Burundi’s police spokesman Pierre Nkurukiye says instructions for the attempt on Willy Nyamitwe’s life were passed from the Rwandan capital Kigali to someone in the Burundi military.

High-profile Willy Nyamitwe was wounded but escaped the assassination bid outside his Bujumbura home on Monday night.

Burundi  police say they’ve known about the plot for some time.

They’ve already arrested a colonel and two corporals.

Bujumbura has repeatedly accused Kigali of being behind the country’s current political strife. Nyamitwe made a presentation two months ago alleging Rwanda was largely responsible for the chaos and instability in Burundi.

His presentation says the course of events and their culmination which is the failed coup of 13 May 2015 sufficiently prove that the acts of destabilization of Burundi were prepared and conducted by Rwanda.

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