{"id":50991,"date":"2024-07-12T16:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-narrates-narrow-escape-from-fierce-military-guard-in-kigali\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T08:29:19","slug":"kagame-narrates-narrow-escape-from-fierce-military-guard-in-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-narrates-narrow-escape-from-fierce-military-guard-in-kigali\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame narrates narrow escape from fierce military guard in Kigali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kagame narrated that while still living in exile, he regularly visited Rwanda and it was on one such visits that he came face to face with a scary military guard but managed to pull off a narrow escape by pretending to read a book on the street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI occasionally visited Rwanda to check on some relatives. I think it was three times; in 1977, 1978 and 1979. My relative Claver Muyango, a former Director General at the Ministry of Health who used to live in Kiyovu hosted me,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>One day he went for a walk in the neighborhood and met a soldier who continuously called him out but Kagame pretended to read a book he was holding and ignored the soldier\u2019s signals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more he called me, the more I pretended to concentrate on the book until he started walking towards me. When he got close to me, I was a bit afraid and ran away sneaking through the neighbouring houses until I reached home. I even never told the people at home what had happened,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>The Head of State was speaking on his second last day of the presidential campaign in Bumbogo Sector, Gasabo District where he thanked the residents for their hard work and efforts in the collective development of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not come to ask you for votes, I have just come to thank you for your unwavering support and participation in the achievements we have registered so far,\u201d he told the supporters.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke strongly against the discrimination exhibited by previous regimes that condemned its nationals (even those who were in the country) to live as refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame castigated critics who trade the narrative that having peaceful campaigns and elections is an indicator of a lack of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other countries, there is usually chaos and fighting during such times of campaigns. Even in this here people would display hate to the extent of killing each. And that\u2019s what the call democracy?\u201d he wondered.<\/p>\n<p>During the campaign, several people praised RPF for its leading role in ensuring the forward trajectory of the country\u2019s development agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the speakers who shared their thoughts include Dr Yvan Butera and Irere Claudette the State Ministers of Health and Education respectively. They are proud to call themselves the PK generation.<\/p>\n<p>As the campaigns draw closer to the end, the RPF candidate will visit the people of Gahanga in Kicukiro district tomorrow July 13, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The general elections are slated for Monday, July 15, 2024.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-72907 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gssg92mwaaa7rht.jpg\" alt=\"Kagame narrated that while still living in exile, he regularly visited Rwanda and it was on one such visits that he came face to face with a scary military guard but managed to pull off a narrow escape by pretending to read a book on the street.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-72908 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gssg99zwqaa6dhh.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-72912 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gssqxsxxmaallob.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-72913 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gssrdw5xqaao0gt_1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-72911 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gssq5vdw0aautie.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-72910 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gssq6aeagaa63ov.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RPF-Inkotanyi flag bearer and presidential hopeful Paul Kagame has revealed a harrowing tale of how he narrowly escaped from a fierce military guard by disappearing on the street in Kigali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000072906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[3135],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-50991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homenews","byline-sam-k-nkurunziza-2"],"bylines":[{"id":3135,"name":"Sam K Nkurunziza","slug":"sam-k-nkurunziza-2","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":3135,"name":"Sam K Nkurunziza","slug":"sam-k-nkurunziza-2","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":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000072906,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gssg92mwaaa7rht.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gssg92mwaaa7rht.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gssg92mwaaa7rht.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gssg92mwaaa7rht.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gssg92mwaaa7rht.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gssg92mwaaa7rht.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50991","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000072906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50991"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=50991"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=50991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}