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Who is terrorizing Kigali ?

Image removed.Different suggestions are emerging from different offices and
personalities to who is responsible for the burgeoning grenade attacks
in Kigali.
Currently as I am writing, there is no clear information announced
publicly to who is really responsible for the attacks. The available information is a suspicious lead from security institution that the attacks are the organised crimes done by FDRL a currently declared terrorist rebel group by UN. Recently, information from Criminal Investigation Department (CID) were suggesting that the attacks involved the  self exiled General Kayumba Nyamwasa and presidential rival Miss Victoire Ingabire who are said to be connected to the terrorist rebel group FDRL. It has emerged that there are evidences implicating the exiled Generals, Miss Victoire Ingabire and others to the attacks according to security reports. On Monday, President Paul Kagame, visited the hospitalised grenades
attack victims now at Kigali University Teaching Hospital of (CHUK) where he showed his support. Over the weekend two grenades were thrown in Nyabugogo a crowded area with commercial activities involving shops, and Taxi Park and the City Centre’s commercial street commonly known as Quartier Commerciale. The grenade attacks claimed one dead while 32 people maintained injuries. The attacks occurred on Saturday the same day His Excellence Kagame became nominated and accepted to represent his party Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) for this year’s presidential candidacy. The former guerrilla war leader that overthrown Juvenale Habyarimana’s regime stopping the 1994 Genocide was marked by some tension due to grenade attacks. The attacks seem to be aiming at destabilising the probable presidential candidate to portray that he cannot protect his citizens. The 52 year old Kagame who was completed his first presidential term since 2003 has accumulated enemies due to his tough way of leadership which has resulted to the imprisonment of several officials inside his government including those who seemed to be loyal and close to him but ended up getting a more than 2 years sentence. Inside source in the military that have issued a day and night patrol says that understanding the enemy is still a problem. However there is a joint team of personnel from CID, Army and Police now put in place to help in investigating to ascertain whoever involved and carrying operations to arrest them. “The problem is that we are fighting with the enemy who is seeing us and we don’t see him,” an inside anonymous source in the military noted. Analysts told GrandsLacs.info that it is evident that people who plan these attacks are within Kagame’s government who try to make him infamous. One of the victims at the hospital said that she saw and can recognise the person who threw a grenade towards them. “I saw that man, I wish you had pictures of people you suspect, I would simply recognise him, he was even putting on an RPF T-Shirt,” said the victim in pain at the hospital. However, according to the hospital (CHUK) Director, Dr. Théobald Hategekimana, all patients were recovering. “Right now we have 10 patients from the grenade incidents. We believe
that about five of them will be discharged in the next few days while others will stay for further medical attention. We received about 30 but transferred some cases to Kibagabaga hospital,” Hategekimana explained. “Reports we have, indicate that, so far, 11 have been discharged from Kibagabaga and the two cases which we also referred to King Faisal Hospital with head injuries are also improving.” Hategekimana pointed out that most of the patients need financial support since they were the ones fending for their families. One of the patients, Gaspard Rwagatare, noted that it was very supportive, that the President found time from his busy schedule, to visit them. Jeannine Mukarurangwa, another patient who was carrying her baby when the Grenade went off, said that at the time of arrival at the hospital, the pain was unbearable but added that their condition has improved. Forrest Calland, a US medical expert at the hospital, noted that most
victims had abdominal wounds and vascular injuries. He said that some underwent surgeries but emphasized that everyone would fully recover.

Jacques Byizigiro