The Secretary General of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) Francois Xavier Ngarambe has said that though some members left the party in the past sighting discontent, it has gained many more members.
Ngarambe said this during a press conference on Monday at the party headquarters ahead of the celebration of the silver jubilee since the party was founded.
“Some members failed to honor the principles that guide the party and were left along the way. However, on the same way, the party gained many more members and they are working well,” said the Secretary General.
Referring to how the RPF stopped the devastating 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Ngarambe articulated that the party has been able to transform the lives of Rwandans in all aspects including their social and economic wellbeing.
“Our party has a reason to celebrate these years of working hard to bring Rwanda to where it is today.”
Talking about the party defectors, Ngarambe said that though they lost the members, they are like the chaff that was removed from the good seeds.
RPF which happens to be the biggest party in Rwanda has had its own share of troubles with former members most of whom living in the Diaspora accusing it of deviating from the original mission for which it was formed.
The party has however according to indicators defied the odds and left its detractors speechless by putting Rwanda in a better place on the international platform eighteen years down the road.
“We don’t have to waste our time looking at who was what in RPF because that is in the past. We should rather look at who is what now and what they are doing to advance the party,” he said.
He explained that the party wants to next generation to inherit leaders that who are visionary and said that they have a programme of training young members to be leaders at an early age.
The silver jubilee celebration which is slated to take place on December 15 this year is estimated to cost Rwf 300 million.
According to the RPF Vice Chairman Christopher Bazivamo, the money will be used to help the needy and holding different celebration competitions.