{"id":39904,"date":"2019-08-26T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-mozambique-diaspora-chairman-shot-dead\/"},"modified":"2019-08-29T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T18:54:43","slug":"rwanda-mozambique-diaspora-chairman-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-mozambique-diaspora-chairman-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Mozambique diaspora chairman shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IGIHE has learned that Baziga has been shot dead around 11:30 am as he drove to a tarmac road in Bike.<\/p>\n<p>A credible source has said that two cars carrying people with guns barricaded Baziga who was driving himself and shot him dead in rapid-fire.<br \/>\nRwanda\u2019s ambassador to Mozambique, Claude Nikobisanzwe has confirmed to IGIHE that Baziga has been shot dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is true that he has been shot dead. The incident took place around 11:50 am. He was then head of diaspora here.  Three people barricaded him along the way, got out their cars and shot him. We have not yet identified masterminds,\u201d he confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>It was not the first attempt to kill the man who survived another attack organized by a group of Rwandans living in the country in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with IGIHE on 25th March 2016, late Baziga said: \u201cFellow Rwandans wanted to kill me and negotiated with a policeman on the payments to have me killed.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>He explained that the policeman knew Baziga and alerted him on bad plans against him.  <\/p>\n<p>Three Rwandans living in Maputo of whom two are ex-soldiers were later in September 2016 taken to court on the accusation of attempts to kill Baziga. <\/p>\n<p>These include Diom\u00e8de Tuganeyezu, a pastor, businessman and ex-soldier; businessman Benjamin Ndagijimana and colleague Revocat Karemangingo who is also an ex-soldier. <\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor alleged the three men of attempting to kill Baziga to become proprietors of Pentecostal Church in Revival Mozambique which they founded along with the deceased. <\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Nikobisanzwe said the court case was continued though the defense lawyer was informed that it was to be put on hold.   <\/p>\n<p>Louis Baziga was a businessman in Mozambique capital city, Maputo where he had a supermarket and Pharmacy.   <\/p>\n<p>In March 2018, another Rwandan called Vital Hitimana running a business in Villa Olempique town was shot dead with rapid-fire and admitted to hospital over sustained injuries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31703 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cats-36-0a370.jpg\" alt=\"Louis Baziga who formerly served as the chairman of Rwanda\u2019s diaspora in Mozambique has been shot dead in Maputo city today morning\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31704 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/c909b829-c0c3-4f9c-874d-a05daeeda154-c53d7.jpg\" alt=\"Two cars carrying people with guns barricaded Baziga who was driving himself and shot him dead in rapid-fire. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Baziga who formerly served as the chairman of Rwanda\u2019s diaspora in Mozambique has been shot dead in Maputo city today morning. <\/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-39904","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\/39904","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=39904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39904"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39904"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}