Re: EU STATEMENT ON RWANDA CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

Ndi Manjong/Pascal:

CUE posted the following on June 17th this year when it came out in the Sahara Reporters that Kagame had secured a "Third Term Endorsement" as leader of Rwanda. Make what you will of it.

" ... Rwanda's Ruling Party Endorses Kagame For A Third Term 


People,
Here we go again. Another messianic African leader arrogating to himself an entitled right to rule exclusively despite prevalent clear constitutional principles. CUE was in Rwanda a coupla weeks ago for some work and was astonished at the reinvention of a once troubled, awful and cannibalistic people into a once more beautiful country of a thousand hills.  In Kigali, a visit to the genocide memorial would leave the bravely comported, greatly stressed. Sights of weeping callers - men and women - are commonplace there for the free killing fields and frenzied madness that once marked and ruled Rwanda. The gristly memoriam to genocide would make one understand why it is now an offence for anyone to audibly refer to his/herself as a Tutsi or a Hutu. Everyone is now Rwandan and nothing else. Obvious good sense has made the lessons of genocide ones well learned and imbibed. Lots that would hit a first-time visitor to Kigali and Rwandan interiors will  show a country that has apparently healed herself. Incontestably, to CUE, if Kigali is not the cleanest city in the world (not just in Africa) it is certainly one of the cleanest in Africa. A visit to the RDB would offer some of the better attractive investment inflow incentives on the continent. The business and regulatory reforms that Paul Kagame has effected enables one to incorporate a company in just six hours! The rapid growth of ADR in that country under the effective mentoring of Nigeria's branch of the CIArb is phenomenal. Kigali may soon become a viable seat of arbitration following Lagos, Cairo, Nairobi and Johannesburg. The streets of Kigali are as secure, calm and orderly as they are clean and neat. 
In spite of all said here, so what? A third term for Paul Kagame? No! CUE thinks this path is fraught with dangers that engender reverse relapse prospects for a country that has merely even with great determination, tried to sweep her ugly past under the carpet by pretending that they never happened; that Tutsis are no longer Nilotic or Hutus are no longer Bantu or that there was never pogroms fueled by barbaric bloodlust between these two. Paul Kagame in spite of his class act of having pulled Rwanda back to prospective ways, would begin to be viewed by Hutus, no longer as the nationally accepted leader of Rwanda but a Tutsi trying to perpetuate a tribal domination over the Hutus. One shouldn't be a diviner to know what could follow thereafter. Truthfully, one wonders why what's happening in Burundi isn't making any impression on Paul Kagame.
CUE
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On Jun 16, 2015, at 23:22, "Nowa Omoigui nowa_o@yahoo.com [DEFSEC]" <DEFSEC-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Rwanda's Ruling Party Endorses Kagame For A Third Term 

Though the presidential protocol is a two-term limit, the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) is bending to President Kagame's wishes to extend the constitutionally mandated term limits. 

BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK JUN 16, 2015 

The current Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, is being backed by the country's ruling Party to lead the country in a third term of office. However, this would require the Rwandan Parliament to amend the constitution allowing for more than two terms as President. 

Though the presidential protocol is a two-term limit, the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) is bending to President Kagame's wishes to extend the constitutionally mandated term limits. 

The RPF Party released a statement that pushes for constitutional change. This statement was dispersed after 600 high-level members had a two-day retreat in Kigali, the capital. 

"Based on the wishes of Rwandans and Party officials members have recently expressed, we support that the [constitution]... should be amended." 

Apparently, 3.6 million people signed a petition that requested Parliament to alter the constitution so that Kagame could run. 

Some reports have suggested that a majority of the people who signed the petition did so only because of stressful times. 

The suggestion of unwilling signatures is adjacent to Kagame's critics saying that Kagame, as the current President, has utter disregard for political freedoms and should not be elected for a third term.

 

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On Dec 6, 2015, at 5:53 AM, 'NDI MANJONG' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Pascal,

Negotiating to be allowed to establish a military base is different from having an existing military base. The French and the USA already have bases there (the largest for the USA in Africa). The indications are that the USA will most likely object to the Chinese being allowed to have a military base in Djibouti.

NDI MANJONG 


On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 4:38 PM, 'Pascal' via ambasbay
Ndi Manjong,

Check out this site from New York Times as my source of reference on Chinese presence in Djobouti.

Also check out this as reference of China being the biggest African trading partner:
http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/january-2013/china-heart-africa

I am not advocating for people to be robbing us. I am advocating for Africa having control of it"s destiny. 
We don't need a second colonization. We need to be in the position of negotiating for the betterment of our continent.

PK 

On Dec 5, 2015, at 08:16, 'NDI MANJONG' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Pascal,

You are just throwing in a bunch of unsubstantiated contradictions. China is making in roots into Africa. That is not the same as it has undercut the Europeans. The Chinese presence notwithstanding, the French are still incharge in Cameroun. How verifiable is your claim of a Chinese military base in Djibouti? I know the USA has a military base there. You mean small Djibouti has two conflicting military bases? 

Cameroun has tens of thousands of persons in its armed forces. Boko Haram recently showed up and it is very excited about three hundred USA troops coming to the rescue. The USA has apologized times over for its failure of having not intervened in Rwanda on time. How come the AU or some African entity did not feel obligated to stop the bloodshed?

The claim to sovereignty is cheap when all that is there is leadership interested in nothing but plunder through allowing for plunder. There used to be something about the person who pays the piper dictating the tune. If China has undercut the EU then there is not much to worry about its observation on the usual African incumbency manipulation taking place in Rwanda. However wonderful the claim to leadership, leaders are mortal. Do they ever think what will happen when they stop breathing? If the manipulations in Cameroun are bad, those in Rwanda may just as well be bad (what is good for the goose is good for the gander). Plunder and the monopoly claim to leadership is not synonymous to sovereignty.

NDI MANJONG 


On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:07 PM, 'Pascal' via ambasbay
 Due to the unique demography of our Country Cameroon, we need a patriot, with love for our country, who has the will to advance our economic situation and preserve our natural resources for ourselves and future generation. There is a strong geopolitical warfare going on in Africa because we allow it to happen and we are the victims. America is reestablishing its position in Africa as a Dominant western power because China has undercut The Europeans in Africa. Why do we recently have  military bases in Africa. Why China establishing its first ever foreign base in  Djibouti? This divide amongst us is only benefiting the invaders. We really need to understand this for no one has ever and will ever come to Africa "just to help". We don't need the type of exploit story short term help. What has happened for the past 4 decades in Africa can be compared to a prostitute lying naked in public with a bad of money for any any client to fornicate with her for pay! Loss of money, contraction of disease and lack of dignity!! Wake up people.  

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On Dec 4, 2015, at 12:01, 'NDI MANJONG' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Pascal,

The EU has not determined the state of affairs in Cameroun (may be for now); Biya claims the overwhelming majority of Camerounians want him to be president for life. You seem to suggest that the EU could come in if less than an overwhelming majority accepts a leader. The "Ambazonia" of the forum you are on has been to places outside Africa asking for support. You can't eat your cake and still have it. The game in Rwanda is not different from that in most of Africa for the incumbent.

NDI MANJONG 


On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 10:33 AM, 'Pascal' via ambasbay
Who is EU to determine the state of Affairs in Africa? Is Europe our parents that they must bless what happens in Africa? They bring more problems than solutions to our problem. If any country overwhelmingly accept a leader who has an interest in his people, it is their decision. Europe should stop leaching from Africa. They are the root cause of the black plight from whence they they landed their feet in Africa. 
They destroyed our civilization, distorted history and are still doing it. We don't need their approval on the state of our affairs.    

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On Dec 3, 2015, at 19:23, 'Chief Charles A.Taku' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 
PRESS
EN
PRESS RELEASE
892/15
03/12/2015
Declaration by the High Representative Federica
Mogherini on behalf of the EU on constitutional review in
Rwanda
The reform of a Constitution is a transformative process engaging all interests in society, which adjusts norms and rules with the
aim of strengthening and adapting institutions to meet contemporary challenges. It is a legitimate expectation of a country to
revise its governance.
However, the adoption of provisions that can apply only to one individual weakens the credibility of the constitutional reform
process as it undermines the principle of democratic change of government enshrined in Article 23 of the African Charter of
Democracy, Elections and Governance. The amendments to the Rwandan constitution recently approved by Parliament - if
confirmed by referendum - would give rise to this situation.
The EU strongly supports the principle of democratic transitions, based on transparent, inclusive and accountable processes as
laid down in the African Charter. In countries that have consistently respected term limits and allowed for change, societies have
become more resilient and institutions more credible. There are many examples for that on the continent.
In this regard, the EU will remain engaged in support of peace and prosperity in the Great Lakes region and looks forward to its
continued dialogue with Rwandan authorities.
Press office - General Secretariat of the Council
Rue de la Loi 175 - B-1048 BRUSSELS - Tel.: +32 (0)2 281 6319

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