Révérien Ndikuriyo (born 1970) is a Burundian politician, currently serving as secretary-general of the
(CNDD–FDD), a position he has held since 2021. From 2015 to 2020, he served as
president
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of the
Senate
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. He has also served as president of the
Football Federation of Burundi since 2013.
Personal life
Ndikuriyo was born in 1970 in Sampeke, Kayogoro,
Makamba Province. He studied science at the
University of Burundi between 1992 and 1995.
He is married and has six children. He is
Hutu
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.
Political career
After graduating, during the
Burundian Civil War
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, Ndikuriyo fought as a rebel with the CNDD-FDD until 2004. From 2004 to 2007, he served as
governor
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of
Makamba Province. He then served as a member of the
Assemblée nationale between 2007 and 2010. During his time as an MP, he served as chair of Administrative and Diplomatic Committee. In 2010, he was elected as a senator.
Senate presidency
On 14 August 2015, following the
2015 Burundian legislative election, he was unanimously elected as president of the Senate.
In late-October 2015, as
unrest flared in Burundi, Ndikuriyo gave a controversial speech calling for supporters of President
Pierre Nkurunziza
Pierre Nkurunziza (18 December 1964 – 8 June 2020) was a Burundian politician who served as the ninth president of Burundi for almost 15 years from August 2005 until his death in June 2020.
A member of the Hutu, Hutu ethnic group, Nkurunziza ...
to "pulverise" the opposition. In the speech, he further used terms that carried connotations of the
Hutu Power
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militias during the
Rwandan genocide
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. In 2017, in a visit to the
Imbonerakure in
Gitega Province
Gitega is one of the 18 provinces of Burundi. Its capital is Gitega, which is also the national capital. It has a population of 725,223 as of 2008 and an area of .
History
After Burundi attained full independence on 1 July 1962, there was a mil ...
, he claimed that Burundi's future depended on the youth wing and that it needed to prepare itself to resist a Rwandan takeover of the country.
In September 2019, a recording was leaked in which Ndikuriyo claimed to have paid mercenaries 5 million
Burundian franc
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s to assassinate a man called "Kaburimbo" in
Bururi Province
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. In the recording, Ndikuriyo claimed that the man posed a security threat to the country.
CNDD-FDD secretary-general
In January 2021, Ndikuriyo was named secretary-general of the CNDD-FDD, replacing
Évariste Ndayishimiye
Évariste Ndayishimiye (born 1968) is a Burundian politician who has served as the tenth President of Burundi since 18 June 2020. He became involved in the rebel National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democ ...
.
In August 2022, he gave a controversial speech at an event commemorating
Adolphe Nshimirimana in which he attacked international human rights groups and boasted that he was undertaking a strategy to militarise the
Imbonerakure, the CNDD-FDD's youth wing.
Football
Ndikuriyo founded and directed the ''
Aigle noir'' de
Makamba association football club. In November 2013, he was elected president of the
Fédération de football du Burundi. He was re-elected to a second term as president in October 2017.
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Presidents of the Senate (Burundi)
Burundian politicians
Living people
1970 births