[citation needed] In late-October 2015, as unrest flared in Burundi, Ndikuriyo gave a controversial speech calling for supporters of President Pierre Nkurunziza to "pulverise" the opposition.
[1] In 2017, in a visit to the Imbonerakure in Gitega Province, 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.
[2] In September 2019, a recording was leaked in which Ndikuriyo claimed to have paid mercenaries 5 million Burundian francs to assassinate a man called "Kaburimbo" in Bururi Province.
[4] 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.
[5] Ndikuriyo founded and directed the Aigle noir de Makamba association football club.