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Rwandan president Paul Kagame has appointed a 19-year-old teenager as a minister, claims a message circulating on Facebook since 5 October 2020. Patrick NKURIZA 19 years old, appointed Minister of New Technologies and Development of RWANDA by Paul KAGAME, one version reads . The message claims the appointment was made on 4 October. It includes a photo of Kagame, and another of a young man. Data from CrowdTangle , Facebook’s public insights tool, shows the message has been shared hundreds of times in multiple public groups, attracting thousands of reactions. Has Kagame really appointed a teenager to his cabinet? Smartest boy in London A Google reverse image of the photo of the young man reveals that it was used in an article on people with a high IQ, or intelligence quotient, published in British tabloid the Sun on 24 February 2014. The article identifies him as Ramarni Wilfred, a British boy who was 12 years old at the time, making him about 17 now. It says he has an IQ higher than that of Stephen Hawking . A 2019 BBC interview with Ramarni describes him as the smartest boy in London, with his IQ of 162 higher than that of Albert Einstein and Bill Gates as well. A Google search for Rwanda’s minister of new technology reveals that there is no such docket . Instead, the minister of information and communications technology and innovation is Paula Ingabire , who took office on 22 October 2018. – Grace Gichuhi
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