President Paul Kagame has blasted people who tend to believe that they are placed in better position to teach Rwanda about freedom and democracy.
Kagame was officially opening the on-going 9th national Dialogue at the parliamentary building where different dignitaries within the country, Rwandans in the Diaspora and friends of Rwanda from international community in their diplomatic representatives attended.
“This dialogue should be a platform to examine how we give ourselves dignity,” Kagame said citing some people who question Rwanda’s freedom.
“They have questioned political space, freedom of expression and democracy. They have made themselves teachers of political freedom, teachers of freedom of expression, they can’t be teachers of freedom when they give freedom to the murders of our own people, freedom to Bagosora and his colleagues now walking free in their territories and you come here to give us a lesson?,” Kagame said.
“We have fought for our freedom and freedoms for others. There are no lessons to learn from these people with double standards,” he added.
Kagame said some journalists, Human Rights activists and masqueraders should not speak for all Rwandans.
He said that some people make it a myth to indicate that only the selected few have the answers to Rwanda.
“They should first get answers to their own problems before they claim to carry answers to Rwanda. Who are you to teach me about my freedom? You come here to teach me about my freedom?, I am not that kind, i am not cheap,” Kagame added.
“They feel they can do anything like what they did to Mutara Rudahigwa, even if they can do anything, it does not make them right,” He noted.
He noted that the reason for external disrespect is due to over dependency hence called for working hard to end dependency because when one is a beggar does not have a choice.
President called upon the participants in the 9th National Dialogue therefore to treat it as a very important and leaving it more than determined to leave beggar spirit behind.
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