Editor,

Reference is made to the article, "Probe team recommends terminating BBC agreement” (The New Times, March 2).

The Ngoga Commission should be commended for the thoroughly professional manner in which they went about their work. Well-substantiated analysis informs their solid recommendations which also closely match the BBC’s crimes against the people of Rwanda.

I particularly liked that the Commission offered the BBC an opportunity to testify and provide their side of the story of how they became a favourite platform for the deniers of the Genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi that took place less than a generation ago and in full glare of the world’s media.

But given their sense of self-importance nobody should be surprised the BBC snubbed that opportunity.

After all, their decision to turn recent historic facts on their head and attempts to inverse roles whose veracity has been proved by so many highly reliable investigations and courts of law, using solely thoroughly discredited activists dressed up as "experts” with well-known animus for the Government of Rwanda, could only have been informed by an over-weaning belief in their own power and, by extension, the relative powerlessness of the Rwandan state and people to hold them to account.

I hope Rwanda Utility Regulatory Authority (RURA) and the Government will implant the Commission’s recommendations in all their entirety.

Mwene Kalinda