[amakurunamateka.com] How Rwanda's Paul Kagame Daringly Executed A Constitutional Coup D'etat To Entrench His Rule For Life
http://www.democracyinrwandanow.org/news-dirn/2015/5/31/how-rwandas-paul-kagame-daringly-executed-a-constitutional-coup-detat-to-entrench-his-rule-for-life HOW RWANDA'S PAUL KAGAME DARINGLY EXECUTED A CONSTITUTIONAL COUP D'ETAT TO ENTRENCH HIS RULE FOR LIFE By David Himbara It is game over. President Paul Kagame has audaciously executed a constitutional coup d'etat whose objective is to entrench his rule for life. To achieve this brazen deed Kagame devised a Machiavellian scheme for overriding Article 101 of the Rwandan constitution which states that "The President of the Republic is elected for a term of seven years renewable only once" and that "Under no circumstances shall a person hold the office of President of Republic for more than two terms." According to Article 101, Kagame, who has ruled Rwanda for 21 years (as president since 2000 and the country's de facto leader before then), would leave off...