As we approach the presidential and parliament election in July, unrepentant criminal Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza (IVU) whose request to be rehabilitated was denied by court because she did not comply with the law, has filed a case before the East African Court of Justice (EACCJ). She seeks “a re-establishment of her civic rights”, including the right to stand in the next election.
But, it’s obvious, her mission is to only sabotage the election!
With more than five foreign lawyers, including the awardees of so-called “Prix Ingabire” (more of an award for the most outstanding genocide denier in actual sense!) and others who were even banned in Rwanda, Ingabire went to EACCJ. It’s a ploy to gain a platform, and to attract attention from her Western allies; the kind who support her and portray her as “a challenger of Kagame”.
Yet they only seek to keep smearing Rwanda’s leadership, Ingabire’s File doesn’t need regional or international experts in law to understand that there is no case here, her mission is only to disrupt the upcoming election and seeking attention, especially to her Western allies.
Rwanda law is clear for someone to be eligible as a Presidential candidate, and Ingabire’s behaviour makes her ineligible to run for office, One of the requirements is to not be sentenced to a prison term of 6 months or more, In 2010, Ingabire was arrested and sentenced to eight years in prison in 2012, which increased to 15 years after appeal, for crimes related to conspiracy against the government of Rwanda, trivializing the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, as well as the intentional spreading of rumours. Though she was granted a presidential pardon in 2018, she engaged in activities that were contrary to the conditions of the Presidential pardon.
The EACCJ can’t rule in favour of someone who has violated the constitutional laws of its member state, Ingabire, and her lawyers are wasting time, and the East African court can be on her side when rights were violated but when he was sentenced according to the Rwandan constitutional law. Ingabire is a victim of her political agenda that has ever intended to reinject genocidal ideology in Rwanda.
As Rwandans prepare for presidential and parliamentary elections, in July, Ingabire’s intention is to be picked in the Western media as “a Rwandan opposition leader barred from election,” as “a fierce opposition politician and Kagame’s challenger” whose rights were violated, it’s evident that Ingabire’s mindset, still influenced by ethnic divisions that sparked the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, disqualifies her from assuming any political or leadership role at any level.
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