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UDF-Inkingi Presidential Candidate Left Amsterdam for Rwanda

By Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mberabahizi
Secretary General and Spokesperson
UDF-Inkingi
January 15, 2010
Brussels

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Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza answering questions from BBC Gahuzamiryango

Nearly sixteen years after leaving her country, on Friday, January 15, 2010, UDF-Inkingi’s candidate to the forthcoming presidential elections in Rwanda, Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, left Amsterdam, Netherlands, on a KLM flight outbound to Nairobi, Kenya, thus ending her sixteen years of exile.


After a short stop in Nairoibi, Kenya, Mrs. Ingabire will proceed to Kigali where she should arrive this Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 14:55 local time. Mrs. Ingabire is accompanied by three UDF-Inkingi’s grassroots members. At her departure in Amsterdam, Mrs. Ingabire received a warm farewell from nearly a hundred members of UDF-Inkingi who live in Europe as well as from members of her family.

The main purpose of Mrs. Ingabire’s trip to Rwanda is to reconnect with her country at the grassroots level, to go and meet with the real countryside, beyond the Potemkin village that is Kigali. Mrs. Ingabire will also initiate discussions with all concerned parties, especially the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), in order to remove the obstacles that may impede the registration and establishment of UDF-Inkingi's structures in Rwanda like facilitating granting passports to all UDF-Inkingi’s leaders and staff that have yet to be deployed to Rwanda. Finally, Mrs. Ingabire is expected to give some impetus to the development of legal, institutional and financial frameworks so that the forthcoming presidential elections can be fair, free and transparent.

In doing so, despite the obstacles set forth in their path by the RPF ruling party in Kigali, UDF-Inkingi intend to give a chance for peace, by choosing such a peaceful and legal option for Rwandans to really have a choice on August 9, 2010.

The United Democratic Forces (UDF-Inkingi) call upon all Rwandans to welcome Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and her delegation with warm and fraternal greetings without any fear. They also call upon the Rwandan official bodies, particularly security agencies, to demonstrate their readiness to serve all citizens, including when these citizens express views that are contrary to those of the ruling party in the interest of the Rwandan people as a whole.

Done in Brussels, January 15, 2010

Dr Jean-Baptiste Mberabahizi
Secretary General and Spokesperson
UDF-Inkingi

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