Time FARG grew up

It seems that some government agencies want to clean house in a dramatic fashion to start the New Year with clean linen which they can proudly show in public. The beginning of a new year should be the time to introspect ourselves, to see what worked for us in the last year and improve on it; and to examine the causes of our failures and chart a different course. If there ever was a government department that has failed the test of time since its inception, it is the Fund for Support of Genocide Survivors (FARG). Year in year out, fingers have pointed to FARG, and the fact that it has become a milking cow to some unscrupulous officials who have diverted it from its main purpose; to ease the suffering of survivors of the 1994 genocide of Tutsis. The biggest culprits in the mismanagement of the fund have been, with no doubt, local government officials.