Rwandan President Paul Kagame has offered to return money given to his country by UK taxpayers for the government’s flagship asylum plan if no refugees end up going to Rwanda.<\/p>\n
In an exclusive BBC video filmed at the World Economic Forum, Kagame was asked about the Supreme Court’s ruling that his country was unsafe. He replied that issues with the Rwanda plan are the “UK’s problem” not Rwanda’s.<\/p>\n
He told the BBC\u2019s Economics editor Faisal Islam, money was “only going to be used if those people will come” and could be returned if asylum seekers did not arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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