Father's keeper: Paul Kagame's son joins presidential guard
- Ian Kagame was part of his father's close security team at a national prayer breakfast on Sunday.
- He graduated from UK's Royal Military Academy Sandhurst last year.
- In the Rwanda Defence Forces his rank is that of second lieutenant.
Also Ian Kagame is NOT his son, his biological father #EugeneGasana the former first lady fooling around buddy!
Ian Kagame, the son of Rwandan President Paul Kagame who is a second lieutenant in the Rwandan Defence Forces (RDF), has joined his father's security team.
The lieutenant's first appearance as part of the elite Republican Guard was during the national prayer breakfast 2023 on Sunday and pictures of him keeping an eye on his father and his surroundings have gone viral.
Clad in a dark suit, a blue tie and a white shirt, Lieutenant Kagame is seen moving in front of his father as he enters the Kigali Convention Centre (KCC) for his address.
In August last year, Lieutenant Kagame graduated from the United Kingdom's Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
He was one of three Rwandans who graduated from the prestigious academy's class of 2022.
The following month he graduated from the Rwanda Military Academy in Gako, Bugesera District, to become an RDF officer.
Lieutenant Kagame joins a long list of children of heads of state who have been thrust close to power through the military.
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In Zimbabwe, Captain Sean Mnangagwa, son of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is a member of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s Presidential Guard.
In Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni's son, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the commander of the Uganda People's Defence Forces and a candidate to take over from his father.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), during the late president Laurent-Désiré Kabila's reign, his son and eventual successor, Joseph Kabila trained at China's National Defence University.
Joseph was chief of staff of the land forces as a major general until his father's death.
In Chad when the late president Idriss Derby succumbed to injuries from gunshots on 20 April 2021 while commanding his army against rebels, his son Mahamat, a military general, rose to lead the interim ruling military council.
In Botswana, the son of the country's founding father Seretse Khama, Ian Khama, left the military as commander of the Botswana Defence Forces in 1998 to become vice president and president in 2008, a position he held until 2018.
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