{"id":38528,"date":"2018-11-20T10:44:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/what-we-deserve-is-in-the-future-not-the-past\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:44:40","slug":"what-we-deserve-is-in-the-future-not-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/what-we-deserve-is-in-the-future-not-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"What we deserve is in the future not the past- Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kagame made the remarks as he addressed 80 members of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), a global network of business leaders with more than 26,000 members in more than130 countries.<\/p>\n

President Paul Kagame, who is the Chairman of the African Union (AU) and who in 2016 was mandated by his fellow African Heads of States to watch over the African Union institutional reforms, expressed his pleasure in the role Rwandans have played in the AU reforms and said a lot more can be achieved by the Continent and through partnerships.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a great pleasure for us as Rwandans to be part of it [AU reforms] and play our role, however little, trying to achieve results for everyone\u2019s benefits. There is so much we can do as a continent and there is, even more, we can do with partnerships,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On Rwanda\u2019s progress, Kagame said: \u201cWe are convinced that we have had in our past is not what we deserve, what we deserve is in our future. We all go together and we don\u2019t want to leave anyone behind, that is more or less like a religion for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

To get the future the country deserves, Kagame urged the YPO members to \u2018act ahead of the actual time you are in.\u2019<\/p>\n

Kagame said: \u201cI am no longer worried about the past or the future, the sustainability of what we are building is what I spend my days and nights on. We have to keep thinking ahead, and sometimes acting ahead of the actual time you are in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to sustain the kind of politics, activities that ensure Rwandans value one another so we don\u2019t go back to the history where one looks at a neighbor, a workmate as an enemy. There is no basis for that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Chairman of the African Union highlighted the mental problem as the biggest challenge that delays Africa\u2019s transformation stressing some cases where Africans beg from others what they already have.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Africa, we tend to lower our standards. In some cases, Africans even beg to be given what they have. Some ask for others to spend on them when they have the resources to spend on themselves. It is a mentality problem,\u201d Kagame said adding that, \u201cWhat is lacking is being able to say, we have all the means & the intellectual ability to think. There is no continent with more resources than ours. The question is what is missing to produce what we need, to take ourselves to the level where we need to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the AU Peace Fund that was launched during the AU Extraordinary Summit last weekend in Addis, Ethiopia, Kagame said: \u201cThe idea was to create a fund and grow it so that we can prevent conflicts on our continent without having to beg NGOs or others to do it for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame has said he is no longer worried about the future but rather spends restless days and sleepless nights thinking on the sustainability of what has been built and that Rwanda got in the past is not what it deserved but the future holds what the country deserves.<\/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":[69],"byline":[180],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-samson-iradukunda"],"bylines":[{"id":180,"name":"Samson Iradukunda","slug":"samson-iradukunda","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":24}],"contributors":[{"id":180,"name":"Samson Iradukunda","slug":"samson-iradukunda","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":24}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38528","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=38528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38528"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38528"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}