Rwanda can accommodate just 200 Channel migrants – and can’t stop them returning to Britain
msn.comreturn to the UK. Yolande Makolo, a spokesman for the Rwandan government, said the country only had one hostel with 200 spaces that was “ready” to receive migrants from the UK.
Other facilities were “in the planning stage” but with no contracts agreed, she told a press briefing on Friday. It comes despite previous claims by Boris Johnson and other ministers that tens of thousands of asylum seekers would be processed in the country.
Officials also said Rwanda was not a “prison state” and there was nothing they could do to stop migrants leaving and attempting journeys back to the UK.
However, attacking claims by charities and even UK officials that Rwanda was a “hellhole, poor and full of disease,” Ms Makolo said it had transformed since the genocide 30 years ago into a vibrant economy with job opportunities and a fair and humane society based on non-discrimination.
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