A Rwandan official says an unsuccessful asylum-seeker in the U.K. has arrived in Rwanda
An unsuccessful asylum-seeker in the U.K. has voluntarily arrived in Rwanda, an official said. The man, whose nationality was not disclosed, did not arrive under a controversial deal to deport to Rwanda migrants who enter the U.K. illegally, Alain Mukuralinda, deputy spokesman for the government, told The Associated Press Wednesday. “We received him yesterday and we are taking care of him,” he said.
business and trade secretary, said the asylum-seeker who chose to leave shows that Rwanda is safe for deportees. “We should be trumpeting it because one of the big arguments about this scheme was Rwanda wasn’t a safe country, and actually people are volunteering to go there,” Badenoch told Times Radio. “I know people who go there on holiday, a lot of people have been.” The deportee was reportedly paid 3,000 pounds to leave.
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