President Paul Kagame has said that Rwanda’s development is not miracles but sweats from citizens that have worked tirelessly.
Kagame was giving his speech which concluded the 9th National Dialogue which attracted hundreds of executive, judiciary, parliamentarians, members of diplomats, friends of Rwanda and Rwandan from Diaspora.
“The good things we have done are clear to all, we do them for our own good not for appreciation or praises but we should not praise ourselves. When you praise yourself it drags your mind and you become complacent. We don’t want complacency but rather development,” Kagame said.
“These good things gives us hope, due to this massive improvements some see them as miracles, even though we have massive improvement that give hope, they are not miracles they are works of citizens from leaders to the common persons,” He added.
“That woman, that man on his level, in that deep villages and his family and all challenges faced for survival, waking up daily for work which all adds up to these good things the nation attain,a cultivator or livestock famer gets luck when the rain falls but the one who has not done any will never get luck from the rain that will fall,” Kagame explained.
Kagame called upon Rwandans should continue to use their strength, knowledge to be a people and conserve nation’s dignity which makes it the prime principle.
According to Kagame, a society has a culture with a discipline which enables one to conserve a dignity which makes one give dignity to others too.
“I don’t agree why we should not value one another’s dignity, that is why there are those who want to devalue our dignity, we should not allow it but rather should give them their dignity which ends up earning us our own dignity,” Kagame said.
Kagame also said that he has taken criticisms from his critic as a positive thing that keeps him check his leadership.
He said no one should discouraged by criticisms but rather a checking scale and wake up factor to work hard or prevent any reason to be criticized.
“Those who like criticizing they cannot ask question in this kind of forum because they fear to be challenged and fear to know the truth because they don’t want to get the truth. There is a person who decide to be rigged to an extent that if given facts he/she is on a wrong side, he adamantly refuses to accept it,” Kagame said.
“On another side I can get something positive from all these criticisms so as not to be complacent because it gives you pressure which makes you check yourself. It reminds not to be complacent and say what if what they are criticizing me is true. I question if what they are criticizing do exist and should be corrected if they don’t exist then let me work hard to prevent them,” he said.
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