By Yankuba Kai- Samba
Europe has been giving millions of dollars to North Africa to stop migrants using their countries to cross into Europe by boats. This has led to the brutal treatments of migrants in the North African countries as their security forces arrests subsahara migrants and repatriate them out of North Africa amid racism, rape, incarceration, killings, beatings and selling of black Africans in an open market.
Now Tunisia has returned back a whooping 52 million dollars which the European Union had given them in return for the authority there to stop migrants coming to Europe.
Rwanda should follow what Tunisia has done by returning the 100 millions of British taxpayers money the Tory government gave the government to take UK asylum seekers.
The UK government’s policy of outsourcing their sovereign duty on deciding who to reject or accept as a refugee in UK, to a foreign country in Africa, is not only an abrogation of the UK responsibility to uphold the international law governing the treatment of asylum seekers,as enshrined in the Geneva convention, but it’s also a violation of the Dublin convention, which states that where it’s been established that the asylum applicant had first entered in a safe country, other than the UK, the Home Secretary can remove that subject to the first safe country he arrived in, to claim asylum their. Rwanda is certainly not on the travel route of migrants who desired to enter UK.
The criminal gangs organising and profiting from these escalating human trafficking are geographically spread out and embedded across the world. Their level of sophistication, versatility and determination are a reminder of how an organised criminal network, especially with global tentacles can overwhelmed the intellegence forces.
Europe will need to have a coherent policy to address the root causes of people using such dangerous means of travel to come to Europe.
Wars,conflicts, poverty and undemocratic oppressive regimes in many countries, especially in subsahara Africa where governments are not democratic, transparent and accountable to the voters, often misappropriate funds willy nilly, living their people helpless in perpetual poverty, should be part of the equation to inform Europe responses to what is clearly an evolving, seemingly unstoppable exodus of the productive population from Africa to Europe and America.
Aids to these so called poor countries are by themselves not the solution to reducing poverty. Poor governance, corruption and state capture by a subtle autocratic leaders prompts political instability, which are the significant driving forces for young African migrants crossing to Europe and America.
There must be an agreed mechanism, among European and international financial policy makers to exert more direct intervening monitoring structures as conditional to financial and diplomatic supports in many of the black African countries whose leaders hoodwinked the outside world that they are democratic.
The key words are transparency and accountability as a constitutional duty on the authorities leading these weak states.
Greater emphasis and power to demand accountable in the donor countries jurisdictions, since there are no separation of powers in many of black African countries as we know it in advance democracy in Europe, America and elsewhere.
Sovereignty should not and can never offer protection for criminals in governance in dressed in nice suits, fraudsters, money launderers, fiscal vandalists and those whose actions causes huge sufferings for their people to take perilous ocean journey to Europe, leading to tens of thousands of their citizens perished at sea in an unimaginable horror of death.
