{"id":38506,"date":"2018-11-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-mp-omar-kiyogoma-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T08:40:18","slug":"former-mp-omar-kiyogoma-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-mp-omar-kiyogoma-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MP Omar Kiyogoma passes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiyogoma who was a member of the Ideal Democratic Party (PDI) was bid last farewells by family and friends yesterday after sending off prayers in a Nyamirambo mosque Kigali at a place known as ONATRACOM.<\/p>\n<p>His fellow Muslim, Abbas Mukama who also replaced him in Rwanda\u2019s parliament in 2000, told IGIHE that prior to his death, Kiyogoma had been sick for long and that he breathed his last at Kibagabaga Hospital in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a long time since he fell sick. When he left parliament in 2000, he was employed by the Government to the commission that drafted Rwanda\u2019s constitution that was enacted in 2003 after which he retired.  He has been suffering from diabetes and heart sicknesses. He lived with those two sicknesses,\u201d Abbas Mukama said.  <\/p>\n<p>He passed on [Tuesday] at Kibagabaga Hospital as he lived at Kibagabaga,\u201d Mukama added. <\/p>\n<p>Hamidou Omar Kiyogoma was appointed as a member of the committee that was charged to draft the 2003 constitution.<\/p>\n<p>A member of Parti Democratique Islamique (PDI) which opposed to President Juvenal Habyarimana\u2019s regime, Hamidou Ismael Kiyogoma was hunted to be killed during the 1994 genocide like other politicians who opposed to MRND\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n<p>After the 1994 genocide against Tutsi erupted on April 7, 1994, Kiyogoma fled to Saint-Andr\u00e9 College where he stayed until April 14 when an RPF commando evacuated him and saved his life.<\/p>\n<p>The Ideal Democratic Party was established as the Islamic Democratic Party (Parti D\u00e9mocratique Islamique) in 1992. In 2003 the party adopted its current name as a result of Rwanda\u2019s constitutional prohibition of religious-based parties.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27578 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/family_and_friends_as_former_member_of_parliament_hamidou_kiyogoma_was_buried_at_nyamirambo_cemetery.jpg\" alt=\"Family and friends as former Member of Parliament, Hamidou Kiyogoma was buried at Nyamirambo Cemetery\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27579 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/hamidou_omar_kiyogoma_was_buried_on_wednesday_afternoon.jpg\" alt=\"Hamidou Omar Kiyogoma was buried on Wednesday afternoon\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27577 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mp_musa_fazil_harerimana_who_also_served_the_minister_of_interior_and_former_mp_abbas_mukama_were_fellow_members_of_pdi_party_with_kiyogoma_they_accompanied_him_at_his_burial.jpg\" alt=\"MP Musa Fazil Harerimana who also served as the Minister of Interior Affairs and former MP Abbas Mukama were fellow members of PDI Party with Kiyogoma, they accompanied him at his burial\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiyogoma who was a member of the Ideal Democratic Party (PDI) was bid last farewells by family and friends yesterday after sending off prayers in a Nyamirambo mosque Kigali at a place known as ONATRACOM. His fellow Muslim, Abbas Mukama who also replaced him in Rwanda\u2019s parliament in 2000, told IGIHE that prior to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38506"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38506"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}