29 January 2008
Bujumbura — Hon. Alice Nzomukunda is fighting hard to remain in politics after CNDD-FDD dismissed her from the party for reasons that have never been fully explained.
Alice Nzomukunda says that she will lodge a charge against the leaders of CNDD-FDD who dismissed her for a violation of the internal regulations of the party.
The fourth extraordinary congress of CNDD-FDD on 26 January 2008 took actions against three prominent members of the party: the former finance minister, Denise Sinankwa, who now resides in Belgium; the current first vice president of the national assembly, Alice Nzomukunda; and Hon. Rugira Jean Marie from Bubanza whom the party suspended for only three months.
The ruling party blames Denise Sinankwa for plundering the state's finances after she signed an agreement to pay billions of francs that the government of Burundi owed to the Interpetrol Company. The case is currently in the hands of the judicial system. Alice Nzomukunda started diverge from the leaders of the ruling party and the government when she chaired sessions in the national assembly when the speaker was on a mission to Addis Ababa. She helped the parliament resolve the issue involving the students of Cibitoke whose school had become a waiting side area for combatants loyal to the FNL-breakaway faction. Under her direction, the national assembly succeeded in reinstating the former principal of Cibitoke secondary school.
The members of the national assembly also got their opportunity to demand the setup of a parliamentarian commission to look into the blockage that arose in the talks between the government and PALIPEHTU-FNL. The government did not approve of Nzomukunda's actions which they considered to jeopardize the goals of CNDD-FDD. Hon Rugira has also committed the political mistake of proposing a motion whose intention was to dismiss Gervais Rufyikiri as the president of the senate.
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