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’s 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.
“It 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’s 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,” Abbas Mukama said.
He passed on [Tuesday] at Kibagabaga Hospital as he lived at Kibagabaga,” Mukama added.
Hamidou Omar Kiyogoma was appointed as a member of the committee that was charged to draft the 2003 constitution.
A member of Parti Democratique Islamique (PDI) which opposed to President Juvenal Habyarimana’s regime, Hamidou Ismael Kiyogoma was hunted to be killed during the 1994 genocide like other politicians who opposed to MRND’s regime.
After the 1994 genocide against Tutsi erupted on April 7, 1994, Kiyogoma fled to Saint-André College where he stayed until April 14 when an RPF commando evacuated him and saved his life.
The Ideal Democratic Party was established as the Islamic Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Islamique) in 1992. In 2003 the party adopted its current name as a result of Rwanda’s constitutional prohibition of religious-based parties.
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