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RWANDA’S PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME who in 2010, won with 93 per cent of the vote, has this time around won with 99% of the vote.
In presidential elections that many including Amnesty International view as simply a formality because of commonly lethal attacks on political opponents, journalists and rights activists and fear instilled by the ruling power, building up to two decades so far, Kagame has won the election.
The electoral environment was considered not to be conducive to elections as political parties were barred from displaying campaign posters in public schools which included places like schools and hospitals but over 80 per cent of Rwanda’s 6.9 million registered voters cast their vote.
While Rwanda a small east African nation is praised for economic growth, stability and success under Paul kagame, it is also criticised for silencing opponents, by human rights organisations who accuse the government of employing state powers to silence opposition.
In the election Paul Kagame (59) who had 99% ran against Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda who had 0.45 per cent and former journalist Philippe Mpayimana who had 0.72 per cent of the vote in a landslide victory in which three potential candidates allegedly failed to fulfil electoral requirements such as collecting enough signatures.
The three were were disqualified. Kagame is seen as one whose rebels are credited with helping to end the brutal Rwandan genocide in 1994 which killed over 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were butchered by Hutu extremists. Wealth is only in the government or those closely linked to government. It is said that kagame and Mugabe are the same but Kagame unlike Mugabe doesn’t challenge or speak against the western powers and so he favoured by the West and they turn a blind eye on all that his people are clamouring about. the light is shined upon Mugabe’s oppression of the people because he openly dislikes the West and so is hated…..food for thought! More news to follow By Sibusiso Ngwenya.