by A group of Arsenal supporters started a campaign against the club’s sponsoring deal with Visit Rwanda, in which the deal is scrapped before the next season.
As part of the campaign, Gunners for Peace presented a satirical poster wall from Tottenham in front of the Emirates Stadium. The group said that Arsenal supporters Tottenham prefer to “visit” than to continue to support the Rwandian regime.
The Rwanda Development Board, a government department, has been Arsenal partner since 2018 and also has similar sponsorship agreements with Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain. Paul Kagame, the Rwandian president, is an Arsenal fan.
Arsenal’s contract with Visit Rwanda has been increasingly being examined in the past few months due to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In February, the British government suspended help in Rwanda for supporting the M23 rebel group in the region.
Arsenal’s sponsoring agreement with Visit Rwanda should at least cover the rest of this campaign and next season.
Gunners for Peace recently cited a survey with almost 300 arsenal supporters in which 58 percent of the fans were for the club who ended his deal with Visit Rwanda. On the other hand, the surveyed supporters that 25 percent against the deal ended and 20 percent stated that they did not know.
As part of its protest, the Armmbinden group distributed so that the fans can cover up the match against Crystal Palace against Crystal Palace on their shirts on their shirts on Wednesday evening.
In addition to the Billboard “Visit Tottenham”, Gunners for Peace also produced a satirical tourist video for Tottenham, the home of the violent rival Tottenham Hotspur.
“Visit Tottenham is a joke with a serious punch line,” said James Turner from the Gunners for Peace Supporter Group. “It is difficult to create a worse sponsor than to visit Rwanda, and together with many other Arsenal fans, we ask the club to drop it.”
The Gunners for Peace Group added on their website: “Arsenal is a great club. We have standards. That is why the visit must end Rwanda.
“This is the same regime that financed a brutal militia that commits atrocities against thousands of innocent victims in the eastern Congo.
“We don’t want our club to sell its soul to the highest bidder. And we definitely don’t want to wear it on our sleeves. We think that everything – literally everything – would be better than to visit Rwanda.”
