By RNA Reporter
September 30, 2009
Kigali: Mr. Nyamulinda Dieudonné, lecturer at the University of Agriculture, Technology and Education of Kibungo (UNATEK) in eastern Rwanda is in detention after his students alleged he insulted President Paul Kagame in class, state radio reported.
According to a female student interviewed, Mr. Nyamulinda told the students in a Second Year class that they were more educated than President Kagame. “He also added that the President was an indisciplined student in school”, the female who reported the case said.
The students are said to have demanded to know where he got that information, prompting Mr. Nyamulinda to respond that he read the information from UMUSESO - a controversial local weekly, and on the internet.
Mr. Nyamulinda did not stop there as he also lashed out at students who write about the Genocide “as if there are no other serious issues”, according to the students.
“I was angry and concerned seeing him insulting the Head of State”, the unnamed female student said on Radio Rwanda.
State prosecutors in eastern Rwanda say Mr. Nyamulinda will be arraigned before court on Genocide Ideology charges and bringing into disrepute the person of the country’s top citizen.
The accused could be liable to jail of up to five years for insulting the person of the President, and for up to 25 years for negating the Genocide. The sentences also go with fines of up to Rwf 10,000 for the alleged insult, and Rwf 1million for negationism.
It is going to be the first time somebody is facing the law on charges of insulting the Head of State after the 1994 era.
For Genocide Ideology – a controversial constitutional stipulation which came into force in 2007, there have been several individuals who are now in jail for negating the Tutsi mass killings.
A man is now in jail for forging the official signature of President Kagame.
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