Rwanda locks its unvaccinated citizens, my personal experience

Episode One: Omens of danger passed, it’s too late now

Matthew 24:15

“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, …)”

 

My name is Kelly Rwamapera, nearly forty years old, a father of three from one wife. We’ve had several addresses in Kigali since 2014 when I joined journalism.

This story is told from my perspective as someone who fears being vaccinated with the Coronavirus vaccine and is still ready not to trade my freedom of conscience with fear for the inhuman treatment in store.

It is a personal experience and my family since the government’s move to block services to the unvaccinated.

As I’m writing this, it is two hours into Wednesday 22^nd December 2021 and I have not been able to get some sleep.

Just an hour before, we’ve exchanged some angry words with my wife, blaming each other for delaying the plan we had to flee Kigali City to the countryside where the situation for the unvaccinated could be tolerable.

The cabinet passed the directives on Friday 17^th December 2021 to limit services the unvaccinated can access including restaurants, hotels, bars, churches, and many more that were not mentioned in the scary yellow papers.

We discussed with my wife that it was high time we left Kigali as we had started seeing the omens of darkness in the skies of Kigali just like we knew it would happen.

We don’t own land or house or anything in the countryside but we have been aware of the approaching paws of him who hunts human beings’ freedom of conscience and decisions on their bodies.

All people in this tiny country live in settlement villages where the directives directly sweep from the front through the backyard but we had hope that one can easily escape to the fenced hills for the sake of being free to make the decisions we want for our bodies.

On Sunday, another directive came from the prime minister’s office that even public transport from Kigali was only for the vaccinated although the whole public transport system in the country started respecting the directive that was for only movements from or to Kigali.

I was at work when I learnt about this and called my wife to inform her of the abrupt change, asking her to speed up the process to move us. I suggested we hire a private car to take her and the children.

She was not prepared to go on Monday and even Tuesday, suggesting that she would leave on Friday 24^th December 2021 as I stay in Kigali, finishing up some little things before I join them as well.

A few hours before we entered into this day Wednesday, a friend in the countryside who had prepared us a house we would enter called to tell us that he had heard that even private cars have been barred from going upcountry.

we slept with this bad news in our ears so we abruptly found ourselves talking about our sealed fate in Kigali, with her blaming me for not taking up the responsibility of a man to take them quickly while I blamed her for not speeding up what we had agreed that would execute.

As we exchange the words, I discover she righter than me, that I somehow behaved like Lot who thought his wife understood the magnitude of danger in delay like he did until the last point.

In the second episode, I share my experience on how the media condemns the unvaccinated and my interview with a local youtube channel on the behaviour of the media and government towards the unvaccinated.

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