Baziga ligoga,
The Honorable Speaker of the Parliament is not only holding "HOSTAGE" the house.He is holding the whole nation.The honorable is actually CHALLENGING the whole political system.
What amaze me more is that his own political does not disown him.Moreover the entire HOUSE is quiet about such impotant matter.That exactly what H.E the President of the Republic was saying the other day on Contact-Fm.Those guys they like to cover each other just in the case...
Those guys are elected by the People.rather than serving the interst of the population they spend time ennacting laws wich will protect them against the same who put them in places.
If this the case they should dissolve the entire parliament and call up fresh elections.This situation cannot persist
this way.
Sharangabo
baziga ligoga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
baziga ligoga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rutigita,
Since you are on the ground and seems to informed , can you shed some light
on this issue.
I tried to get the article from internet but i missed it some how.
LB
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>Subject: *DHR* Re: ARTICLE 90 OF THE RWANDAN PARLIAMENT!!!(For Baziga
>Ligoga)
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:21:56 -0400 (EDT)
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> Baziga Ligoga,
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> Father THEUNIS should have been an MP in Rwanda.The country is
>spending so much energy chasing out gennocidaires suspect around the world
>while the person holding the third most poweful position in the nation goes
>freely performing important duties,like ennacting laws which will protect
>him against any prosecution.
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> This guy has to go on his free will!
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> Sharangabo
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> De : "baziga ligoga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date : Mercredi 11. Octobre 2006 23:53
>Objet : RE: *DHR* ARTICLE 90 OF THE RWANDAN PARLIAMENT!!!
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> Sharangabo,
>you are now talking.
>BAZIGA
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>sharangabo rufagari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Netters,
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> Apparentely there are a category of People who are above the Law in
>Rwanda.
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> Generals,ministers,ambassadors...everybody can be prosecuted under
>the law.Except the MPs!Article 90!!!Which take precedence over the
>constitution!
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> this is unacceptable! Commit a crime and run for a seat
>in Parliament! And you are safe.
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> Sharangabo
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> MP explains why Speaker cannot be suspended By
>James Munyaneza Thursday, 20 July 2006 Evoking
>Article 90 of the Parliamentary Rules of Procedure cannot lead to ousting
>Speaker Alfred Mukezamfura for his alleged complicity in the 1994 Genocide,
>a parliamentarian has said. Ambassador Gideon Kayinamura (RPF), the
>Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Discipline,
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> told The New Times in an exclusive interview in his office at Parliament
>last week that Article 19 of the Constitution takes precedence over any
>other legal provision pertaining to any action against criminal suspects.
>The Article states inter alia: Every person accused of a crime shall be
>presumed innocent until he or her guilt has been conclusively proved in
>accordance with the law in a public and a fair hearing in which all the
>necessary guarantees for defence have been made available.
>However, Article 90 of the Parliamentary Rules of Procedure seems to
>contradict the Supreme Law of the land.
>It states in part: The Chamber of Deputies may also, upon request by the
>Committee in charge of conduct of Deputies and assessment of the Chamber of
>Deputies activities provided for in I Article 55 and 56 of this Organic
>Law, and approved by three-fifths (3/5) of its members, suspend any Deputy
>who is suspected or prosecuted of any crime until a competent court renders
>a final judgment. In that period of suspension, the concerned Deputy shall
>only receive basic salary.
>And, Kayinamuras committee has been under pressure to evoke Article 90 to
>oust Mukezamfura (pictured) and several other MPs suspected to have
>committed genocide crimes. Mukezamfura and MPs Elysee Bisengimana, Col
>(rtd) Edourd Sebushumba, Edourd Sebushumba and Emmanuel Mwumvaneza, all
>face genocide charges in Gacaca courts.
>However, Kayinamura said the Article has nothing to do with the lawmakers
>though they are exactly in the same state that the article refers to.
>Asked why the parliamentary rules contradict the Constitution, Kayinamura
>argued, There is no contradiction at all; actually the two provisions
>complement each other. However, any law is a subsidiary instrument of the
>Constitution.
>For over a year now, the House has allegedly been marred by infighting and
>external pressure over the matter.
>All the suspected legislators appeared before Gacaca courts to clear their
>names during the data-gathering phase, and are due to engage in a
>full-scale defence during the trials. Formerly a journalist and
>educationalist, Mukezamfura (pictured) is among other crimes accused of
>inciting the public to commit genocide in several articles in Imvaho
>newspaper, a Kinyarwanda government-owned weekly, in the few days preceding
>the 1994 mayhem which claimed at least one million lives.
>In the separation of powers principle, Parliament legislates and oversees
>the activities of government. It does not involve itself in judicial
>matters. The same Parliament that voted the Gacaca law, under which some
>MPs are being scrutinised, cannot circumvent the Constitution and breach
>the same laws it put in place, said Kayinamura.
>He refuted reports that the matter had divided the eight-member standing
>committee on discipline.
>The division of the committee is neither here nor there. The committee
>debates the pros and cons of any issue before it, and in this particular
>case, all members have agreed not to influence the due process of the law.
>By suspending these MPs, we would be sending a negative signal to the
>courts that are handling their cases, Kayinamura said.
>However, his assistant at the committee, Henriette Sebera Mukamurangwa, is
>one of the MPs who is critical of how the House has handled the whole
>issue.
>Meanwhile, The New Times has learnt that the recent resignation of Adrian
>Rangira from the august House over allegations linking him to
>misappropriation of funds meant to construct shelter for genocide
>survivors, has bolstered public calls for the accused MPs to step down
>honorably other than waiting for court.
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>sharangabo rufagari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>Rwandans Call For Speaker Of Parliament Mukezamfura To Resign October 10,
>2006
>VOA, VOA Africa By voanews
> Amid public outcry, citizens in Rwanda are calling for the resignation
>of Speaker of Parliament Alfred Mukezamfura for his alleged role in the
>countrys 1994 genocide. Mukezamfura is accused of inciting ethnic Hutus to
>mount attacks on the minority Tutsis during the slaughter 12 years ago. The
>evidence is reportedly contained in an article he allegedly wrote when he
>was director of a pro-government newspaper. Meanwhile, Mukezamfura has
>refused to resign, challenging his accusers to provide proof of his
>complicity in the genocide. It is estimated that one million people, mainly
>Tutsis, died during the hundred-day killing spree.
> Rwandan sources say calls for the speakers resignation intensified when
>he appeared before a Gacaca court to defend himself against various forms
>of allegations. Mukezamfura has yet to appear before any criminal court to
>answer the charges.
> Senior members of government, as well as some members of parliament are
>also accused of participating in the genocide. But the government and the
>ruling party maintain that everyone is presumed innocent until proven
>guilty.
> Shyaka Kanuma is chief editor of Focus newspaper. He spoke with VOA
>English to Africa reporter Peter Clottey about the call for the countrys
>speaker of parliament to resign.
> Its been almost two years now, ever since people began calling for his
>resignation. Mainly because Mr. Alfred Mukezamfura is suspected of having
>participated in inciting the genocide in 1994 at the time he was an editor
>of INVAHO, which is a state owned newspaper. One of the media organs of the
>state wrote an article that allegedly incited members of the Hutu ethnic
>group to go and massacre members of the Tutsi ethnic group. As you will
>remember, the genocide was all about one ethnic trying to exterminate the
>other . I said allegedly because I have tried to find this article and
>maybe some one removed it from the records. But people who read the paper
>during that time said they saw his byline on it, and they are convinced
>that he is one of the people who was the ideologue behind the genocide, he
>said.
> Kanuma explains the reasons behind Mukezamfuras refusal to resign.
> Actually, if he resigns, then he will be in a vulnerable situation. You
>remember that he is the Speaker of Parliament, which grants him a lot of
>immunity from prosecution. And such a high-ranking member of government,
>not many judges are going to easily begin hauling him before a court, but
>mainly because he has his immunity. If he resigns, he would be basically
>stripping himself of the immunity he has. And Im sure that that might be
>giving him nightmares, Kanuma noted.
> He says people have been speculating that the speaker is influencing
>some members of parliament not to implement Article 90 of a law governing
>parliament, which says that anybody accused of committing a criminal
>offense can cease his parliamentary duties until proven innocent.
> I have heard the allegations myself. But then we also have to look at
>who actually are the people who appoint other officials to political posts.
>At the moment, Mr. Mukezamfura enjoys the protection of the Rwanda
>Patriotic Front (RPF), which is the ruling party he said.
> Kanuma says the Kagame-led government is yet to react to the call by
>Rwandese for the speaker of parliament to resign.
> As usual, they are not reacting much in public. Im sure there must be
>a lot of discussions and a lot of calls for this and that in private where
>no one looks at them, Kanuma said.
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