Geoffrey MUSHAIJA
It is worth for Rwandans citizen to celebrate their liberation with happy faces because of self-pride and appreciation explaining their story.
They enjoy their traditions, culture and celebrate their achievements. Rwanda leadership values are the greatest source of joy in stirring Rwandans to greater ambitions. Rwandans are authors of their celebrated inclusive socio-economic transformation and development.
The umbilical cord between Rwanda citizens and their leaders explains their happy faces because Rwanda leaders are beyond the power of position, pay real price of leadership and accountable to them.
Rwanda remarkable performances in women empowerment, food security, public health, security, education, technology, focus on energy and enhancing infrastructure development Rwandans to appreciate and resilient in achieving their desires instead of complaining about the problems but to seek solutions to them.
Sincere and honest Rwanda leadership retreats and national dialogue results contribute to holistic liberation because Rwandans never rest until they find solutions to their problems .Sanity of Rwanda’s electoral politics is a mystery to many observers and commentators.
Rwanda’s electoral politics experiences are void of confrontation, noise and civil strife nurtured by individualistic ambitions. The uniqueness of Rwanda’s electoral politics sanity and consensus is still a puzzle to many.
The heart of the puzzle and sanity Rwanda’s electoral politics lies in her cultural values of above self, focus on national interests and facts speak for themselves from household level to international levels.
Happy faces are a product of responsible visionary leadership that has won the trust of the led to nurture continuity of cohesion and consensus irrespective of political party affiliations when managing citizen aspirations.
The citizens’ wishes guided politics avoid imperfections that can reduce its politics effectiveness. Allegiance to citizen choice provides democratic space to them as essential empowered active partners in electoral politics.
Rwanda’s remarkable performance in various aspects of socio-economic and political indicators at national, regional and global levels is a reflection of Rwanda’s sensitivity to pro-poor policies to reach out to the welfare of the last citizen in the queue in terms of livelihood viability.
Strict, reliable, responsive and accountable pro-poor social and economic security policies and solutions have been the greatest source of transformative and inclusive development ambitions. Rwanda government sensitivity to the needs of the last person in the queue as the epicentre of development focus gives assurance of prosperity.
Government alertness in ensuring a well-tailored policies to specific category of vulnerable poor households to support to become socially and economically viable brings great joy and happy faces unto them which is a true measure of development.
Rwanda’s ambitious pro-poor policies so that no household keeps in misery of poverty but to work hard towards transforming one’s life are yielding remarkable self-reliance mindset. The leadership in Rwanda never gets tired to work for their own people irrespective of difficulties or failures.
The leadership focus on pro-poor schemes empowers poor to become vibrant- a reality to country’s prosperity. It’s very hard for a country or community to prosper without a vibrant and happy citizens.
Therefore radical and realistic pro-poor policies which are executable are fundamental to inclusive development. Countries need prioritise pro-poor policies and serious discussions on how needy people can be transformed.
Mr. Geoffrey MUSHAIJA is PhD (Economics) Land Policy Research Scholar