As Rwandans and the world commemorate the 1994 genocide I celebrate Rwanda’s success from the standpoint of personal knowledge. Rwanda is led by a man @PaulKagame who is one of only three or four African leaders with a worldview, i.e. global strategic intent.
This is what our country needs. It’s what I humbly offered our people as a candidate for President in 2019. As a UN official two decades ago I served as Political Officer on the Rwanda desk at UNHQ in NY as Legal Adviser/Spokesman of the UN Int’l Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania.
My first book was “Rwanda’s Genocide: The Politics of Global Justice”. All this was way before my career shifted to economic management. Rwanda has been an inspiration that #Itispossible
We are not too big to learn from Rwanda. #ToBuildaNation
Development is never an accident!
Let’s work together to make Nigeria truly great. It’s a task for us all. No one can be left out. Our future and that of our kids depends on it. But we must one day have a transformative leader with the worldview to create a national ambition that drives us in the same direction.
Right now we are like 200 million people driving in different directions, some to Kano, others to Aba, and yet others to Ijebu Ode. Think for a moment about we row a boat. Can a boat make progress if the passengers are not rowing in unison?
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