Will FDU’s Ingabire deceitful propaganda hold long enough?

Some time back, I promised our esteemed readership a regularly update on the developments within FDU-Inkingi’s preparations for the upcoming presidential elections in our country, but most importantly to enlighten them about the political party’s political program and promises to Rwandans if they were to win. In previous articles, I have based my comments and analyses mainly on the party leadership’s discourse, interventions during different gatherings and their various communiqués that are all premised on their known and sworn ideology - division of Rwandans. All written and aired views by the FDU-Inkingi express their beliefs and more often, intentionally biased analyses of current events in Rwanda, all aimed at achieving their political ambitions driven by their extremist ideology that can only take Rwanda back to its history of the 20th Century. At our disposal, is FDU-Inkingi’s political program as adopted by its political council in Brussels on June 13, 2009. The very first paragraph of the political program sets the tune, presenting an apocalyptic situation of the current Rwanda: “Our country is going through an unprecedented political, humanitarian, economic, social and institutional crisis. Today we reached a point in history where Rwanda is deeply wrecked by violence, misery, exile and death. The national economy is ruined, famine is creating havoc throughout the country, national education has collapsed, public health and national development, especially in rural areas, are shrinking…” The very first question the above statement raised was about the intellectual capacity of the council members. As for their crude dishonesty, this was rather patent. I sincerely wondered how a group of individuals, and I hear among them are PHD holders, could gather and put in writing, purposively laying ground for a “political program” for an existing country, a nightmarish definition, clearly out of their prolific imagination of the said country. Of course one can try to understand their motives – they certainly wish things would be as dire as they portray so they could appear as a relevant and much welcome party coming to rescue a country on the brink of collapse – but to unscrupulously state such outright lies in today’s global village is truly unsettling. “…Rwanda is deeply wrecked by violence, misery, exile and death…!” Is this Somalia or Afghanistan? Even the neighbouring DR Congo where their (I mean FDU-Inkingi) FDLR friends and declared allies continue to create havoc cannot by any measure be described like that. Thus, to unwittingly state such a blatant lie when anybody anywhere, by a mere click on Google or any other search engine, can get as much of information he/she wishes about the real situation in Rwanda, is not only culpably unconscious, but just meant to ultimately damage the country’s interests they pretend to have at heart. And, let none believe that such comments were an oversight of a sort or result of some kind of unwarranted inattention. In a speech Mrs. Victoire Ingabire delivered in a meeting in Brussels on May 1, 2009, she laughably stated that “today in Rwanda, families have one meal per day and precisely at 15H so as to be close to the sleeping time…families survive thanks to our transfers from the Diaspora…” God gracious! She might have heard about these transfers when BNR officials disclosed some statistics of Diaspora transfers as is the case with all other countries on the Globe and opportunistic as she is, she distorted the whole context of the story to insultingly claim that ten million Rwandans survive on savings transferred by a few thousand Rwandans in the Diaspora. Let me tell this lady and her colleagues that I can hardly wait for their coming to Rwanda because I am quite certain that they will be utterly confused by the reality on the ground and will have, however unwillingly, to reformulate their discourses as the world will be following them here in the real Rwandan context and be challenged live by concrete situations. Could she be coming this month together with her husband and child as she might have said on a Flemish TV? That would be highly recommendable if she is serious in her political ambitions, since she has up to now displayed complete ignorance – genuine or not – about what is really happening in Rwanda? I however heard that she was to travel to Canada during this same month to lobby some Canadian officials and try to fund raise some dollars for her future campaigns. The tour was supposed to begin September 12, 2009 but sources tell us that she has not yet left her current country of residence. The reasons for all these delays remain uncertain, but one cannot exclude financial difficulties as a source close to the party revealed that one of their erstwhile major potential sponsor, recently turned his back on them, apparently because he was no longer sure of their intentions and wouldn’t want to be identified with or involved in something totally unclean. Could this potential supporter have learned of the party’s RDR origin and its roots within Ex-FAR/Interahamwe’s genocidaire history? Or as we suggested earlier, he/she could simply have searched current information on Rwanda and realized the dichotomy between what they say and the reality on the ground, consequently leading him/her to doubt their true intentions and real agenda. And like the Kinyarwanda adage goes: the days of a thief are forty; it is indeed apparent that the unsuspecting otherwise well-intentioned foreigners may be beginning to unearth the games behind the infamous name changes from the likes of RDR and ALIR of yesteryear to the likes of FDU-Inkingi. As someone said, time will tell…! Ends

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Will FDU’s Ingabire deceitful propaganda hold long enough?