Today’s Rwanda needs no refugees

A significant number of Rwandan refugees living in different camps of Uganda has failed to meet the July 31 deadline of voluntarily returning home.Those close to this exercise say the refugees were hoodwinked by some elements within these camps keen on vilifying and mudslinging the significant steps that this nation has moved.Specifically, the refugees were ill advised that should they return home, their lives will be in danger. The beauty about statistics is that they vindicate such ill intended distortions.If one is to give credit where it’s due, then the present administration should be lauded for its systematic campaign to make any Rwandan a refugee no more. Those who fled this nation at different times have been mobilised to return home and they have heeded to this call in millions.If we recall well, one of the famous photos used globally to show the plight of refugees is a photo showing a sea of Rwandans, carrying their belongings and matching in files returning from the former Republic of Zaire.