Rwanda: Agaciro Development Fund is a dreadful and dangerous joke
By Silas Kamiya
Any
simple arithmetic indicates that the forced collection of funds will not work
for long. It is rather being a killing tool to starve innocent citizens who
must give away their mince revenues needed for family basic necessity.
The
practice that is already a month old showed its disastrous results. Small
businesses are closing bankrupted by the desperate Agaciro collectors who
compete to show their work in order to save their own lives face to their
greedy leaders. Asking an already impoverished peasant to contribute to the
Agaciro development Fund is like to pour some oil on his fire. The average
farmers who have been suffering from irrational agricultural policies have no
more resources left for themselves when their supervisors forcefully retrieve
their livestock mostly for themselves under the pretense of funding the ordered
Agaciro fundraising. The salaried population already struggling to make ends
meet can’t even provide 10% of the necessary funds to run for a single month.
The
fallacy to count on Rwandans abroad is also surrealistic and silly knowing how
many can really make a difference for a national budget. It is been reported
that people who are sending some money to their fellows through wiring services
are being ripped off by the Agaciro collectors who are imposing the recipients
to give up more than half of the money they receive.
Besides,
those who can contribute today for the first time are not renewable resources
to afford to provide more funds month after month.
The
irony is that nothing is being proposed for spending reforms. The high ranked
and the well connected to the regime keep burning gas in expensive cars,
getting the disproportional salaries without sacrificing an iota of their
benefits.
The
ridiculous side of this is that nothing is said to stop the causes of the aid
cuts in first place: no plan to stop the war in Congo
The
Agaciro development Fund misleading to be for a public interest is rather pushing
every Rwandan and the entire country to an economic precipice to serve the
dictatorship that stupidly created the problem and unwilling to reverse the
course towards a genuine solution. All the sick is politics and only will heal
by getting rid of the military dictatorship.
posted by Mamadou Kouyate @ 4:33 PM
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