The 50-years old Jean Nsengimana living in Huye District and his younger brother aged 43 living in Kigali city were hijacked by Kagame’s police staffs on the 28th September 2019 around 1PM as they were travelling to Nyagatare District, Eastern Province of Rwanda. The police halted the Ruhire Express bus they were travelling in near Karangazi, and called out the two men, and ordered the bus to proceed.
According to one Abaryankuna’s informant, the two men were headed to Nyagatare to visit Nsengimana’s wife Josee NGIRUWONSANGA who had been detained for seven days starting from September 25th,2019 as she was on her way to visit her four children studying in Uganda. The police harassed her and requested her a 500,000 Rwf(545 USD) bribe and ordered her to contact her family members so they can bring her the so-called fine (for us, this is mere corruption since no tribunal had ordered the so-called fine, instead the money was requested by the prosecutor) and they intimidated her that failure to provide this money would result in a 6-month detention.
The police staff lent her a phone so she can call her husband and other family members. At that specific moment, she was informed that the two men were missing. After paying the money, she was released after 20 days in detention. That is when she started looking for her husband and brother-in-law.
Ever since these two men were arrested on September 28th, no one knows their whereabouts, and, according to family members, any efforts to find the two men in all the prisons and safe houses used by Kagame’s police have yielded nothing. Instead, the police men keep on misleading them. A friend of Nsengimana who lives in the Eastern Province where the two men went missing revealed to the Voice of America (VOA) that they searched from all police prisons in Nyagatare, Kirehe, and Remera. They even were directed to Traffic Police but in vain, no single lead on these two men’s whereabouts up to now.
NGIRUWONSANGA (NSENGIMANA’s wife) along with ZIHABAMWE’s wife are still beseeching and insistently searching for their husbands, and reveal that their living conditions have drastically deteriorated due to the fact that their husbands were the home breadwinners, and now it has been three months without them. That also goes without saying that also children at school in Uganda must be panicking and living in indecent conditions since the money and school materials their mother was carrying were also seized when she was arrested.
In the meantime, the spokesperson of Kagame’s prosecution bureau, Marie Michelle Uwamariya, disclosed to the VOA that she has no clue about these people’s arresting and promised to start following it up.
On the other hand, additional news indicates that Nsengimana’s firstborn, Emmanuel Nsengimana (also known as Fils), who is 23, was arrested the last time he came to Rwanda for holidays from Uganda where he studies in secondary school. He was detained for 7 days during which he was tortured and harassed in various ways. He was told that he is not authorised to study in Uganda and was accused of working for KayumbaNyamwasa.
For this, he was submitted to various forms of torture including beating by canes, gun’s stock and all sorts of metals, as well as electrocuting, which is why he consequently had to be rushed to the hospital.
Rwandans are regularly submitted to more and more injustice by the regime that is meant to protect them. Some are killed, others go missing, while so many others are unjustly jailed while their belongings are unlawfully confiscated.
While all this is still going on throughout the country, the regime ceaselessly boasts of sustained security in the country, while some citizens are deprived of this security and literally mishandled by the same regime.
The current Constitution of Rwanda provides that every Rwandan has the right to life, to travel and live in any place in the country. However, Kagame and his sycophants keep on killing Rwandans, holding them in mysterious venues, forcing them into exile, as well as blocking them from travelling both within Rwanda and abroad.
In so doing, Kagame never abides by the various conventions and treaties with other countries that he has signed himself such as the convention establishing the East African Community, of which Kagame is the leader in this year 2019, the African Union (which Kagame headed the last year 2018) convention. All these conventions and treaties provide for free movement of people within and across countries, but Kagame keeps violating them by mishandling Rwandan and Ugandan citizens who dare to cross to Uganda and Burundi after he closed the borders.
The article of Cecile Uwamwezi, translated by Gisubizo Felix.
Abaryankuna Informants