PRESS RELEASE
KIGALI – read with consternation, the New Times of Saturday, 6th February 2010. The fire spitting media has revealed its true colors. The title on the front page “Ingabire’s assistant a Gacaca fugitive” alleging that Joseph Ntawangundi was sentenced to 19 years in absentia, is pure fabrications of “the last times”.Joseph Ntawangundi left Rwanda in 1986 for studies in Poland (Wroclaw), returned to Rwanda in 1992 and worked in Kigali (CESTRAL). In 1993, he left Rwanda for ICFTU – AFRO (international confederation for free trade unions, African Regional Organisation, NAIROBI, Kenya) as a Research and Training Officer until 2002. During the genocide, Mr. Joseph Ntawangundi was attending, on behalf of the ICFTU – AFRO, a 2-month training course in Sweden (GANGNEF) and returned to Kenya.
He has never been in the education sector in Rwanda. How possibly could he be in Sweden and back to Kenya and the same time be a so-called School Director in GITWE (Rwanda) during the genocide? Simply the inflammatory reporters don’t even crosscheck what they write when it comes to character assassination.
Since Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza returned to Rwanda, this media has been recklessly poisoning ahead anyway with all sorts of stories without giving any chance to discuss the accuracy of its propaganda.
Mr. Joseph Ntawangundi is ready to challenge the allegations in a court of law.
We don’t believe Gacaca has fallen this low to condemn an innocent who was not even in Rwanda during the genocide, and for crimes committed in a place he has never been to.
This hate and baseless propaganda is another shame in the press history.
UDF INKINGI
Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
Chairperson.
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a “time”, yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
