The Rwanda’s performance index on which the so called economic success is based, it is inaccurate, doctored by RPF spin doctors using money and other incentives to lobby some global institutions to sugar coat RPF policies that have kept Rwandans in the prison of poverty.

The index shows how many Rwandans under the RPF government have been pulled out of poverty in comparison to other countries on the African continent. This information is a piece meal for the international community obviously with the Kagame’s foreign backers to mislead and cover up Kagame’s atrocities and other crimes against humanity both in Rwanda and the neighboring Congo.

A according to the 2014 World Bank Doing Business Report, Rwanda is the 32nd easiest country in the world to do business (having come from 150th in 2008); it is also the third easiest place to do business in Africa (after Mauritius and South Africa) and the first in the East African region. Beginning with the above information, Rwanda is the most complicated country to do business if you are not affiliated to RPF, it is worth to note that every lucrative business in Rwanda is owned by RPF or its proxies. In fact it could take years or even impossible to start or do business in Rwanda if you don’t involve the RPF through its subsidiary companies or individuals.

For instance a Lebanese investor who opened up a Bar and a restaurant in Kigali was hunted by the RPF officials until his Bar and restaurant was closed by doctoring that his Bar sells alcohol to minors, “Lebanese restaurant closed, proprietor arrested for selling alcohol to minors”

The former Umubano Hotel was owned by the Libyan investor’s through the late Col. Muamar Gahadafi, however, that Hotel has changed names several times and recently was on the market where RPF was accusing the proprietors of breaching the contract.  But we all know that Umabano Hotel was a profit making enterprise until RPF wanted to step in. Because the Libyan investors did not know the way the RPF mafias operate they refused and this coincided with the fall of the government of late Col Gadhafi, the Hotel now is in the hands of RPF or its proxies.

The Rwandan Investor Tribert Rujugiro who has a chain of investments across the continent, Kagame and RPF ordered his business empire to be taken under the RPF law of Abandoned Property Act.  Does the Global Index report this in its findings?

The same report mentions the women in the labor force as the best in the world, however, they fail to mention that the women who are not cadres or those who submit to RPF demands and ideology will never be employed. This kind of yardstick does not apply in other democracies in the World. For example a lady like Winnie Byanyima of Uganda or Miriam Matembe would never be employed or their relatives in the Kagame government.  Why can’t the World report delve in this kind of behavior?

Again the report talks of Rwandan government as not wasteful as other governments on the Continent, this is simply misleading and incorrect because the top Rwandan government officials are paid high salaries, driving the most expansive cars, Kagame is the only president on the continent with two private executive jets which he rents to the Rwandan government for his own benefit.

The report further mentions the government procurement of advanced tech products, this distorts the fact that most companies that import or export whatever products must be RPF or affiliated with RPF. For instance all government institutions are under instructions to procure all products from the RPF companies.  Does this happen in any developed world without invoking the maxim of conflict of interests?

Apparently, Rwanda is the most repressive regime on the African continent with state sponsored terrorism, in fact whereas in the developing world, organized crime is done by non-state actors, in Rwanda the state will go as far as South Africa to kill its Citizens who do not politically have the same ideology.

Clearly, the world report on the so called economic success fails to articulate to the reality of life of many Rwandans who cannot afford school fees for their children, families who just get one meal a day, many local and foreign investors who have failed to register their business, or those already registered have been closed if they don’t succumb to the RPF demands.  Therefore, the world report findings do not only add up, but it is also inaccurate and misleading with intention of covering up Kagame’s crimes against humanity.

 

Jacqueline Umurungi