

Burundi: Isabelle Ndahayo letter to East African Community Amb. Liberat Mpfumekeko – Re: Deployment of the Election Observation Mission for the General Election in Burundi (08.05.2020)






Last year in 2019, there was reports of a new Social Media Task Force for the National Resistance Movement (NRM), which had up to that point hired 49 people. The NRM already had their Social Media Activists (SOMA). So, they had two units work in co-ordination with each other. This is all attempts to steer the narrative and control the air-waves. Not new in that regard, but using modern methods to hit the public with information.
Just like all the other entities, which are government friendly press like the New Vision Group. The UBC, Government Citizen Interaction Centre (GCIC) and Uganda Media Centre to name a few.
In these COVID-19 lockdown times. The NRM together with the leader of the pack of the NRM Social Media Task Force, Duncan Abigaba have shown that they are feeding 245 bloggers. This is done through the kindness of Muhoozi Kainerubaga or the friends of him. They call them “Yellow influencers or bloggers” because that paint the picture. Even the blogger of Ashburg Katto is in the mix, so it seems its not far from the prison-cell to eating of the hand of the system.
These people will be instrumental to get the right vision ahead of the General Election of 2021. This is why they are even now doing deliveries and feeding them food. They are getting serviced by the state for a purpose. Because, these influencers can sway public opinion on social media and various of platforms. That is why Promoter Baalam and the Social Media Task Force of Abigaba is involved in this.
This is ensuring loyalty, as the payment of some rice and other foods during the pandemic. Will remind these Yellow Influencers whose their friends. They got to eat in the midst of it all, because hey are useful right now and in the future. Their platforms on the various of social media will be vital.
Its like 120 personalities on Social Media and about 120 bloggers, which is getting this treatment. This means these people are included and selected out, because of their writing and their content. This is because Duncan handpicked them and know what their up too.
That is what is striking is the amount of effort and to show their names on social media. These is our folks and comrades. Just go into Duncan Abigaba page on Facebook and the whole list will appear. It expose the ninjas writing and working directly for the NRM.
The Yellow Influencers if you may. The friends of Muhoozi is allowed to give these foods without any reinforcement of police nor any meetings with authorities. Because, they are working in-directly for the efforts for the state. This is partisan politics at its best. That information is being dropped on the day the UPF disclaim everything about Zaake whose healing after torture. That is the sort of state the Republic is in.
Where Yellow Influencers can get a food-drive by the Son-of-the-President. But opposition doing the same to his constituents are healing in the hospital after meeting the authorities. That is the double standard and the realities on the ground.
That Baalam and Abigaba is above Zaake is now clear as day. That the Yellow Influencers are important is clear too. They will be a tool into the elections and the campaigns, spreading the message of the “Yellow Bastard”. Peace.










The elections up-coming in Burundi is pre-fixed, no doubt about it. That is why President Pierre Nkurunziza has signed the decree this month and fixed the date for the 20th May 2020. The day of when the successor and loyal cadre Evariste Ndayishimiye is up. After three terms and two constitutional changes. Suddenly the Supreme Leader of Patriotism will back down. Only showing up for the National Day. Well, I doubt that, he will be the ringleader and the kingpin behind the scenes.
A man who forged his power in blood, a man who used all means to stay in power. Changed laws and fixed the Courts in his favour. Suddenly wants to retire after changing the Capital, because he wasn’t feeling the love from Bujumbura. Well, call me cynical, but I am not buying it.
Surely, he will use the tricks of the trade. Take note of what Joseph Kabila did. The man who ensured relevancy and power of the chambers. However, not have any accountability nor any questions to his reach there. Kabila does that now in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he has the President and his coalition by the strings. They are his puppets under his FCC regime.
While Nkurunziza has seen that and how the West has validated Felix Tshisekedi and he wants some of that. As he surely knows that his state is a pariah state. Righteously so, as all his enemies either ends up dead or in exile. Just like we have seen Uprona, PALIPE-AGAKIZA and ADR-Imvugakuri supporting CNDD-FDD during this late week. Therefore, these elections are fixed, no matter what the CNL or OLUCOME thinks. They can run some rallies and show their faces, but don’t expect any glory.
That glory is for Evariste and Pierre. The rest of you are pawns. You will not be crowned king. The king hasn’t killed, destroyed and built a para-military unit of Imbonerakure for fun. He has done that to intimidate and control. That is why CNL and FNL people suddenly goes missing or stops breathing. So, expect more blood and more tears. Evariste knows and Pierre knows this too.
The election and riots of 2015 was bloody. There might be more, also more death time around as the COVID-19 or Coronavirus is hitting these elections. So, the rallies might become hot-spots for spreading the virus. It will have a month of possible transmission between people. Still, the President and his CENI doesn’t worry about that. It is more important to have a fourth term of CNDD-FDD. That is more vital to the Republic, than possibly making the pandemic hit the Republic harder.
Nkurunziza has already planned this for so long in his office. He has injured so many families and folks to stay in power. He cannot risk losing that and this is his patriotic duty. To ensure his “retirement” and his pay-check as VP for life. He wants to play the big-man in the shadow and control from afar. Instead of getting all the discredit and scrutiny in office. However, don’t be shocked if he suddenly returns too like Putin did. Nkurunziza will never leave, his just on a temporary break.
We could act like we don’t know, but a blood-thirsty tyrant like Nkurunziza isn’t just going to hang up the crown and call it a day. No, I don’t believe that and that would be naive. That would be stupid, because he would risk losing it and be questioned for it all. Even if his own party and Imbonerkura was all involved. He still would have to answer for it in an inquiry or an investigation in the future. An opposition leader would surely dig into that, as he knows someone hurt and dead by this man.
So, the results in May is ready, the are set and cooked. They just need the photo-ops, the smiles, the grins and the postage done. They just needs the stamps, the approval of the Courts and call it another day. That is just in the cards, they are already in play and now waiting for the end-game. Which is pre-fixed. Evariste and Pierre has secured that. Peace.