Kagame: The Game Is Over, Diplomat Says The Rwandan leader, whose regime is becoming increasingly authoritarian, once said in public that no one should be ashamed of being rich, depending on the ways used to get there. Paul Kagame is now one of the richest living African heads of state. He owns two bombardier executive jets and several houses in foreign countries including a three-story building in North London that is being rented to the Rwandan embassy (read more). Kagame Richer than Rwanda Paul Kagame is the chairman of Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) the governing party, the President of the Republic, and the real CEO of the largest holding corporation, Tristar, RPF's investment company that dominates telecommunications, construction, and services. Through all this Kagame is richer than the country. The dividends earned by the largest company in the country MTN Rwanda in which Tristar is the principal shareholder (besides MTN South Africa) go to Kagame – such earnings are secret even to Party Members in whose name Tristar operates. The sale of Tristar shares in MTN Uganda went to Kagame – the amount was a secret. Moreover Kagame controls every single penny earned by Rwandans or from donors. Observers say that Tristar is the major instrument which helped Kagame to amass immense resources now running into Billions of Dollars – not millions, according to sources close to the Rwandan leader as well as his occasional boasts. Money drawn from the National Treasury to finance Kagame "classified operations" Confidential documents obtained by the exiled-Rwandan-newspaper Umuvugizi show Paul Kagame routinely siphons off financial resources from the National Treasury. For example, an invoice of almost US$1 million by ExecuJet which used to fly Kagame's before he relocated his planes from South Africa to Greece was shown by the exiled newspaper. What is shocking is that two high ranking officials in the Ministry of Finance, including John Rwangomba who was still the Permanent Secretary before becoming the Minister, signed for the money to be paid from the National Treasury via an account termed "classified operations". (read more) Kagame's excessive Rent-seeking ventures Rwanda is one of the most aided country on earth following the genocide that occurred there 17 years ago, but the man who once upon time was seen as brand and a champion of the Rwandan people is using foreign aid and taxpayers money for personal use, for example buying two expensive Bombardier Global Express that cost more than US$100 million. Not only did man get 2 "free planes" but even worse, the earnings from renting them to VIPs around Africa and globally runs into millions of dollars. Meanwhile the Rwandan government rents the planes for Kagame's own travel. True to form, these earnings remain "classified". Then there are Kagame's expensive houses in the UK and the US including the building he rents to the government of Rwanda for housing the High Commission. Game up Mr. Kagame. AfricanDictator.org have learned that British MPs from All Party Parliamentary Group for the Great Lakes are considering a general call for a proper inquiry into the use of UK aid to Rwanda. Britain is its single largest donor, committed to a disbursement of at least £83 million per year in Rwanda until 2015. Paul Kagame, the self-styled liberator and seen as Mr. Clean and darling of Western aid donors who rushed billions Rwanda in the guilty aftermath of foreign inaction to stop the genocide has revealed himself to be worse than even the "mad dog" of North Africa Colonel Gaddafi. Kagame was once portrayed as a redeemer, but he has now revealed himself to be a ruthless dictator. Over the years, he's been building resentment and bottling tensions among his own people (read more). One diplomat in the Rwandan capital, Kigali who asked not to be named told AfricanDictator.org that Kagame used to be the man of the time but that the time is
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