Uwashinze Namibia Sam Nujoma yapfuye afite imyaka 95

Sam Nujoma, umurwanyi w’ubwigenge w’ubwanwa bwera bwayoboye Namibia mu bwigenge bwa Afurika y’Epfo ivangura rya apartheid mu 1990, aba perezida wa mbere mu gihe cy’imyaka 15, amenyekana nka se w’igihugu cye, yapfuye. Yari afite imyaka 95.

Urupfu rwa Nujoma rwatangajwe ku cyumweru na Perezida wa Namibiya uriho ubu, Nangolo Mbumba, wavuze ko Nujoma yapfuye mu ijoro ryo ku wa gatandatu nyuma yo gushyirwa mu bitaro mu murwa mukuru Windhoek.

Mbumba yagize ati: “Urufatiro rwa Repubulika ya Namibiya rwahungabanye. Mu byumweru bitatu bishize, Perezida washinze Repubulika ya Namibiya akaba na Se washinze Igihugu cya Namibiya yajyanywe mu bitaro kugira ngo avurwe kandi abone ubuvuzi kubera ubuzima bubi.”

Mbumba yongeyeho ati: “Ikibabaje ni uko iki gihe, umuhungu ukomeye cyane mu gihugu cyacu adashobora gukira indwara ye.”

Mbumba yavuze ko Nujoma “yayoboye abaturage ba Namibiya mu masaha y’umwijima y’urugamba rwo kwibohora.”

Nujoma yubashywe mu gihugu cye cyumutse, gituwe cyane mu majyepfo y’iburengerazuba bwa Afurika nk’umuntu ufite umutima mwiza wa se waganiriye kuri demokarasi no mu mutekano nyuma y’ubutegetsi bwa gikoloni bwateguwe n’Ubudage n’intambara ikaze y’ubwigenge yaturutse muri Afurika yepfo.

Yamaze hafi imyaka 30 mu buhungiro nk’umuyobozi w’ishyaka ryigenga mbere yo gusubira mu matora y’abadepite mu mpera za 1989, amajwi ya mbere ya demokarasi mu gihugu. Yatorewe kuba perezida n’abadepite nyuma y’amezi 1990 mu gihe ubwigenge bwa Namibiya bwemejwe.

Nujoma ni we wanyuma mu gisekuru cy’abayobozi b’Abanyafurika bavanye ibihugu byabo mu butegetsi bw’abakoloni cyangwa abazungu barimo Nelson Mandela wo muri Afurika y’Epfo, Robert Mugabe wa Zimbabwe, Kenneth Kaunda wo muri Zambiya, Julius Nyerere wo muri Tanzaniya na Samora Machel wo muri Mozambike.

Abanya Namibiya benshi bashimye ubuyobozi bwa Nujoma mu nzira yo gukiza no kwiyunga mu gihugu nyuma y’amacakubiri akomeye yatewe n’intambara y’ubwigenge na politiki yo muri Afurika y’Epfo yo kugabana igihugu muri guverinoma zishingiye ku moko, bafite uburezi butandukanye ndetse n’ubuvuzi kuri buri bwoko.

Ndetse n’abamurwanyaga ibya politiki bashimye Nujoma – wavuzwe ko ari Marxiste kandi ashinjwa gukandamiza abatavuga rumwe n’ubutegetsi igihe yari mu buhungiro – kuba yarashyizeho Itegeko Nshinga rya demokarasi kandi rikagira uruhare mu bucuruzi bw’abazungu n’abanyapolitiki muri guverinoma nyuma y’ubwigenge.

Nubwo ashyira mu gaciro kandi akubaka igihugu mu rugo, Nujoma yakunze gutangaza amakuru y’amahanga kubera amagambo ye akomeye yo kurwanya Uburengerazuba. Mu nama y’umuryango w’abibumbye yabereye i Geneve mu 2000, Nujoma yatunguye intumwa igihe yavugaga ko SIDA ari intwaro y’ibinyabuzima yakozwe n’abantu. Rimwe na rimwe yarwanye intambara mu magambo ku kuryamana kw’abahuje igitsina, yita abaryamana bahuje ibitsina “injiji” kandi avuga ko kuryamana kw’abahuje igitsina ari “ingengabitekerezo y’amahanga na ruswa.”

Yigeze guhagarika porogaramu zose za televiziyo zo mu mahanga, atangaza ko zononeje urubyiruko rwa Namibiya.

Nujoma yubatse umubano na Koreya ya Ruguru, Cuba, Uburusiya n’Ubushinwa, bamwe muri bo bakaba bari bashyigikiye umutwe wa Namibia wo kwibohora batanga intwaro n’amahugurwa.

Ariko yagereranije ko hamwe no kwegera iburengerazuba, kandi Nujoma ni we muyobozi wa mbere wa Afurika wakiriwe muri White House n’uwahoze ari Perezida wa Leta zunze ubumwe za Amerika, Bill Clinton mu 1993. Clinton yise Nujoma “George Washington wo mu gihugu cye” kandi ko ari “intwari nyayo y’isi igana kuri demokarasi.”

Nujoma kandi yashyigikiye ko abagore batera imbere mu karere ahanini gakomokamo, agira ati: “Ntihabuze abagore bo muri Afurika babishoboye kandi b’inararibonye kugira ngo bayobore inzira igana imbere.” Namibia yatoye perezida w’umugore wa mbere umwaka ushize naho manda yatowe na Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah manda igomba gutangira ukwezi gutaha.

Nujoma yakuriye mu cyaro, umuryango ukennye, imfura mu bana 11. Ubuzima bwe bwo hambere bwashingiye ku kwita ku nka z’ababyeyi be no guhinga ubutaka. Yize mu butumwa mbere yo kwimukira i Windhoek no gukora muri Gari ya moshi yo muri Afurika y’Epfo.

Yatawe muri yombi nyuma y’imyigaragambyo ya politiki mu 1959 ahunga akarere nyuma gato yo kurekurwa ngo ajye mu buhungiro muri Tanzaniya. Mu buhungiro, yafashije gushinga umuryango w’abaturage bo muri Afurika yepfo yepfo kandi agirwa perezida wacyo mu 1960. SWAPO yabaye ishyaka riri ku butegetsi rya Namibiya kuva mu 1990, Nujoma amaherezo ayiyobora imyaka 47 kugeza yeguye ku 2007.

Igihe Afurika y’Epfo yangaga kumvira umwanzuro w’umuryango w’abibumbye wo mu 1966 urangiza manda yari yarahawe kuri koloni y’Abadage yo muri Afurika yepfo y’epfo nyuma y’Intambara ya Mbere y’Isi Yose, Nujoma yatangiye ubukangurambaga bw’inyeshyamba za SWAPO.

Nujoma yigeze agira ati: “Twatangiye urugamba twitwaje imbunda ebyiri gusa na pisitori ebyiri. Nabakuye muri Alijeriya, hiyongereyeho amasasu amwe.”

SWAPO ntabwo yigeze igera ku ntsinzi ya gisirikare mu ntambara yo kwigenga yamaze imyaka irenga 20, ariko Nujoma yatsindiye inkunga ya politiki mu gihe yari mu buhungiro, bituma Amerika itangaza ko SWAPO ihagarariye abaturage ba Namibiya kandi Afurika y’Epfo amaherezo ikava mu gihugu.

Ubwo yavangaga n’abayobozi b’isi, Nujoma yari azi ko adafite amashuri. Yavuye mu ishuri hakiri kare ku kazi nyuma aza kwiga mu ijoro, ahanini kugira ngo ateze imbere icyongereza. Yavuze ko ahubwo yitangiye ubuzima bwe mu kubohora igihugu cye. Ati: “Abandi bize amashuri yabo igihe nayoboraga urugamba“.

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