Editor,

RE: "Why ban display of goods on shop verandas in CBD?” (The New Times, November 25).

As usual, we, Rwandans, have to be dragged kicking and screaming into progress – on everything! Whether it’s replacing plastic bags with environmentally friendly paper bags, car-free days/zones, updating billboards…you name it. What will you people not cry about?

I have never in my life seen a people so intent on remaining stagnant and underdeveloped. We are like a sick yet petulant child whose mother has to hold in a headlock, just to be able to force the sick child to take its medication.

Belgian/French colonialism really did a number on this country, didn’t it? For the love of God, people!

Dayo Ntwari