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The hotel management claims that it has the best services to offer to its customers. Though it has opened its doors some two years ago, reports indicate it had no customers since its opening two years ago.
In Kigali’s suburbs, a new address is springing up, Hope Hostel. That is reported to be the first home for those who are going to be the provisional home for hundreds of asylum seekers waiting to be relocated to Kigali. The hotel management claims that it has the best services to offer to its customers. Though it has opened its doors some two years ago, reports indicate it had no customers since its opening two years ago.
Known earlier as the Association of Student Survivors of Genocide (AERG) hostel, the edifice used to be the home for young people orphaned in the 1994 genocide, which took the lives of over 800,000 people mainly Tutsis and a lesser count of Hutus. The 100-bed transit home run by the Rwandan Government now will serve as the temporary home for another set of people -deportees from Britain, who crossed over the dangerous sea in search of a better life, not realizing the ultimate fate awaiting them.
As the number of deportees increases, the Rwandan authorities have plans to build more such transit homes. Availing close to US$470 million through this deal, it may not be a toll call for the Rwandan authorities. While the rights activists have still not given up their fight, there is a sense of fulfillment among the Rishi Sunak camp that they finally won the two-year-old battle. Whether this would lead to any political advantage for the ruling Conservative Party is something yet to be seen. But personally, it was a success for Sunak, who assumed the powers at a very volatile political situation in the country. Even people within his party turned against him. The inconsequential House of Lords, the Upper House, put many riders to the asylum bill, which was negatived by the consequential elected House of Commons.
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Some critics consider the outcome of the controversial asylum bill as a pyrrhic victory for the British. Their question is fundamental: Who is responsible for the sad plight that forced migrants to cross over dangerous seas? It is the backlash of colonization and the mindset to consider the continent as a source for other regions’ development. It is for the West to set the record right.
