This is the usual disrespectful stance of those that seek to cast aspersions, suspicions and demonize the administration of President Kagame. It is part of an overall effort, long term, to discredit the government.
The same people claiming “their pressure” worked are the very same ones at the forefront with allegations that “Rwanda is a dictatorship”, “police state”, where “political opponents have no rights”, and every other falsehood in the book.
It leaves them seriously embarrassed and at a loss for words every time a Rwandan government institution disproves their narrative of Rwanda as “hell on earth”. So when the court grants people like the Rwigara women bail, the naysayers are stunned, their talking points blown out of the water.
It is our view that they are fighting a losing battle. It is they who ultimately will be exposed for their rank dishonesty and cynicism in propagating a narrative whose only aim is to undermine a government that has done more than any other in Rwandan history to bring about the unity of its people, and to promote equality – ethnic and gender – across all areas of life.
The fact, for those who care about facts, is that court releasing the Rwigaras to fight their case from outside was the clearest indication that Rwanda is a country of rule of law, no matter how the negativists try to spin it. An independent judiciary was seen at work, and Rwandans should rejoice in that.
The public only sees cases like the Rwigaras’, but hundreds of Rwandans across the country are benefiting from the good workings of the judiciary. None “celebrity” Rwandans too apply for, and get bail. They too ask for parole and get it, and so on. All without “pressure” from anyone.
Our view then is that if this is what it means to be in “a police state”, we will be very happy to live in such a police state.
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