But he got cold feet. “I can’t kill refugees,” he says. “I’m a refugee myself.” He spent the money on a new car, warned the dissidents of the murder plot, gave a statement to the South African police, and then went into hiding, to the fury of the Rwandan agents. Mr. Tuyishime, though highly nervous, agreed to meet for an interview at a Pretoria hotel after being contacted by Kennedy Gihana, an immigration lawyer and Kagame opponent who had become the RNC’s secretary-general.
Kwa mujibu wa gazeti hilo ambalo kitambo sasa limekuwa likiandika habari mbalimbali za kumlenga Rais Kikwete, Othman alikuwa akihofia kwamba uamuzi wa Kikwete kupeleka jeshi DRC utakuja kuigharimu Tanzania huko mbeleni.News of Rwanda linadai kuwa Kikwete hakupendezwa na msimamo wa Othman,na akaamua “kupunguza nguvu zake kwa kumteua Zongo, ambaye kwa mujibu wa vyanzo vyetu ndiye bosi asiye rasmi wa TISS na kiungo kati ya Kikwete na Idara hiyo.”