A response to the Rwanda's Health Minister, Agnes Binagwaho and Professor Angus Deaton's

Editor's Note: Angus Deaton

Dear Dr Binagwaho, as usual in your Kagamism style whoever disagrees with the Kigali Singapore economic mirage is called different names. At least because Angus Deaton is a white guy from USA or wherever Dr. Binagwaho has showed a kind of respect and called him a racist if Deaton was like me from Rwanda and was either a Tutsi, Dr, Binangwaho could have called him a failure which is fair enough but if he was a Hutu like me, she could have immediately branded me a genocidaire because any Hutu who does not agree with Tutsis like Binagwaho is branded either Interahamwe or a genocidaire. Thank God she didn’t brand Prof. Angus Deaton a genocide denier since it is their new tool to resist any sort of critiques or criticism. They believe that they are the only people who should be always right but they have to remember that when they put their ignorance out there everyone is entitled to his/her opinion here is not in Rwanda my dear where we cannot even sneeze. Binagwaho’s fury is another kind of leadership blindness that we the people of Rwanda know and accept very well. Here in Rwanda there are only a one group allowed to look intelligent, that is the Kagame group and his people, among them Dr. Binagwaho, the rest who are mostly Hutus are either branded interahamwe, genocidaires, or good for nothing who should be rotting in jail to keep the city of Kigali clean.

About health sector in Rwanda in general. You will hear the pro Kagame people such as Bill Clinton, Pr Rick Warren, and Tony Blair the most notorious drumbeaters say that the Rwandan healthcare system is the best. I am a Rwandan and living inside Rwanda. I am an educated guy who has worked for the USAID, OXFAM, WB, and IMF as a consultant. I know everything going on in Rwanda and around me. The health system here is not pro people. Let’s start with the Rwandan health community program called “mutual or mutual.” In 2014 my Aunty Nyirakanyamanza was jailed because she failed to pay her healthcare contribution of FRW 570= USD 0. 78. She was taken to jail locally known as Mabuso and the local defense personnel came and took her only goat and went to sell in order to cover her health insurance. This is the true story about majority of Rwandans but since most of the poor people are Hutus they cannot talk because of the obvious reasons. If Dr. Binagwaho could dare a Western Professor like Angus Deaton, then you can understand what my own mother and myself had to endure every day since we are living is inside Rwanda, especially coming from the Hutu tribe of this country. If we were called racists without being licked up by the RPF military policy navy cruiser, we would feel very much lucky. Dr Binagwaho is used to the Harvard cheerleaders, especially those from the school of Public Health who have been earning bonuses from publishing articles under Dr. Binagwaho and yet she never understands the content of her work although it is published under her name.

Of course the West will never accept that Kagame and his group have been a failure not only to Rwandans but to the entire continent, especially the Great Lakes region where the UN Mapping Report on DRC has said that if it is proved in court Kagame and his team can be charged with carrying out a genocide. Then comes this group of Peter Singer’s like who have been dangerously rushing out endorsement of effective altruism without going into deeper of how that Western aid works in Rwanda. Being in Rwanda and being luckily an educated Rwanda let me breakdown what aid has done to Rwandans, which people like Binagwaho, Rick Warren, Bishop Rucahana will never accept that has been happening. Kagame owns two private jets at a cost of 58 Million USD in a country where more than 70% of Rwandans are struggling to survive on a less than a dollar a day. Of course they will tell he deserves it because he stopped the Tutsi genocide but they won’t tell you that Rwanda had only 6 million when the Tutsi led RPF took over power in 1994 and 85% of those 6 million were Hutus, whereas only 14% are Tutsis and yet more than 1 million Rwandans were killed. If according to IBUKA more than 500000 Tutsis survived out of 840000 in total then who are those 660000 Rwandans killed and who killed them? Maybe our fellow educated Binagwaho can tell us what really happened to over 600000 Rwandans killed in 1994 and where they were buried. Bill Clinton will never admit that his plans to bring a change in African leadership fell flat on its face considering what Kagame, Museveni, Meles Zenawi, and Kabila have been doing in the last 20 years. Kagame has become a king of Rwanda after changing the constitution to allow him to roll forever, Museveni has become the Kabaka of Buganda having ruled over 30 years and still on, whereas the Ethiopia of Zenawi recently killed over 140 University protestors in Oromo and no one ever mentioned. That is what Africans have inherited from the West. When western aid come to Rwanda in the name of scholarship, Kagame will tell you that they will be shared among Rwandans but behind the doors he will instruct people like Dr Binagwaho to identify Tutsi kids to send to western colleges. Among 10 scholarship 7 will be given to different Tutsi kids regardless of their qualifications whereas the rest 3 spots will be shared among Hutus who work as RPF cadres. But when we go to US, Canada, Australia, we are instructed not to disclose our tribes lest the world could realize that Hutus have been oppressed. Hutus in this country are here to pay taxes and Tutsis manage them. That is what we are here for.

Coming back to Kigali Kagame is praised of having more women in leadership but they don’t bring in two important factors that in 1994 majority of the people killed were educated men. They won’t tell you that those Rwandan educated men who were not killed were jailed by Kagame the rest fled the country. Therefore Rwanda remained no educated men apart from women who apart from being women they are easy to control that is why Kagame built on the narrative of women and equality then hid his weaknesses of fearing men in his government, apart from the facts that most men wouldn’t like to work with Kagame because like Dr. Binagwaho, he doesn’t tolerate different views as we have seen in the recent serial killing of his fellow Tutsis who brought him to power including: Col. Karegeya, his personal doctor Dr Gasakure, businessman Rwigara Assinapol, and foreign assassination squads in Brussels which target even foreign journalist such as the Canadian Judy Rever among others. Of course Dr Binagwaho will tell you that we hate Kagame that is why we tell the truth since we are not from the West if she forgive us she will brand us as people who have genocide ideology not genocidaires. Rwanda is a country of a Thousand Hills and a thousand holes. Welcome the country of two tales and to be a Tutsi grants you unlimited immunity.

Thank God there are still few people who accept to tell the truth like Professor Angus Deaton even if it hurts the system. They have chosen to go with their academic professionalism rather than the bonuses from the Kigali government. Rwandans feel relieved and thankful.