Rwandan Intelligence Operative Captain Francis Gakwerere: A Resume of a Professional Assassin
The South African Ambassador to Rwanda, Gladstone Dumisani Gwadiso, has been recalled for consultations to Johannesburg, the South African Director General of Foreign Affairs, Ayanda Ntsaluba, told the press in Johannesburg today. The recall deepens the simmering row between Rwanda and South Africa. The row followed the failed assassination attempt against the exiled Rwandan General Kayumba Nyamwasa. On July 1, 2101 the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, through the Director General of Foreign Affairs Ayanda Ntsaluba, implicated the “Intelligence Operatives” of the government of a “Foreign Country” in the failed assassination attempt against the exiled Rwandan General Kayumba Nyamwasa.
Sources close to both Rwandan Intelligence and South African Police had told AfroAmerica Network that the foreign country is “Rwanda.”
A few days later, the Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister, Ms. Louise Mushikiwabo, filed an official complaint with the South African Ambassador to Rwanda.
On June 21, 2010 article (click here: Rwandan RPA Officer Suspected in Assassination Attempt) and June 22, 2010 article (click here: General Kazura Allegedly Implicated in Assassination Attempt) AfroAmerica Network was among the first to disclose, based on the sources in Rwanda and South Africa, the implication of the Rwandan Military hierarchy and Rwandan Intelligence Operatives in the assassination plot. This was later confirmed by other news outlets and social media.
These sources had told AfroAmerica Network that the South African police had arrested a group of six suspects, mostly ex Rwandan Patriotic Army officers. Two of the suspects were subsequently released. Later, a fifth person, a Rwandan, was also arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder (click here: Rwandan Dossier Against Kayumba and Karenzi: Part 3). The suspects allegedly implicated General Jean Bosco Kazura as the ring leader of the conspiracy to assassinate the Rwandan General Kayumba Nyamwasa.
The first person to be arrested was a former Rwandan military intelligence officer, Captain Francis Gakwerere. Captain Francis Gakwerere was then released, pending further investigations, as he did not seem to be the actual shooter or to be immediately linked to the shooting. He was required to report to the police later on. But when those detained started talking, the South African Police could not find Francis Gakwerere. He had vanished and was later found in Rwanda.
And that is where the contradictions and the holes in his story began.
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