Lesson from Rwanda: Poverty shouldn't be an excuse to be dirty

montecarlo · July 13, 2019, 8:58am

Young man…you are free to say and do as you please. I gave my opinion based on facts. You are an African who prefers to see matters prima facie… Rwanda is Kagame and Kagame is Rwanda

montecarlo · July 13, 2019, 8:59am

Post your alternative facts…Rwanda is a house of cards…

magreb · July 13, 2019, 9:13am

I want you to do a simple experiment. Every time you visit an establishment, first go to their toilet then proceed to what brought you in. Iwe pub, hospital, govt office, private office name it, visit the toilets first. After you engagement on what brought you, I want you to prepare three columns in a spreadsheet with headings as establishment, state of the toilet and quality of service received. Populate the spreadsheet with your findings then analyse them.
You should notice that establishments with dirty toilet will almost give you shitty services every time, every day.

Miguu_Stunya · July 14, 2019, 6:25pm

spear:

Rwanda is working because President Kagame as a former spook and intelligence chief in Ug then Rwanda took his ways to government. Strong supervision. From top to bottom he see through his decision filter through to the last person and how it was effected. That’s how he knows who is good, lazy, slow, idle or bad. That strong control can be appreciated by some but hated by others in equal measure. He also able to critic himself, make changes and improve.

The second bit is that most people forget tiny Rwanda controls central and parts of south DRC region that is 20 times its size. That arrangement was setup during Clinton era when him and M7 were the blue eye darlings of the west. A lot of unofficial trade from those regions get to Rwanda off the books before they are flown abroad from Kigali airport or driven to Mombasa for export. The income generated there is shared among west companies, spy agencies on behalf of their governments and Rwanda. They in turn have zero obligation to develop DRC regions they control. Let me put it into perspective. If Nairobi was collecting revenue in 150 counties? How much would that be? Then none of that money collected is sent to the counties as devolved funds. Imagine Nairobi county with an official budget of $20 billion annually and the same unofficially. Nini mtafanya.

Or a better explanation. In 1994 when Kagame conquered Kigali, he received a country with a million corpses. The Hutu genocidaires fled in their millions to DRC and Tanzania with everything including the iron sheets on their huts.

Now where do you get capital to rebuild a country to Rwandas level today in less than 2 decades? Easy!..steal from your neighbor (DRC) and establish such huge flows of illegal cash that everyone keeps quiet and sings praises about you.