Children are performing so badly in primary school that the pass mark to go to secondary school has been lowered to 38 percent. She and former state minister for primary and secondary education, Joseph Murekeraho (who too was fired from his post in the reshuffle), cannot explain this.

Moreover, Ms Mujawamariya has a poisonous relationship with every head of a tertiary level educational institution in this country due to her penchant for making impossible demands on them such as the requirement that their faculty conduct top-notch scientific and other research, even when no one has availed them a decent budget.

Ms Mujawamariya and Mr Murekeraho’s tenure as custodians of the country’s education system has been singularly beset by incompetencies. But one of the main issues that ultimately led to their dismissal from there is that many schools upcountry have become hotbeds for hate speech and sentiments that led to genocide in this country.

Also fired was Laurent Nkusi, who has been replaced by Louise Mushikiwabo, one of the new blood in the new-look cabinet.

Mr Nkusi had no business being in the cabinet, and not even the fact that he too represented a constituency could save him. The man was simply passive. Journalists required his help in many ways, and time and time again he failed them.

He would not lift a finger when the director of TV Rwanda, Kije Mugisha, was victimizing people at TVR, suspending, sacking and even jailing journalists for the most trivial reasons.

He would not lift a finger when the board of the national information agency, Orinfor, was doing all it could to sabotage the installation of the by now controversial printing press the government bought to alleviate newspapers’ printing woes.

He would not do a thing to solve a thing. He was just a passive citizen more intent on safeguarding his bread than anything else. It was a good call to show him the door.

Another good call was to bring Theoneste Mutsindashyaka, who was until recently the Governor of Eastern Province, into the cabinet.