Member of Parliament Capt (rtd) Logan Ndahiro passed away Wednesday night at King Faisal Hospital Kigali. He succumbed to illness at around 11:30p.m, sources said. The former parliamentarian was 68. Ndahiro joined the former Rwanda Patriotic Army (later renamed Rwanda Defence Force) on October 5, 1990 in the early days of the liberation struggle. He retired from the military in 2001. Since 1994 when the country was liberated he served in different capacities in the military as well as other organisations. He was also an author, with a keen interest in documenting the history of the liberation struggle. He was the author of the book, “Inzira y’inzitane yo kwibohora kw’ Abanyarwanda” (loosely translated to mean ‘the difficult journey of the liberation of Rwandans’) in which he gave a detailed account of the RPF-led campaign to liberate Rwanda. Born in Nyagatare in Eastern Province in 1951, Ndahiro attended his primary education in Nyagatare before his family – along with hundreds of thousands of other Rwandans – fled from pogroms that targeted the Tutsi to Uganda. There, he attended his secondary education and went on to obtain a Bachelor’s degree. He later went to the United States where he obtained a Master’s Degree in Public Health. From 1994 to 2001, Ndahiro worked at the Ministry of Health where he was in charge of the mental health unit. From 2002-2003, he worked with the International Rescue Committee heading the HIV Unit. Ndahiro was elected to the Chamber of Deputies last year on the ticket of the governing Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF). He was the oldest member of the Lower Chamber of Parliament.
