{"id":39043,"date":"2019-03-27T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/removing-kagame-is-rwandans-business-for-anyone\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:40:46","slug":"removing-kagame-is-rwandans-business-for-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/removing-kagame-is-rwandans-business-for-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Removing Kagame is Rwandans\u2019 business, for anyone else it is impossible\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kagame made the remarks as he was closing the 7th African CEO Forum 2019 alongside President Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n

He was answering a question by Africa Report Magazine\u2019s Chief Editor, Patrick Smith, who was moderating the panel as he asked him on what he thinks will be the solution to problems between Rwanda and Uganda.<\/p>\n

Relations between the two countries have been deteriorating in the past two years. Rwanda accuses Uganda of supporting armed groups hostile to the Government of Rwanda including the FDLR and Rwanda National Congress (RNC) and illegally detaining, torturing and harassing its nationals travelling to Uganda among other accusations.<\/p>\n

Kagame said that as things stand now, dialogue can\u2019t help in resolving tensions between the two countries and that all the efforts they make seeking solution to the problem are undermined by \u2018petty things\u2019.<\/p>\n

Kagame said for those outsiders who imagine replacing him with someone else, \u201cit is impossible\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think that you don\u2019t like President Kagame or Rwanda because you think what should happen in Rwanda is supposed to be dependent on you, your views and decision; this is bad politics,\u201d Kagame said adding: \u201cWhether you like me or not, President Kagame is here as President of Rwanda, it is the business of the people of Rwanda. If they want Kagame they will have him and if they don\u2019t they will remove him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo imagine that because you don\u2019t like Kagame you will change him and put someone else, it is impossible,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n

On the issue with Uganda, Kagame said: \u201cIt must come to a point where the family must sit and realistically resolve this issue. Continuing to talk about our problems, we come to a point where the best thing is to cooperate and accept each other.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cTo say the least, if we can\u2019t work together as brothers, sisters, friends, we can decide to give each other peace and forget what we have to do together but above all, avoid quarrels that will be destructive because no one will win from any serious quarrel,\u201d Kagame advised.
\nPresident Tshisekedi who was also on the panel said that leaders should seek peace between countries they lead as they will leave power but still leave countries as neighbors forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur countries will be neighbors forever; as leaders, we are here temporarily but our countries will always be there. Conflict with each other is a waste of time, time that could be used to build our countries,\u201d President Tshisekedi reiterated. <\/p>\n

On integration, Kagame said: \u201cAfrican people are ahead of their leaders in understanding the importance of integration and practicing it. In some places there is trade going on even with bullets flying. It is the responsibility of leaders that this should not be the case, or be normalized.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame has said it is Rwandans\u2019 business to remove him from power when they don\u2019t want him but it is impossible for anyone else thinking of ousting him and put someone else. <\/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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","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\/39043","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=39043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39043"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39043"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}