Opinion: Time To Drag Buhari, El-Rufai and Others To Kigali, By Festus Adedayo
No one can visit the Genocide Museum without being touched by the unprecedented bestiality. I instantly remembered home and how, ostensibly unwittingly, President Muhammadu Buhari’s hyper-promotion of his Fulani stock at the expense of other tribes in Nigeria, bears similitude to President Habyarimana’s; how Nasir el-Rufai’s glorification of the Fulani “pure blood” can only lead to a Kigali…
The Kigali greenery is something else. Trees are planted on the median and the roads are swept religiously, with sidewalks built into every road. My cabby puts an icing on the enchanting Kigali cake thus, “You drink and drive here and you are caught by the police, you pay 300,000 Rwandan Francs; you drive without license, you pay 25,000 Francs. If you are caught offering bribe, you go to jail,” he said in his barely communicating drawl.
The latest genocide seared the carapace-bony conscience of the world between April 7 and July 15, 1994. It was equally known as the Rwandan Civil War. It was started by a campaign of hate when one Hassan Ngeze, in January, 1994, was quoted as saying, “We… say to the Inyenzi that if they lift up their heads again, it will no longer be necessary to go fight the enemy in the bush. We will… start by eliminating the internal enemy… They will disappear.
“When I think about it, it is like a bad dream… I go after visiting them and leave them there,” a young man who helplessly battled recalcitrant rheum and tears amid a shaky voice, began. “I was ten then when it happened and after it, I can no longer be a child.” According to one of the photographs, which has heaps of bloated bodies stacked over one another, these particular victims had been massacred at a Gismba Orphanage. Another picture, according to the wordings beside it, documents the remains of an estimated 10,000 people murdered in a stadium where they had hidden for refuge.
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