassy in Uganda.
Since 2014, innocent people have been kidnapped and eliminated due to his fabricated information to DMI.
During Gen Kale Kayihura’s era, damming dossier from Pastor Apollinaire Asiimwe led to numerous innocent people being targeted by DMI with the help of some rogue police officers in Uganda.
Asiimwe has provided false and fabricated dossier to his employers in Kigali, including false witness statements, for example, that RNC has a training camp in Uganda.
Close friends say his false and fabricated dossiers have led to loss of innocent lives, and others being kidnapped from streets of Uganda to torture dungeons in Rwanda.
