Kagame says slain Rwandan journalist was a criminal

President Kagame has told local and international journalists that the slain Rwandan journalist Charles Ingabire who was shot and killed in Uganda had stolen money from an organization helping orphans which he had headed prior to his fleeing to Uganda.

Charles Ingabire second Rwandan journalist to be killed by unknown assassins in a space of only two years after Jean Rugambaje, another Rwandan working for an online private publication 'Inyenyeri' was shot dead in June 2010 in similar circumstances as he entered his home in Kigali.

President Kagame could neither confirm nor deny that Ingabire's death could have links with his criminal record. According to the International Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalist reports, Rwandan killed journalist Charles Ingabire a week a go in Uganda had earlier on been attacked by unknown individuals who took his laptop and warned him to shut down his website that had been perceived by the Rwandan cross boarder spies operating in Uganda as being critical of the Kagame government.

But addressing the press conference in Kampala Kagame told the press that the slain journalist Charles Ingabire was a wanted criminal in Rwanda who had fled the country in fear of being arrested for theft of huge sums of money that belonged to an orphanage home of genocide victims, the President denied reports that his government is hunting down journalists who are critical to his government.

In another development, President Kagame sounded a warning of taking tough options of dealing with his former Army Chief, Gen. Faustino Kayumba Nyamwasa who he accuses of plotting to over throw his government. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa once Rwanda's army chief of staff and army commander fled Rwanda to seek political asylum in South Africa where he survived an assassination attempt which left him seriously injured.

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