Financial crisis should not derail our efforts

Responding to concerns, at the ongoing World Economic Forum, on whether the current global financial crisis will undermine progress elsewhere in the world, President Paul Kagame, rebutted this line of thinking. He aptly responded that this would slow down our progress but it was not a deterrent. “This increases the difficulties, but should not derail us from progress that has been made,” said President Kagame. Promising to forge ahead as he has in the past, explaining that the crisis would only, “provide excuses to those who want excuses”. Indeed ‘excuses’ and victim playing have been the hallmark of many leaders in the Third World. They blame the east, the south, the rains that were too much and those that never came.