KACYIRU - AFRICAN Intelligence officers have plotted new strategies against Genocide ideologies and vowed to assist in the extradition of Rwanda Genocide fugitives in their countries. This was reached at a one week high profile CISSA (Committee of Intelligence and Security Services of Africa CISSA) closed doors meeting that ended on Friday at Prime Holdings in Kigali.“I am confident that deliberations from the meeting will go a long way in providing us with the necessary tools and practices to eradicate the threat that the Genocide ideology pauses,” said Lt. Col. Joseph Nzabamwita, Rwanda’s Deputy Secretary General for the National Security Service, in his closing remark.Nzabamwita also added that if the legacy of the 1994 Genocide continues to remain unresolved by the region, and not addressed by the world, it could re-occur on the continent.He called upon intelligence masters to consider Genocide ideology a continental threat and devise ways to address it.He also expressed Rwanda’s appreciation to host the meeting: “It is indeed our pleasure that Rwanda was chosen to host this important workshop; your presence here is a confirmation of the commitment that CISSA has to the values of cooperation, and freeing the African continent from conflict.” Nzabamwita observed that the workshop was significant considering its resolutions on the CISSA liaison policy guidelines.“It is important to note that the principle of information sharing at regional, continental and international levels is very useful. It is only through sharing of information that Africa can effectively tackle the prevailing intercontinental security challenges” he said.Meanwhile, the Executive Secretary of CISSA, Denis Dlomo told reporters at the end of the workshop that participants discussed several regional and continental security threats.He however said that participants agreed on concrete information sharing to cab insecurity and Genocide threats on the continent.He added that participants adopted Genocide indicators and that all CISSA member States would adopt the indicators as a way of preventing the Genocide on the continent.Dlomo said the resolutions adopted from the meeting will be forwarded to a CISSA conference meeting due next June in South Africa.“The South African meeting will also have to come up with recommendations that will be forwarded to Heads of States for final approval and then later the African Union Peace and Security Council will adopt the resolutions,” he saidThe workshop drew participants from 46 African countries, members of CISSA.The CISSA forum was established in 2004 to help address several security threats and share intelligence information.The Kigali meeting was the second CISSA core business workshop after the one held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2006.During the one week deliberations, delegates also visited Murambi Genocide Memorial Site and the national museum.Ends
