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Diane Rwigara; bless her Soul.

by Gatete Ruhumuliza Nyiringabo
August 31, 2017
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Diane Rwigara; bless her Soul.
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‘RWANDA police probing Diane Rwigara, a fierce critic of President Kagame, for suspected tax evasion and forgery.’ – This is what The East African newspaper tweeted this morning. I am not a journalist, but I keep wondering why they do this…

– For one, Diane has no known individual business, or even a know carrier. She lived at her parents’ house.

Western media refers to her, at times as, ‘Rwandan women’s rights activist’ – she has done nothing of the sort.

– Two, she is not CEO of her family business and the business audit does not concern her.

– Three, she is being investigated for forging signatures supporting her bid to the presidency – which is unrelated to business;

– Four, every business anywhere is routinely audited by the Revenue Authority and that doesn’t make news; that the daughter of a business owner decides to do politics does not grant automatic tax-exemption to the entire family (If that’s the case, let’s all go into politics);

-Five: Diane and her family have not been detained; I asked the police this morning and they confirmed it to me. – Updated: Diane, sister and her mother were later discovered hiding in the boys-quarters of their family home, from where she tweeted to the world that she was in police custody. On the link below is a video of the police searching their home and ‘discovering’ them. Diane can be seen abusing her own mother and the police officer who ‘found’ her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrdHcRgJtmk 

Diane and her mother were later convicted of plotting to overthrow the government and imprisoned. On the following links are audios of Diane, her mother and her sister conversing with unknown individuals and openly expressing wishes to overthrow government. While in court, they never denied the allegations or the audios: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMb4z8-hTYc and 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR4SYhh6rUk

Conclusion: Everyone who goes into politics should, in principle, declare their wealth, and subsequently be audited to ensure that they are under no clout of any business cronies. That is what transparency is, and in Rwanda we try to uphold transparency. This is not America, where politicians represent business interests.

That is not even what is asked of Diane, no one audited her, or her personal business. Yet, articles in the media seem to purport that from now on, Diane’s family business should no longer pay taxes or be audited; Or, that everyone who criticizes the president has a free pass to evade tax or violate the law.

People know this by now, as a result those who are caught in tax evasion or corruption, immediately declare their intentions to go into politics, or call our president a dictator, and become western media’s overnight sensations.

Rwandan women rights activist are baffled now. ‘What has Diane done for us, apart from insulting the man who has emancipated us? Calling her a women’s right activist is an insult to us!’ they are all saying.

Politics is no game of alter boys and choir girls. Diane did what she had to do to make it to the ballot, she got caught. Some of the things happening to her are unfair. For instance, I got publicly angry at the man who admitted to have taken her nude pictures, and removed him from my discussion group.

In my opinion she shouldn’t have gone into politics in the first place. Or she should have gone in the right way; Learn about our economy, our social problems, our human rights issues; do comparative studies with other countries, learn best practices, go on a country tour, meet women’s associations, vulnerable groups, understand Rwandan history, maybe start a blog, advance her ideas, then one day, run for district mayor, member of parliament, etc. Not turn up one month to elections, out of nowhere, abuse everyone, create all sorts of scandals, etc.

We are eleven million respectable people; Even those already in power respect us – which is why we elect them! No one will sign for you like that!

Western media and experts like Diane for racist reasons – she doesn’t know that. She doesn’t know that and she doesn’t know us. She should have stayed in the comfort of her family wealth and stop creating troubles to herself…

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Comments 5

  1. Placide Muhigana says:
    5 years ago

    The signature forgery attributed to her is an allégation. It’s not clear in your text.

    Police statements are just police statements, they don’t automatically exactely say what they are actually doing or what is going on.

    Diane is probably not the CEO of the family business but I guess she has shares in it and is rightfully interested in the audit, etc.

    As to her political and rights activism, it is not about the duration, any skills/experience or whether it was triggered by the alledged murder of her father, it’s about the message and anybody who followed her for the last 7 months can tell.

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  2. Gasana says:
    5 years ago

    “-Five: Diane and her family have not been detained; I asked the police this morning and they confirmed it to me.”
    Remember what’s happend to Kizito Mihigo 3 year back? The same police made the same statement….

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  3. ray says:
    5 years ago

    Five: Diane is not a ‘fierce critic’ of president Paul kagame.. not at all. This is too much flattering…for goodness sake she just wanted to stand as a presidential candidate. Her dream didn’t last long. We didn’t know her until just yesterday.how exactly does this earn her such a strong title ‘fierce critic of Kagame” ??i find it absurd.

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  4. Grace says:
    5 years ago

    Nuko ntazi kwerekana gukoma amashyi ku rubuga nkuru!! Ngibyo. Bose babisome babimenye. How do I share this on my facebook? Ndi bubifindure…..Benshi muri twe baradukoresha kugirango tugume kuryana…ntibabimenye. Kutamenya amateka yacu bituma bamwe bayoba. All hail to Ingandos zitwigisha twese gukunda u Rwanda ngo twimenye!!. I LOVE your blog brother. Komereza aho!

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  5. Amahoro says:
    4 years ago

    Wow
    1. Thank you very much for your wise words and the deep understanding of Rwandan women and values. Kudos

    2. Diane niba atari umukobwa ufite umuco nindangagaciro za kinyarwanda ni abanyarwanda bari kubyerekana ntibamutore. Ntibyagakwiye gutuma afungwa

    3. Atariyamamariza kuba President kuki nta kosa yagiraga amakosa akaboneka aruko yiyamamaje

    4. Numwana utazi gusoma no kwandika w’ umunyarwanda arabizi ko azira ubusa. Ikibigaragaza cyane nuko nabamusingiraga bari mu bibazo. Ntibikwiye rwose mu guhugu muzi ibyo cyaciyemo. Nawe ubihishira ubizi ntaho utaniye na bamwe wasomaga Uri umwana muri za kangura nibindi. Nyabuneka nyabuneka namwe muzi aho twavuye koko?

    5. Nimugire inama leta imufungure ahubwo yigishwe umuco wuko abakobwa nabagore b’u Rwanda bitwara naho kubeshya ngo afite ibyaha byo ni icyasha mutera iki guhugu namwe mutiretse.

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