Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said Monday that he doesn't mind calls for his country's constitution to be changed to allow him to run for a third term.
Kagame, praised for his role in helping to end Rwanda's 1994 genocide but criticized for being increasingly despotic, told a press conference in Uganda that those asking him to run again for president were exercising their freedom of expression, Reuters reported.
Rwanda's internal security minister, Sheikh Fazil Musa Harerimana, was quoted in local media as calling for the constitutional changes.
"I will not be uncomfortable at all with people saying this or the other," Kagame told reporters in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, according to Reuters."There's contradiction, on one hand you say people should have freedom to express themselves. On the other hand, you start questioning somebody expressing himself."

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Kagame and his Rwandan Patriotic Front party have been in power since the end of the 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, when he led a rebel army into the capital to expel a Hutu-led government. Kagame has been praised for bringing stability and economic growth to the country.
But human rights groups say opposition politicians, journalists and civil society activists in Rwanda have been subjected to growing crackdowns. Kagame was re-elected in a landslide last year after opposition parties were harassed and silenced.
Rwandan dissidents have accused Kagame’s government of sending out agents to assassinate critics in foreign countries.