By Rutaburingoga Sulah Wakabirigi
This morning what’s on my mind is Dr Christopher Kayumba, whom I happen to know many years back at the National of Rwanda, Butare, he was years ahead of me, later he became a junior lecturer at the school of journalism, he was one of the pioneers, sadly with Ines Mpambara, now Kagame’s minister incharge of Cabinet Affairs. Fresh from Canada, she used to dress those killing mini-skirts for everyone to leave no room to doubt her physical beauty. Wonders she is now a minister.
Kayumba who incidentally was married to one of the relatives of minister Johnston Busingye, was very brilliant and at no point was he ever known to be violate towards girls or women and more so a rapist (umukozi wamarorerwa). His education through PhD was sponsored by govt at even the time his then wife was the permanent Secretary in the ministry of education. He was a homeboy of the regime, defended the regime and worked for it though he at times exhumeed his independent mind as a scholar.
Little did he know that the regime he served and loved so much was so monstrous/draculous and it was a matter of hours before it was his turn for the Dracula to come for his blood just like many others (Col Karegeya, Kizito, Rwigara, Rwiseruka, Rezinde, Ngoga, Rutayisire, etc). The Kagame regime has no shame and has mastered the art of sexualising and using women as a killer tool against any political opponent. To the regime every critic is a rapist, a womaniser etc.
Interestingly they speak to themselves cos if there is any womaniser in that gvt it’s their President and several of his officials and military Generals. But to them xter assasination is their art of the game and the regime is itself a school for scandal with Kagame and his wife as main xters.
One wonders why the regime and it’s coercive force had to wait for Kayumba to announce his political party formation or political ambitions for them to quickly crop up several girls accusing him of rape?
But as Gandhi said, You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.