Readers of the Guardian newspaper are once again victims of a media system that doesn’t have their interests, but rather serves those of a dangerous ideology.
The Guardian editors let a British wannabe author Michela Wrong use it to spread false information and personal-driven vendetta narratives. Wrong pretends to be a credible writer, yet her actions are driven by anger to avenge the death of former Rwandan spy chief Patrick Karegeya.
From start to end, the article by Wrong about UK migrants slated to be transferred to Rwanda, has no facts, but fabrications meant to serve a selfish and racist agenda.
To start with Michela Wrong deliberately gives wrong economic figures about Rwanda. She claims Rwanda’s annual budget is 74% financed by "foreign aid”. Completely false.
The current financial year 2022/23 budget is over Rwf 4.66trillion (about $4.6billion).
Total domestic resources and external loans combined account for 80.5% of the entire budget, whereas external grants (foreign aid) are at 19.5% of the budget.
To explain it in simple language, domestic resources refers to taxes collected from inside Rwanda. Loans are money got from the international financial markets, which is paid back from the same taxes by Rwandans. All nations everywhere borrow to finance internal spending.
The U.S. spends over 20% of its annual budget on paying back debt. The UK and many others make similar payments.
As for external grants, which Michela Wrong refers to as "foreign aid”, this is funding which partners like the UK, US, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, World Bank, United Nations and many other partners, contribute to Rwanda’s programs.
In any case, much of this aid money goes to funding programs aimed at strengthening the interests of the same donors.
So Wrong’s claim on foreign aid to Rwanda is a debunked falsehood. She repeats a narrative from the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) propagandist Dr David Himbara. Not unexpected, as those are her family-in-law.
The other fabricated information is that at the US-Africa summit last week, US President Joe Biden held a "tete-a-tete” with DRC President Felix Tshisekedi at the White House. FALSE.
I do not have to make any new claims, as cameras were at the White House. The Readout from the meeting says President Joe Biden met together the Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Madagascar, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
However, seconds before the start of the summit, the leaders took turns for photo Ops. The accidental Congolese president was elated, a feat his government jumped on to, hoodwinking suffering Congolese that their leader is making international impact.
I can go on and on about the fabrications that the Guardian editors allowed to go through Wrong’s article, all in the name of attempting to undermine Rwanda and its leaders. That has never worked, and won’t either this time.
The central theme of these falsehoods bundled together, was about the a UK High Court ruling as lawful, the migrants deal between London and Kigali.
Michela Wrong bellows fake concern for the plight of the migrants who are victims of an inhumane smuggling ring. Wrong wants you to believe that she is genuinely affected by the suffering of the migrants. Typical Muzungu tears.
If indeed Wrong is so depressed about the plight of the migrants, how about she goes to one of those holding centers in the UK, to adopt one of the babies there.
I think that would go a very long way to show Guardian readers that Michela Wrong truly feels the pain of the migrants.
Otherwise, Wrong's cries are those of a racist widowed concubine unwilling to let go of a painful episode in her life.