Xoloo! Rwandan President spends $40 million pounds a year to get Rwanda on Arsenal Shirt

[Wei]

This is a new low for African dictators. Rwanda is spending aid money from the UK, to support an UK football club.

 

[government]

This is a new low for African dictators. Rwanda is spending aid money from the UK, to support an UK football club.

Rwanda is one of the most developed African nations Somalia should learn from them

 

[Wei]

He do you justify a dictator spending aid money for a logo on a soccer shirt?

 

[Western4Life]

Good idea. $40 million is nothing compared to the investment they will attract.

This is a man who cares deeply about his country.

Rwanda is Africa's jewel.

Shame on the DailyMail for calling him a dictator. He has been democratically elected a number of times.

 

[GeKo]

He do you justify a dictator spending aid money for a logo on a soccer shirt?

It might be a smart move. Those tourism dollars could translate to the hundreds of millions if not billions to their economy.

Many Canadians were angry that this $200k giant duck was bought with taxpayer money but it generated them more than $7 million dollars from tourism.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rubber-duck-toronto-1.4353353

 

[AussieHustler]

Wei

As illustrated above, it’s money well spent given the audiences of the Premier League. Rwanda is one of the very few rapidly developing African countries without underground natural resources. They need the tourist dollar and it is safer than the western countries.

 

[whitehartlane]

Rwanda is at tht level where they need to market themselves ...and the best place to do it is in the premier league in particular a London team....

If you can't afford Tottenham the gooners are a distant second...

 

[Wei]

Rwanda is at tht level where they need to market themselves ...and the best place to do it is in the premier league in particular a London team....

If you can't afford Tottenham the gooners are a distant second...

Since when did you become a Tottenham supporter?

 

[Ahlubayt]

DAily rubbish/

"The Rwanda Development Board generates revenues from sale of tourism products, from which it uses a portion to market its products for further growth. The arsenal deal falls within this arrangement, just like our tourism exhibitions, sales consultancies"


Our national goal is to double tourism revenues to $800m by 2024, from $404m currently. This won’t happen by sitting and waiting, but by being proactive, and marketing Rwanda as a tourist destination in innovative ways. Now- Relax and let the world #VisitRwanda.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.afri...ismisses-critics-of-arsenal-sponsorship-deal/


Statement from Dfid

"UK aid to Rwanda has been carefully and specifically earmarked for programmes that will support the country’s most vulnerable people and help it stand on its own two feet. UK aid is not used for sponsorship deals with Arsenal FC and DFID is not giving any money to Visit Rwanda or the Rwanda Development Board."

https://dfidnews.blog.gov.uk/2018/0...y-money-to-rwandan-sponsorship-of-arsenal-fc/

Don't read or believe anything Daily tabloid shit writes.

 

[whitehartlane]

Since when did you become a Tottenham supporter?

Since Martin Jol days...the first face I recognised when I got to this country...years back..

 

[MarehanBanker]

Daily Mail are hating on the fact that Paul Kagame is investing and improving his country. He is a model of African leadership. May Allah bless him and the Rwandan people.