{"id":53,"date":"2010-07-28T19:29:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T19:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=53"},"modified":"2018-09-21T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T12:56:49","slug":"the-best-is-yet-to-come-kamonyi-27-july-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"The best is yet to come!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kamonyi, 27 July 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 80,000 citizens Kamonyi District gathered to show their support to the RPF candidate Paul Kagame. As the crowd sang songs of hope and progress in preparation for President Kagame\u2019s arrival, 78 year-old Michael Bahunda from Rukoma expressed the personal gains that President Kagame\u2019s leadership has brought to his life \u201cthe amount of progress that President Paul Kagame has helped all of us attain is immeasurable\u2026 after losing 12 of my 13 children, today I no longer live in fear, I have a roof over my head and enough food to feed my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As President Kagame arrived, the people&#8217;s joy and eager support reverberated through the field and could be heard from miles away. Dativa Nirere &#8211; one of the locally elected leaders, thanked President Kagame for instilling the belief and confidence that women too can and should become leaders. She finished with a Kinyarwanda saying \u201cnawe wirahira uzamuha inka, arahira uwayimuhaye\u201d meaning \u201cyou don\u2019t thank those who have yet to fulfill their promise, you thank those who have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the cheering crowd, President Kagame took the stage and started by thanking the citizens of Kamonyi for their hard work and their contribution to Rwanda\u2019s economic development. In response to the crowd\u2019s cheer \u201cni wowe, ni wowe\u201d meaning \u201cit is you, it is you\u201d, President Kagame responded \u201cnitwe twese\u201d meaning \u201cit is all of us.\u201d He added: \u201cit is all of you here who will work hard and together to achieve the vision of economic development\u201d. He ended his message by congratulating the crowd for the progress that has been achieved, expressing the nation&#8217;s joy and pride in the accomplishments of the past seven years and promising that the RPF can and will do more for the development of Rwanda &#8211; because the best is yet to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paulkagame2010\/page4\/\"><strong>View photos of Kamonyi and Ruhango Rallies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamonyi, 27 July 2010 Over 80,000 citizens Kamonyi District gathered to show their support to the RPF candidate Paul Kagame. As the crowd sang songs of hope and progress in preparation for President Kagame\u2019s arrival, 78 year-old Michael Bahunda from Rukoma expressed the personal gains that President Kagame\u2019s leadership has brought to his life \u201cthe amount of progress that President Paul Kagame has helped all of us attain is immeasurable\u2026 after losing 12 of my 13 children, today I no&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","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\/53","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13520,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/13520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}