Another plot to kill Rwandan general

YET ANOTHER plot – at least the third – to kill former Rwandan general Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa in Joburg was revealed in the Jeppe Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Three Rwandans and three Tanzanians are standing trial for shooting Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s former top military commander and intelligence chief in a botched assassination outside his Joburg home on June 19, 2010.

Nyamwasa had fallen out with Kagame and fled to SA in February, 2010. SA refused the Rwandan government’s request to extradite him to face charges of conspiring to overthrow the government and instead granted him asylum, infuriating Kigali.

Last week SA dropped charges against another group of Rwandese and other foreigners for conspiring to finish off the failed shooting attempt by smothering him to death in hospital.

Yesterday another Rwandan witness, Adriani Kamali, testified about yet another plot to get rid of Nyamwasa. He said that two weeks before Nyamwasa was shot in his driveway, he, Kamali, had been offered a total of R140 000 to sneak into Nyamwasa’s house and beat him to death while he slept.

Kamali said Amani Uriwani and Hassann Nduli, two of those accused of trying to shoot Nyamwasa on June 19, had introduced him to another Rwandan named Vincent on about June 6, 2010. Vincent had given him a key to a security gate in Nyamwasa’s house, and had told him that someone in the house would leave a door open so that he could get in. Kamali said he had refused the offer.