Kije Mugisha, former director of TVR and deputy director of Orinfor.

Mr Ndahiro had all the time been gunning for Mr Bideri’s job, but unfortunately for him (and for Kije Mugisha who too thought naturally she would get it since she was “second in running”, and for Prime Minister Bernard Makuza who thought that with the departure of Bideri there would no longer be airing of TV footage of his father Anastase Makuza participating in the founding of Parmehutu ideology), none of the plotters got the job.

With his intrigues, Alfred Ndahiro had proven himself utterly unfitting for any position of leadership, and he drew everyone’s ire with his efforts to frustrate the setting up of the first web printing press in Rwanda - a state of the art machine that would increase efficiencies for newspaper publishers with its superior speed, lower printing costs and very much shorten the time spans from when a newspaper enters the presses to when it comes out.

Kije Mugisha too proved very quickly that she isn’t leadership material when she proceeded to alienate herself from everyone she did not like from the very day she first set foot in the premises of TV Rwanda as its director.

The woman proceeded to harass staff she did not like, bombarding them daily with administrative letters (a number of copies of which Focus has) for even bizarre reasons such as being seen talking on the phone. Kije Mugisha even had a couple of employees jailed on the grounds that they were illegally in possession of a tape containing the 2003 inauguration speech of President Kagame at Amahoro stadium.

These clearly were not people to be given the top Rwandan media job.