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Opinion: Who is Rwasa building for?

The interim authority wishes to inform the public that this alliance does not involve CNL but rather Hon Agathon Rwasa himself because he was suspended from his position/President & legal representative for cause serious breaches in accordance with the party’s legal texts. The interim Party authority #CNL learned through social networks of a corresp. of Ministère burundais de l’Intérieur, du Développement communautaire et de la Sécurité publique addressed to the Hon. Agathon Rwasa where he engaged the CNL & sealed an alliance with Po organizations not recognized by law & this without the approval of the legal BP” (CNL Burundi, 17.01.2024).

The Party that Agathon Rwasa is still trying to represent him in the year 2024. That party has openly suspended him on the 4th July 2023. That’s why the alliance that he built early this January 2024 in Arusha is on his own merit and own accord.

The Party that he used to be the President for and represent as a Candidate is now over. He is practically out of the CNL party and shouldn’t use the party affiliation, as he makes an alliance with other organizations.

While that might help Rwasa himself and gain popularity among opposition affiliated groups- or entities. It doesn’t make him any more legit and the authorities are even claiming some of these groups are deemed as “terrorists”, which means his going into murky waters here.

Rwasa has been a figure of the opposition and one of the vocal critics of the CNDD-FDD. He has done so for years. Maybe along the way the goal-post changed and he felt larger than life. As the man believed he was bigger than the party. That’s why in the end the party suspended him and he still have to use it to be relevant.

Rwasa knows this and we know it too. His possibly fishing for relevancy and a need for a new political platform. That might all be true, but his falsely using the CNL and the Party to gain traction among others. That is only hurting CNL and could possibly create trouble with the authorities. Especially, when the authorities are writing letters about the coalition and who Rwasa is aligned with. It will have ramification and hurt the party that Rwasa served for years.

Rwasa might feel that he is the personification of the CNL, but that doesn’t make it true either. This is why he was forced to be suspended in the first place. Now he continues to pursuit selfish gains and political points by getting new groups together. That is a risky move and could cost him a lot more. Instead of fighting himself back in the CNL.

He will be further alienating the possibility to return to CNL and the authorities will monitor his every action. As they suspect fellow allies to be “terrorists”. With that knowledge it would be only wise of the CNL to denounce and discredit Rwasa as a “individual” doing the bidding and not his former party. That’s the true reason here.

The regime of Burundi is vicious and brutal towards it’s enemies. That isn’t a secret, but a fact. The CNDD-FDD prefers to silence the ones that are in its way. That is something Rwasa and the CNL knows. They have seen the acts of the authorities and their law enforcement. Therefore, Rwasa is risking a lot by doing all of this.

His plays in the CNL might be forever gone, but CNL might feel the ramification if the authorities are spiteful. While Rwasa might hang around people with sinister motives and that doesn’t make anything better for the Republic. Only causes more blood and suffering. Peace.

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