Green Party Doesn’t Influence Decisions at BNR–Rwangombwa

{{The governor of Central Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has said French language will not be included onto the new 500 currency notes just because a political party has demanded.}}

The opposition Democratic Green Party of Rwanda released a statement on March 24, saying French language has been sidelined for it was not reflected on the 500 bills yet it is one of the official languages in Rwanda.

In a press briefing, BNR Governor Rwangombwa said, it’s not through requests by a Political party that decisions are made to have French language included on the 500 currency notes and others to be printed in future.

However, Mr. Rwangombwa told journalists that the central bank was still studying several views from different people presented about the new 500 currency note and its from consideration of all their views that a final decision will be taken.

{Central Bank Governor Mr. John Rwangombwa}

{The old note above had both three official languages reflected unlike the new one below that only has English and Kinyarwanda}