{"id":18087,"date":"2023-08-25T22:08:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulkagame.com\/?p=18087"},"modified":"2023-09-07T07:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T07:13:46","slug":"president-kagame-meets-with-opinion-leaders-from-northern-and-western-provinces-musanze-25-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=18087","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame meets with Opinion Leaders from Northern and Western Provinces | Musanze, 25 August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it mean to be an opinion leader? You need to keep asking yourself, what do opinion leaders say? I do not want being an opinion leader to be taken lightly. We have to work for it. You have to give the right message and do the right thing. If you do the opposite, you are not among opinion leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Our history has been an example of how destructive division can be. We have also seen that it is our unity that has led to our country\u2019s transformation. We have people who lost their family members, and others who have family members who are perpetrators; everyone has suffered the consequences of division. The only solution to this is unity. We cannot accept to return to the destructive practice of division. That would be self-destruction.\u201d President Kagame said in a meeting with over 700 opinion leaders from across Northern and Western Provinces, discussing the recent issue of clan-based division<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat does it mean to be an opinion leader? You need to keep asking yourself, what do opinion leaders say? I do not want being an opinion leader to be taken lightly. We have to work for it. You have to give the right message and do the right thing. If you do the opposite, you are not among opinion leaders. Our history has been an example of how destructive division can be. We have also seen that it is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18089,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18087\/revisions\/18089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}