The death of President Nkurunziza (RIP) hit hard many people as it came in at a time when he had just almost announced his retirement plan. Nkurunziza, a devout evangelical President Nkurunziza believed he was chosen by God to lead Burundi
On his memorial Nkurunziza’s wife Denise, who has recovered from the virus, said that God had given her the strength to accept what had happened.
“In the Bible, it is written that we must accept God in everything. There was nothing else to do and I did it,” she said.
“Nowhere in Africa, or the world, has a leader been as close to God as president Nkurunziza was,” Ndayishimiye said in a tear-filled speech, adding he was also “the closest to the people”. President Evariste Ndayishimiye was hand picked as Nkuruziza’s successor, he added on that Burundi as a nation lost a father, a friend, a saviour and a head of state.
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