After 20 years in the army, he was serving as a United Nations peacekeeper in Darfur in 2010 when he fell afoul of the Rwandan authorities after making offhand comments critical of two senior Rwandan army officers.
Baada ya kupigwa risasi na kujeruhiwa mwaka 2010, Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje ya Afrika Kusini ilieleza kuwa shambulio hilo lilikuwa la kijasusi kabla ya kuamua kumwondoa Balozi wake nchini Rwanda.