Burundians woke up to bizarre news that country’s Minister of Communication, Gabby Bugaga, was found dead in a pick-up truck parked in the middle of a Palm oil plantation. His lifeless body was found early morning, at around 5 a.m., alone, by locals going about their usual daily routines. Officially, government officials immediately began to spin the death as a car accident and quickly released a communique. However, the “accident” turns out to be blatantly a fake narrative to cover up an assassination sanctioned by powerful forces in Burundi.
In Burundi, all government officials, even mere local administrators, have 4 armed police officers 24/7. In fact, Ministers such as the slain one, typically move with a dedicated escort pick-up truck loaded with up to 10 additional police officers with sirens to their own VIP SUVs usually with more security. No reasonable person residing in Burundi would believe that a Minister would be alone at 5a.m., in the middle of nowhere.
Moreover, a video taken by residents that found the Minister clearly shows signs of strangulation living no questions about the cause of death; the Minister was killed and dumped in the plantation. Who would be powerful enough to kill a Minister, move his corpse and dump it in the middle of nowhere, and then force a fake “car accident”? Once again, as foreign observers struggle with the enigma, for local residents, it is very clear: the Minister was killed by the Burundian Intelligence Service SNR, a service that only reports to State House.
“It must be SNR. There are more than 4 road blocks leading to the where the Minister was discovered. Only SNR would manage to go through unchecked and unbothered. Besides, it’s their signature move; they kidnap, torture, kill and dump their victims”, a senior police officer discreetly noted and adding that, “Gabby Bugaga must have stepped on the President’s personal interests or the first lady’s interests. No one else gives SNR such orders”. While exiled journalists, some of whom where former colleagues of the murdered Minister, point to a leaked arm shipment story, others point to a massive digital payment system that the Minister awkwardly refused to award to a company linked to the country’s first lady.
Either way, SNR (also known as “the Presidential Police”), has once again kidnapped, killed and carelessly dumped a Minister. The only question is why?
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