Government says Kenya harbouring suspect

Rwandan authorities said on Wednesday that a Rwandan accused of helping plan the 1994 genocide, was living in Nairobi under the protection of influential Kenyans, Reuters reported. It said, exiled Hutu millionaire, Felicien Kabuga, was living in Nairobi and that Kenya should arrest him. “If there were real cooperation by the Kenyan government, Kabuga could be arrested any time, because his whereabouts are known to the Kenyan authorities,” Reuters quoted a Rwandan official as saying. He said Rwanda’s External Security Organisation (ESO) had records of phone calls Kabuga had made from Nairobi to relatives in Brussels, among other evidence. “It is deplorable that some countries, Rwanda’s neighbours, and even those pretending to be our friends continue to show very little or no cooperation in netting and extraditing well-known genocide suspects who have found safe haven in those countries,” Reuters quoted Rwanda’s justice minister, Jean de Dieu Mucyo as saying. Kenya’s foreign affairs minister, Chris Obure, for his part, said Kenya was not aware that Kabuga lived in the country. “The government would be prepared to cooperate in extraditing Felicien Kabuga if such extradition is sought should it be proved that he is anywhere within our jurisdiction,” Obure told journalists in Nairobi. Kabuga is one of the 13 Rwandans named this year as key suspects by the US state department which has offered rewards of up to US $5 million for information leading to their arrest.