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Senegal: Wade Threatens to Sue FAO

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Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (Dakar)

12 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008

Dakar

President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal threatens to sue the FAO, accused of deducting 20 per cent of the aid funds collected on behalf of the African countries confronted with food crisis.

"If the FAO leaders keep on deducting 20 per cent of the aid funds, I will take to the courts. I asked them to pay back what they have already removed", Abdoulaye said on Thursday in an interview with the National Public Television.

"Those who created the institution must provide the operating budget. The current food crisis a setback for the FAO as an institution", Wade said, adding the he is blaming the FAO director general, Senegalese Jacques Diouf, to whose elections he "largely contributed".

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Besides, Abdoulaye Wade pleads for the elimination of the FAO and the transfer of its competences and facilities to the International Fund for agricultural development (IFAD) that will be then turned into a new organisation called "World Fund for Assistance to Agriculture" with its headquarters in Africa.

"The international organisation just swallows up lot money for its activities without concrete results", Abdoulaye Wade added.

"Besides, FAO activities are imitated by others organisations that are more efficient such as World Food Programme, Oxfam and IFAD". "Food policy, a prudish word referring to charity, is out-dated", Abdoulaye Wade said.

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