All the Braverman photos show her visiting the building site of Kigali's Bwiza Riverside Estate, as if it were being built specifically to our house asylum seekers....
It isn't. It was being built anyway. It's just a Kigali housing project. And they wouldn't get to live there anyway until after they'd opted to stay and become resident. So the whole thing is just her going "THIS IS WHAT A HOUSE LOOKS LIKE." Super.
I should say, the Home Office has been in touch to say this isn't true. I'm not taking it down because... er, I think it is? Attached is the first report of this development. newtimes.co.rw/article/193511…
There have been lots of reports since then. None, until this weekend, mentioned any UK involvement. Nor does it seem to be an official UK/Rwandan partnership. Feasibly the Rwandan govt is now putting some of the money from the UK into the development they were doing anyway?
Obviously I would love to know the nature of this agreement on paper, or if there even is one, orwhether a specific number of houses are allocated to those shipped out from here, and so on. But that all seems a bit vague, as yet, at best. They just insist that people sent ....
... from the UK will end up living in this development somewhere, should they remain in Rwanda after 3-6 months in a camp while their cases are processed. Which, for those who can't be bothered to scroll up, is also what my tweet said. So. As you were.
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