The fallen legislator Tharcisse Shamakokera has been laid to rest and honoured a state funeral this Friday.
A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony, observing strict rules of protocol, held to honor heads of state or other important people of national significance.
State funerals usually include much pomp and ceremony as well as religious overtones and distinctive elements of military tradition.
The journey to his final resting place was preceded with a requiem at Regina Pacis Catholic Church in Remera.
The body of late Shamakokera was first taken to the parliamentary building where members of Parliament and other dignitaries paid him their last respects before commencing to cemetery.
The speakers at the ceremony described Shamakokera as a hardworking, zealous and committed person in his days he lived.
The Speaker of Parliament Rose Mukantabana noted that the country has lost a very significant person.
Shamakokera has been a member of Parliamentary Education commission.
The late Shamakokera was born in 1944 in Gahini.
He went to Buhambe Primary School in Byumba, Rwesero seminary in Kabwayi, and later joined the national university of Rwanda, where he pursued linguistics.
During his life, he taught in Uganda at Ntare School, Lycee de Nyabiharage in Burundi.
The 68-year old held different positions in cabinet; He was former Rwanda’s Education Minister after 1994, Officer in charge of social affairs in the President’s Office, Officer in the General Secretariat of RPF- Inkotanyi and Deputy Secretary General in the Office of the Prime Minister in charge of Cabinet Affairs.
He is survived by a wife, four children and numerous grandchildren.
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