Ex-parliamentary speaker sacked by party

Joseph Sebarenzi Kabuye, who recently resigned as parliamentary speaker, has now been sacked as an MP by his Liberal Party, the BBC Kinyarwanda service reported on Monday. When he resigned as speaker earlier this month, he was accused of mismanagement and abuse of office. The radio said there were now further allegations against him of trying to cause division in the country’s armed forces by calling on soldiers to rebel against the government. He is accused of aligning himself with Tutsis abroad, who support the former king of Rwanda, Kigeli Ndahindurwa V, and who are opposed to the current authorities. The king, who was overthrown in 1961, lives in exile in the US. A Rwandan newspaper, ‘Newsline’, recently wrote that Vice-President Paul Kagame had expressed concern over reports that the ex-king was “seriously recruiting an armed opposition group to topple the Kigali regime”. “Whoever will come (by the gun), will definitely die. We are ready,” Kagame was quoted as saying.