{UAH} As Paul Kagame's Health Deteriorates, Rwandan Government Allegedly Uses COVID-19 to Impose a Lockdown Aimed at Keeping Top Military Leaders Suspected of Planning a Coup Under Close Watch

JEROME KARABAYINGA  19 JANUARY 2021

Kagame had been conspicuously missing from the public eye since April 2020. His absence has sparked and fueled rumors about declining health and even incapacitation. Sources within the Rwandan Department of Military Intelligence confirm to an AfroAmerica Network correspondent in Kigali that, given the deteriorating health conditions of General Paul Kagame and the infighting among his closest aides (see here: Ailing Rwandan Paul Kagame's Attempts to Cling to Power Through His Daughter Ange Kagame)  and his family on the succession, the military leaders supporting Ms. Ange Kagame, have asked General Paul Kagame  to impose a country lockdown to be able to better watch the movement of unreliable top military leaders. According to the sources,  the current Minister of Defense, Maj. Gen. Albert Murasira, is one, among many,  being kept under close watch. 

Gen. Albert Murasira is being kept under a close watch after information was obtained that he was planning to flee the country. He is accused of being too close to the key top military officers arrested last year and opposed to the planned takeover of power by military leaders supporting Ange Kagame. Ange Kagame's  faction is  composed of former refugees who came from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo and led by General Jean Bosco Kazura, Chief of Defense Staff in Rwandan Defense Forces and head of Burundi desk.

The top military leaders detained in safe houses, under close watch,  or under house arrest now include General James Kabarebe, General Patrick Nyamvumba, General Charles Kayonga, Lieutenant General Karake Karenzi, and Maj. Gen Albert Murasira.

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