When your entire life is premised on a lie, you can never know what tranquillity or happiness feels like. Daybreak brings with it anxiety and hopelessness, and as the sun sets, so does your optimism for ever seeing happiness. Thus is the life of one David Himbara, who has to live a life full of perpetual despair, having to justify and account for even his breath. The poor man forfeited a life of comfort provided by his motherland for a life of despair, regret and teeth gnashing.
David Himbara’s life is presently a living hell, having to live like a slave in ancient Arabia, where he has to account for every penny he receives from his puppeteer Rujugiro. To put it in American slang, Himbara is Rujugiro’s bitch (or biatch). And his predicament doesn’t seem to have an end in sight, for as long as Rujugiro commands the cash, and Himbara remains a desperate unemployed drug addict.
For him to put bread on the table, (or should we say, a joint of cannabis), he has to stay at the top of his game in a smear campaign against Rwanda. While looking for the job, he presented his credentials to Rujugiro and the other bunch of delinquents as someone who knows Rwanda inside out, and could bring its leaders to their knees with a snap of his finger. Almost a decade later, Rujugiro doesn’t seem impressed and the snake oil salesman is getting desperate every passing day, as he struggles to keep the trust of the bigarasha financier.
The endeavour is proving extremely difficult by the day as manifested in the nonsense he has been spewing lately (has anyone read what he was on about ‘leaked’ speeches?). The pay-per-propaganda blog business is proving to be frustrating, because he the man who, when he was begging for the job, said he knew Rwanda ‘inside out’ is fast running out of content. To keep his boss from closing the taps, he has resorted to fiction. Of course Rujugiro is none the wiser, but I am sure one day he will find out that his expert on Rwanda is selling him snake oil. I don’t even want to imagine Himbara without his daily ration of cannabis. Once this happens, Himbara will know the real meaning of someone being on their own and having no one to trust.
Hassan The Hussler 