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Paul Kagame setting bad precedence for African leadership

In a televised end year address to Rwandans, President Paul Kagame made clear his intention to run for the Presidency of Rwanda, days after Rwandans overwhelmingly voted for him in a referendum to contest the 2017 general elections for the third term.

Kagame has indeed been the face at the epicentre of the national development and the transformative agenda for the Rwandan people, and has clearly led the country on a path of recovery, peace, stability and security from the annals of the 1994 wanton killings that over time became the worst infamous genocide, ever witnessed in African history.

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