Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame is ready to die defending his country, the pencil thin Commander in Chief assured his combatants on Saturday evening.
He pleaded with the men in uniform and Rwanda as a whole never to allow succumb to external pressure.
“Even at a personal level you can kill somebody. You can shoot me with a gun and kill me. That is a possibility for some people. But there is one thing, that is impossible that can’t happen to me and I wish it shouldn’t happen to our country,” a visibly unsettled Kagame clad in a checkered long sleeved shirt vowed.
He then unleashed a bombshell: “Nobody anywhere can bring me to my knees.” His revelation aroused a thunderous applause, “absolutely not.”
Kagame whose tirade is believed to have been directed to Uganda, again told his countrymen that coming to their knees is a choice.
“There are some people who make a choice to go to their knees. But that is a no go area for me. I can’t and I don’t thing our country should.”
It was the first time Kagame spoke at the lengthy the source of fragile relations between Uganda and Rwanda that resulted into closure of Gatuna/Katuna border post on February 28.
Kagame was speaking at the 16th edition of the National Leadership Retreat, which got underway today at Rwanda Defence Force Combat Training Centre in Gabiro, Gatsibo District, Kagame said his country had been provoked to take certain actions.
The retreat, also known as Umwiherero, will run through March 12.
