Don’t bar Nahimana from entering Rwanda-Kagame

{President Paul Kagame has been surprised by how a fugitive like priest Nahimana Thomas could be barred from entering Rwanda saying he should be allowed entry and if he has committed any crime be pursued later in the courts of law.}

He said Nahimana should not be barred from entering the country even when he has foreign passport.

The president expressed his concern yesterday as he addressed over 2000 RPF Inkotanyi Political Bureau members at Kigali Convention Center.

Priest Nahimana had announced that he would land in Kigali at 14:55 hours on 23rd November 2016 which never materialized.

It was later reported that he was barred from entering Rwanda over incomplete travel documents which Nahimana claimed to be false.

The President said that he doesn’t understand why Nahimana was barred from entering Rwanda noting that if was being sought to face justice, then he would be let in the country be pursued. A person like Nahimana, Kagame said, cannot destabilize Rwanda.

Reverend Father Thomas Nahimana is known for his scathing attacks against the government of Rwanda and revisionism through his website, ‘Le Prophète’ (the prophet) based in France where he has lived for 11 years. Nahimana, 45, was born in Cyangugu diocese and has been living in France from where he has been spreading politics of hatred and discrimination.

Nahimana left Rwanda in 2005 saying his security was not guaranteed and received in the diocese of Le Havre in France where he started making wild political statements.
Prior to his self-imposed exile, he had no criminal record. As time evolved Nahimana collaborated with Fortunatus Rudakemwa and launched a website ‘Le Prophete’ which has been a platform of hatred, denial and undermining 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

Priest Nahimana formed ‘Ishema’ a political party on 28th January 2013 that helped him to spread his political ideology.

Nahimana has been calling the remembrance of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi ‘a permanent political tool to incite anger, clouding citizens with fear and dousing them in sorrow and promoting racial discrimination.’