Kampala — Hundreds of millions of dollars in donor aid have been withheld from Uganda in recent months, threatening post-war rehabilitation in the northern region and key public investments across the country.
Keith Muhakanizi, deputy secretary to the Treasury, told IRIN that donors, under a Joint Budget Support Framework (JBSF) - including the World Bank, European Union, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom - have suspended "about US$260 million", or 6 percent of the annual budget for at least six months.
The cuts followed allegations that officials in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) embezzled up to $13 million in donor funds intended for recovery in the northern region.
Uganda is trying to win back donor esteem by meeting their conditions - Denmark, for instance, has demanded a full refund of stolen money, the introduction of better control systems, and written confirmation of the government's commitment to crack down on corrupt officials. Uganda has vowed to recover the stolen funds, boost the accountability to its public financial system, and prosecute guilty officials.
At least 12 implicated OPM employees have been suspended, and two senior officials are on remand facing prosecution. Hearings through a public accounts committee are ongoing, and Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper reported on 13 December that the cabinet had approved a measure to refund $15.5 million to donors from the government's consolidated fund.
Muhakanizi said public services would not be impacted by the cuts until the next financial quarter, starting January 2013, when another instalment of donor funds is due to be released.
"We will take adjustment measures where necessary across the board," he said.
Economic fallout
Uganda has already shifted its budget priorities once this financial year. In September, members of parliament refused to pass the budget without additional funding being allocated for the recruitment of health workers. Josephine Watera, lead researcher on the Parliamentary Social Services Committee behind that resolution, says more than $100 million in extra funds were eventually granted and pulled from a number of sectors.
Though she insisted that budget battle was necessary for the survival of the country's deteriorating health sector, she said government's short-term fixes will have unforeseen long-term impacts on the sectors the money is moved from.
"The Ministry of Finance says it is not impacted by the donor funds [being suspended]," Watera said. "And maybe we will mostly feel the impact two years later, but shifting money in the budget will not see it replaced to where it came from."
Government is the biggest spender in its economy - with cuts, everything suffers
With relatively low domestic revenue collection (13 percent of Uganda's GDP, the lowest in the region) and much-awaited crude oil production still years away, analysts say the aid cuts will likely be devastating for the Ugandan economy. The country is still recovering from last year's high inflation, which hit 30.5 percent in October 2011. Tax collection and domestic borrowing make up the 75 percent of the budget not funded by donors.
"Government is the biggest spender in its economy - with cuts, everything suffers," said Angelo Izama, a political affairs analyst at the US-based Open Society Foundation.
Uganda's central bank has said the suspension of aid will cut the country's economic growth by 0.7 percent, reducing its projected 4.3 percent growth in the 2012-2013 financial year to 3.6 percent.
According to Izama, Uganda can expect to see stagnated social services, civil servant layoffs and delayed infrastructure projects due to contract breaches in the coming months.
Northern recovery at risk
With donations withheld pending the results of ongoing investigations, the fate of programmes under the troubled Peace, Recovery and Development Plan for Northern Uganda (PRDP) are in limbo. Though the government plan ended in June, an extension was due to run from July 2012 to 2015.
Ireland was the first donor to respond to the corruption allegations, suspending approximately $20 million from the budget in October. Fionnula Quinlan, a press officer with Irish Aid, said the money was due to build schools, fund basic infrastructure such as water supply, improve public financial management and prevent gender-based violence.
On 28 November, Sweden issued a statement demanding that Uganda repay some $6.7 million - the full amount Sweden contributed to roads, schools, health clinics, legal system and water supply through the PRDP - though it has not yet been able to verify that the full amount of this money was misused.
The initial result of an independent Swedish study "reinforces suspicions of embezzlement and shows that the scale is significant," the statement said.
"We are aware that our recovery might slow down some development in northern Uganda, and it is extremely regrettable," said Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, the director general of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).
The Ugandan government operates a cash budget, which works on an estimate of assets, as opposed to an operating budget, which works on forecasted revenues and expenses. If Uganda's coffers from taxes, loans or donors are empty, ministries and implementing districts will be left in the lurch.
"By cutting aid they are not punishing us [leaders] but killing children and women out in the villages who are in dire need of service delivery out there," said David Odongo, chairperson of Aleptong District in the Lango subregion.
Martin Ojara Mapinduzi, the district chairman of Gulu District, in northern Uganda's Acholi subregion, urged donors to revamp the way they distributed aid rather than cut it. "They should focus on using the district local government structures and development agencies that directly interface with the people whom the funds are meant for," he said.
"We are very, very worried," said Luke Nyeko, chairman of Kitgum District, one of the 55 northern districts that had been benefiting from PRPD programming.
According to Nyeko, Kitgum stopped receiving government-managed PRPD funds in September with no explanation, and a number of programmes, including a scholarship scheme for vulnerable youth, were stopped in their tracks.
"Our people are highly traumatized because of the war, and these students who should have been moved up through education are going to suffer," Nyeko said. "There is nothing yet we have been told about that money... Our hands are tied."
Nyeko added that roads, health centres, boreholes, and staff houses in schools have now been "completely interrupted". He called on donors to follow the example of the US government, which supports projects directly through USAID, as opposed to through Uganda's budget.
Budget versus project support
Direct budget support has been a contentious issue among donors for years, though the percentage of external support to Uganda's annual expenditure has decreased over the years. Donor funds account for about 25 percent of Uganda's budget for the 2012-2013 financial year, compared to 42 percent in 2006-2007.
Norway, a former JBSF partner whose funds were directly involved in the OPM scandal, stopped funding Uganda's budget directly in the 2010-2011 financial year, citing a lack of progress against corruption. Though it continues to provide loans to Ugandan projects aligned to national development priorities, last month Norway suspended about $10 million in aid intended primarily for roads and energy projects such as rural electrification and expanding the national power grid, according to its embassy in Kampala.
According to a March 2012 statement, JBSF partners had already planned to reduce direct budget support last year, after a joint assessment "highlighted poor budget credibility and discipline in 2011 and low releases to some key service delivery functions such as health, water and environment, and education".
Donors are increasingly tying aid to economic development and good governance - the same report that uncovered the abused PRPD funds was highlighted by donors as proof of effective aid, and the kind of investment they would continue to support.
"But there's a deep irony here, because donor-promoted institutions are maturing, and as a result donors are cutting aid," Izama said. "The reform processes that we are seeing today is actually a good precursor to the type of governance regime you need for a country that has got natural resources, and whose economy is coming of age."
[ This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations. ]
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'WITH ENTREPRENEURS WITH MORE EDUCATION FOR A FUTURE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY THERE WILL BE NEED OF MANY ENGINEERS, MANAGERS ,FROM TOP MANAGEMENT .TO MID MANAGEMENT .TO MNMANGERS OF WORKERS ; WHATEVER THE POSITION THERE WILL BE A GROUNDSWELL OF WORK FOR MILLIONS !!. "THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT TO PUT THESE THINGS IN ORDER. "IT IS TIME FOR UGANDA TO HAVE A MORE CREDIBLE TAX REVENUE SERVICE, ONE THAT CAN PROVIDE REVUNUE FOR ALL THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE. THE MORE PEOPLE EDUCATED AN WORKING THE MORE SMALL BUSINESES THERE ARE!!, THE MORE REVUNUE FOR THE GOVERNMENT '!!!. THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT CAN BE DONE IS THE RWANDAN REVUNUE CHALLENGE, WHERE DONATIONS FROM THE POPULATION ARE USED AS INVESTEMNT AND MAKING THE POPULATIONS THE PARTICIPATORY SHAREHOLDERS IN ALL FACETS OF GOVERNMENT". SHOULD UGANDA CRUMBLE IN LIU OF AID MONEY!!; IT WOULD TARNISH THE REPUTATION OF UGANDA ,AS A LEADING NATION IN AFRICA!!!! AD MAKE DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKE A JOKE?? . THIS WOULD BE INTERPRETED THAT THE WEST DOES NOT GIVE FROM THE HEART; NOR IN THE SENSE THAT THERE IS SOME SORT OF SENSITIVITY WHEN IT COMES TO AFRICA !!!, FOR ALL ITS MISDEEDS PEPRETRATED AGAINST AFRICANS!!!!!... "WE KNOW THAT LATTER TO BE UNTRUE; THEY DO NOT GIVE OUT OF CONSCEINCE OR EVEN FOR CHARITABLE REASONS BUT TO DOMINATE AND EXTEND THIER WHITE SUPREMACY!!!. "IF AFRICA DOES NOT LEARN TO STAND FIRM THEN THEY WILL NEVER EVER WALK!!!!!!!!. "THIS CULTURE OF AID IS THE CURSE' THAT HAS BEEN AFRICAS!!!!!!!!!!; NOT THE OIL OR ANY BLESSINGS THAT WE HAVE ".. IT IS THE WAY THEY INFLUINCE COERCE AFRICANS INTO CORRUPTION WITH THIS AID(S) ALL THE SAME BOTH FATAL KILLERS!!!. THERE IS A STORY I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU ; EVERYONE IS FAMILAIAR WITH 'THE STORY OF AMERICAN THANKSGIVING ??, ANY WAY WHEN THE FIRST PILGRIMS ARRIVED IN NEW ENGALND , THEY WERE WORTHLESS DID NOT KNOW HOW TO TILL THE LAND NOR WERE THEY CAPABLE OF SURVING THE VERY FIRST WINTER". THE NATIVES BEING HUMANE MONOTHEIST ,PEOPLE OF THIS LAND CAME TO THIER RESCUE"!! THEY WERE SAVED, TAUGHT HOW TO SURVIVE!!FROM THAT DAY HENCE IT WAS REMEBERED AS THANKSGIVING'; "THE STORY DOES NOT END THERE, THE PILGRIMS SURVIVED ndWHAT THEY DID NEXT IS CLASSIC!!. IN ORDER TO SHOW THE NATIVES APPRECIATION THEY DECIDED TO GIVE THEM WARM BLANKEST FOR THIS ANOTHER COLD WINTER, SO WITH GREAT APPRECIATION THE NATIVES DECIDED TO USE THESE BLANKETS !!!!!??? ALL AT THIER DEMISE!!! THE BLANKETS WERE LOADED UP WITH SMALLPOX!!!!????? YES SMALLPOX!!.. NEVER EXPERIENCING ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE THEY HAD NO REMEDIES FOR THESE NASTY DISEASES.. YES MY PEOPLE THEY WERE WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. SO FOR SAVING THIER LIVES THEY WERE RECIPROCATED WITH MASS MURDER GENOCIDE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO CALL IT BUT THE POINT OF THE STRY IS "THAT NOT ALL MONEY IS GOOD MONEY!!!!!!!. THEY WHOM ARE GIVING YOU THIS AID IF THEY NEED FOR YOU TO GO AGINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE JUST TO GET THIS POPISON MONEY THEN YOU DO NOT NEED IT. I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER HOW THEY REPAY THIER FRESINDS??? WHEN THE PEOPLE BECAME TRULY INFECTED THEY BROUGHT MORE BLANKETS OT MAKE SURE THAT THEY ALL DIED SO THEY COULD BE THE INHERROTERS OF THE LANDS;; TODAY WHITE EUROPEANMS HAVE CLAIMED NORTH AMERICA AS THEIR LAND . I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A VERY POIGNANTREMINDER OF HISTORY AS FOR YOU NOT TAKE THE BATE. THERE IS NO OVERWHELMING NEED FOR IAD WITH A BRIGHT AND DEVELOPING INDEPENDENT NATION THAT WANTS TO DESIGN ITS ONW DESTINY"". EVERYTHING FREE CAN NEVER EVER BE GOOD; AS WE CAN SEE 'IN ORDER TO GET FREE MONEY, WE MUST START PLAYING WITH FECES, MAN MUST START GOING UP IN MAN BOTTOM HOLE????? IF THSI IS HOW THEY THINK OF YOU THEY DO NOT HAVE MUCH RESPECT FOR YOU AS HUMAN BEINGS".. EVEN WHEN THEY KNOW THAT IS TOTALLY CONTRARY TO AFRICAN WAYSAND CULTURE. AFRICAN S NWERE THE ONES WITH THE MOST WIVES THEY INVENTED POLLYGAMY THIS WAS THEIR CULTURE !!! WHITES KNOW THIS BUT THEY WANT TO SEE HOW WELL THY HAVE ASSIMILATED YOU ???? THEY ALSO WANT TO SE IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE CORRUPTED WITH THE OIL, IF YOU SUBMIT TO THIS INIQUITY THE OIL IS THIERS AND THEY KNOW THIS. THEY WILL KNOW YOU ARE WEAK AND THAT YOUR ONLY INETERST IS FREE BRIBE MONEY SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WITH CORRUPTION. I GUARNTEEE THAT AS SOON AS YOU ACCEPT THSI THIER WILL THEY FORGET ABOUT WAHT THEY SAY YOU EMBEZZLED WILL REAFFIRM THIER DESIRE TO FUND CERTAIN PROGRAMS THEN THEY WILL PLAY YOU OUT OF THE OIL AND YOUR PLIGHT WILL BE WORST THAN NIGERIAS. AN EDUCATED NATION MAKES A VERY WEALTHY NATION. IT WAS AFRICANS THAT ALLOWED FOR GADAFFI TO BE MURDERED WHY I SAY THIS ?? "GADAFFI HAD A GOOD MODEL' ; HIS NATION WAS INDEPENDENT IT WAS SELF SUFFICIENT !!!, 'HE NEVER BBORROWED AND HE NEVER BEGGED"!!!.HE HAD A SOCIAL PROGRAM THAT IS ENVIABLE FREE EDUCATION TO UNIVERSITY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!. THIS IS THE MODEL THAT AFRICA NEEDS " THE GADAFFI PLAN". ALL , EVEREY SINGLE AFRICAN NATION OUT OF RESPECT FOR GADAFFI SHOULD ADAPT THIS PLAN BY SETTING TIME TABLES TO ACHIEVE MID INCOME STATUS BEFORE TEN YEARS!!!!!.WHEN ONE IS INDEPENDENT!! THEN NO ONE CAN DICTATE TO INDEPENDENCE"".. WHEN ONE IS WEAK WORTHLESS CORRUPT AND HAS NO FUTURE THEY WILL ALWAYS BE CANNON FODDER USED AND ABUSED POISONED EVEN!!!!! LOOK AT SISTER JOYCE BANDA SHE THOUGHT THAT SHE COULD JUST JUMP INTO OFFICE AND REBUKE THE LAWS OF HOMOSEXUALITY TO PLEASE THE WEST FOR MONEY???? NOT OS AFTER MAKING THIS BROAD STATEMENT SHE HAD TO RETRACT HER STATEMENT SAYING THAT THE PEOPLE OF THER NATION WAS NOT READY FOR THOSE TYPES OF LAWS !!, THOUGH SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN WILLING TO GO ALONG WITH THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE NATION ODES NOT EMBRACE THAT BEHAVIOUIR SO THERRE WILL HAVE TO BE TIME BEFORE THEY CAN SEE THIS LIFE STYLE!!.. WHAT AMAZES ME IS THAT HISTORY IS KNOWN QUITE MORE SO THAN BEFORE AND THEY DONT KNOW THAT AFRICA IS THE OLDEEST CONTINENT AND THE OLDEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET, THEY SHOUDL KNOW THAT WHEN THEY CAME TO AFRICA
TODAY IS WHEN AFRICA TAKES INDEPENDENCE TO MEAN JUST THAT!!!... WHEN THERE IS DEPENDABILITY THERE IS NO INDEPENDENCE; WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS THE RESIDUAL AFFECTS OF THE DONR PLAGUE. WESTERN NATIONS IN ORDER TOP HOLD AFRICANS UNDER THIER THUMB DESIGNED MEANS AND WAYS TO KEE THE NATIONS HUNGRY FOR AID LENDING MONEY AT EXTORNIONARY RATES USING THIER BRAINS TO KEEP AFRICANS UNDEREDU7CATED IN ORDER FOR THE POPEL TO BECOME DEPENDENT ON AID. FREE MINUTE PIECES OF MONEY JUSTO ENABLE ONE TO SURVIVE!!!. WELL THE CHEAP MONEY IS GOING LTE IT GO>>> MY GRAND FATHER USE TO SAY""" NOT ALL MONEY IS GOOD MONEY!! OS ITS IT NOT ALL MONEY YOU WANT"... THERE IS CHINESE AID PACKAGE IN AFRICA FOR NATIONS WHOM ARE TRULY ON THE RISE AND FOR COLLECTIVE AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE. WITH ENTREUPRNEURS WITH MOR EDUCATION FOR A FUTURE OIL AND GAS MARKET THERE WILL BE NEED OF MANY ENGINEERS MANAGERS FROM TOP MANAGEMENT TO MID MANAGEMENT TO MNMANGERS OF WORKERS ; WHATEVER THE PAOSITION THERE WILL BE A GROUNDSWELL FO WORK FOR MILLIONS !!. THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT TO PUT THESE THINGS IN ORDER. IT IS TIME FOR UGANDA TO HAVE A MORE CREDIBLE TAX REVENUE SERVICE THAT CAN PROVIDE OFR ALL THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE THE MORE PEOPLE EDUCATED AN WORKING THE MORE SMALL BUSINESES THERE ARE!!, THE MORE REVUNUE FOR THE GOVERNMENT '!!!. THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT CAN BE DONE IS THE RWANDAN REVUNUE CHALLENGE WHERE DONATIONS FROM THE PEOPLE ARE USED AS INVESTEMNT AND MAKING THE POPULATIONS THE SHAREHOLDERS IN ALL FACETS OF GOVERNMENT. SHOULD UGANDA CRUMBLE IN LIU OF AID MONEY!!; IT WOULD TARNISH THE RPUTATION OF UGANDA AS A LEADING NATION IN AFRICA AD MAKE DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKE A JOKE . THIS WOULD BE INTERPRETED THAT THE WST DOES NOT GIVE FROM THE HEART NOR IN THE SENESE THAT THERE IS SOEM SORT OF SENSITIVITY WHEN IT COMES TO AFRICA FOR ITS MISDEEDS PEPRETARTED AGAINST AFRICANS!!!!!... WE KNOW THAT LATTER TO BE UNTREU THEY DO NOT GIVE FOR CONSCINCE OR EVEN FOR CHARITABLE REASONS BUT TO DOMINATE AND EXTEND THIER WHITE SUPREMACY!!!. IF AFRICA DOES NOT LEARN TO STAND FIRM THEN THEY WILL NEVER EVER WALK!!!!!!!!. THIS CULTURE OF AID IS THE CURSE THAT HAS BEEN AFRICAS NOT THE OPIL OR THE WAY THRY COERCE AFRICANS INTO CORRUPTION BUT THIS AID(S) ALL THE SMAE BOTH FATAL KILLERS!!!. THERE IS A STORY I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU ; EVERYONE IS FAMILAIAR WITH THE STORY OF AMERICAN THANKSGIVING ??, ANY WAY WHEN TH FIRST SETTLERS ARRIVED IN NEW ENGALND , THEY WERE WORTHLESS DID NOT KNOW HOW TO TILL THE LAND NOR WEE THEY CAPABLE FO SURVING THE WINTER. THE NATIVES OF THIS LAND CAME TO THIER RESCUE THEY RBOUGHT THEM TURKEYS AND DIFFERNT . SO THIS DAY WAS REMEBERED AS THANKSGIVING'; THE STORY DOES NOT END THERE, THE PILGRIMS SURVIVED SO WHAT THEY DID NEXT IS CLASSIC!!. IN ORDER TO SHOW THE NATIVES APPRECIATION THEY DECIDED TO GIVE THEM WARM BLANKEST FOR THIS ANOTHER COLD WINTER, SO WITH GREAT APPRECIATION THE NATIVES DECIDED TO USE THESE BLANKETS !!!!!??? ALL AT THIER DEMISE!!! THE BLANKETS WERE LOADED UP WITH SMALLPOX!!!!????? YES SMALLPOX!!.. NEVER EXPERIENCING ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE THEY HAD NO REMEDIES FOR THESE NASTY DISEASES.. YES MY PEOPLE THEY WERE WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. SO FOR SAVING THIER LIVES THEY WERE RECIPROCATED WITH MASS MURDER GENOCIDE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO CALL IT BUT THE POINT OF THE STRY IS "THAT NOT ALL MONEY IS GOOD MONEY!!!!!!!. THEY WHOM ARE GIVING YOU THIS AID IF THEY NEED FOR YOU TO GO AGINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE JUST TO GET THIS POPISON MONEY THEN YOU DO NOT NEED IT. I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER HOW THEY REPAY THIER FRESINDS??? WHEN THE PEOPLE BECAME TRULY INFECTED THEY BROUGHT MORE BLANKETS OT MAKE SURE THAT THEY ALL DIED SO THEY COULD BE THE INHERROTERS OF THE LANDS;; TODAY WHITE EUROPEANMS HAVE CLAIMED NORTH AMERICA AS THEIR LAND . I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A VERY POIGNANTREMINDER OF HISTORY AS FOR YOU NOT TAKE THE BATE. THERE IS NO OVERWHELMING NEED FOR IAD WITH A BRIGHT AND DEVELOPING INDEPENDENT NATION THAT WANTS TO DESIGN ITS ONW DESTINY"". EVERYTHING FREE CAN NEVER EVER BE GOOD; AS WE CAN SEE 'IN ORDER TO GET FREE MONEY, WE MUST START PLAYING WITH FECES, MAN MUST START GOING UP IN MAN BOTTOM HOLE????? IF THSI IS HOW THEY THINK OF YOU THEY DO NOT HAVE MUCH RESPECT FOR YOU AS HUMAN BEINGS".. EVEN WHEN THEY KNOW THAT IS TOTALLY CONTRARY TO AFRICAN WAYSAND CULTURE. AFRICAN S NWERE THE ONES WITH THE MOST WIVES THEY INVENTED POLLYGAMY THIS WAS THEIR CULTURE !!! WHITES KNOW THIS BUT THEY WANT TO SEE HOW WELL THY HAVE ASSIMILATED YOU ???? THEY ALSO WANT TO SE IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE CORRUPTED WITH THE OIL, IF YOU SUBMIT TO THIS INIQUITY THE OIL IS THIERS AND THEY KNOW THIS. THEY WILL KNOW YOU ARE WEAK AND THAT YOUR ONLY INETERST IS FREE BRIBE MONEY SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WITH CORRUPTION. I GUARNTEEE THAT AS SOON AS YOU ACCEPT THSI THIER WILL THEY FORGET ABOUT WAHT THEY SAY YOU EMBEZZLED WILL REAFFIRM THIER DESIRE TO FUND CERTAIN PROGRAMS THEN THEY WILL PLAY YOU OUT OF THE OIL AND YOUR PLIGHT WILL BE WORST THAN NIGERIAS. AN EDUCATED NATION MAKES A VERY WEALTHY NATION. IT WAS AFRICANS THAT ALLOWED FOR GADAFFI TO BE MURDERED WHY I SAY THIS ?? "GADAFFI HAD A GOOD MODEL' ; HIS NATION WAS INDEPENDENT IT WAS SELF SUFFICIENT !!!, 'HE NEVER BBORROWED AND HE NEVER BEGGED"!!!.HE HAD A SOCIAL PROGRAM THAT IS ENVIABLE FREE EDUCATION TO UNIVERSITY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!. THIS IS THE MODEL THAT AFRICA NEEDS " THE GADAFFI PLAN". ALL , EVEREY SINGLE AFRICAN NATION OUT OF RESPECT FOR GADAFFI SHOULD ADAPT THIS PLAN BY SETTING TIME TABLES TO ACHIEVE MID INCOME STATUS BEFORE TEN YEARS!!!!!.WHEN ONE IS INDEPENDENT!! THEN NO ONE CAN DICTATE TO INDEPENDENCE"".. WHEN ONE IS WEAK WORTHLESS CORRUPT AND HAS NO FUTURE THEY WILL ALWAYS BE CANNON FODDER USED AND ABUSED POISONED EVEN!!!!! LOOK AT SISTER JOYCE BANDA SHE THOUGHT THAT SHE COULD JUST JUMP INTO OFFICE AND REBUKE THE LAWS OF HOMOSEXUALITY TO PLEASE THE WEST FOR MONEY???? NOT OS AFTER MAKING THIS BROAD STATEMENT SHE HAD TO RETRACT HER STATEMENT SAYING THAT THE PEOPLE OF THER NATION WAS NOT READY FOR THOSE TYPES OF LAWS !!, THOUGH SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN WILLING TO GO ALONG WITH THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE NATION ODES NOT EMBRACE THAT BEHAVIOUIR SO THERRE WILL HAVE TO BE TIME BEFORE THEY CAN SEE THIS LIFE STYLE!!.. WHAT AMAZES ME IS THAT HISTORY IS KNOWN QUITE MORE SO THAN BEFORE AND THEY DONT KNOW THAT AFRICA IS THE OLDEEST CONTINENT AND THE OLDEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET, THEY SHOUDL KNOW THAT WHEN THEY CAME TO AFRICA
TODAY IS WHEN AFRICA TAKES INDEPENDENCE TO MEAN JUST THAT!!!... WHEN THERE IS DEPENDABILITY THERE IS NO INDEPENDENCE; WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS THE RESIDUAL AFFECTS OF THE DONOR PLAGUE!!!. WESTERN NATIONS IN ORDER TO HOLD AFRICANS UNDER THIER THUMBS DESIGNED MEANS AND WAYS TO KEEP THE NATIONS HUNGRY FOR AID', LENDING MONEY AT EXTORNIONARY RATES ,USING THIER BRAINS TO KEEP AFRICANS UNDEREDU7CATED IN ORDER FOR THE PEOPLE TO BECOME DEPENDENT ON AID. "FREE MINUTE PIECES OF MONEY' JUST TO ENABLE ONE TO SURVIVE!!!. WELL, THE CHEAP MONEY IS GOING LET IT GO>>> "MY GRAND FATHER USE TO SAY""" NOT ALL MONEY IS GOOD MONEY!! SO ITS IT NOT ALL MONEY YOU MUST ACCEPT"... "THERE IS CHINESE AID PACKAGE IN AFRICA FOR NATIONS WHOM ARE TRULY ON THE RISE AND' ARE FOR COLLECTIVE AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE". 'WITH ENTREPRENEURS WITH MORE EDUCATION FOR A FUTURE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY THERE WILL BE NEED OF MANY ENGINEERS, MANAGERS ,FROM TOP MANAGEMENT .TO MID MANAGEMENT .TO MNMANGERS OF WORKERS ; WHATEVER THE POSITION THERE WILL BE A GROUNDSWELL OF WORK FOR MILLIONS !!. "THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT TO PUT THESE THINGS IN ORDER. "IT IS TIME FOR UGANDA TO HAVE A MORE CREDIBLE TAX REVENUE SERVICE, ONE THAT CAN PROVIDE REVUNUE FOR ALL THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE. THE MORE PEOPLE EDUCATED AN WORKING THE MORE SMALL BUSINESES THERE ARE!!, THE MORE REVUNUE FOR THE GOVERNMENT '!!!. THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT CAN BE DONE IS THE RWANDAN REVUNUE CHALLENGE, WHERE DONATIONS FROM THE POPULATION ARE USED AS INVESTEMNT AND MAKING THE POPULATIONS THE PARTICIPATORY SHAREHOLDERS IN ALL FACETS OF GOVERNMENT". SHOULD UGANDA CRUMBLE IN LIU OF AID MONEY!!; IT WOULD TARNISH THE REPUTATION OF UGANDA ,AS A LEADING NATION IN AFRICA!!!! AD MAKE DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKE A JOKE?? . THIS WOULD BE INTERPRETED THAT THE WEST DOES NOT GIVE FROM THE HEART; NOR IN THE SENSE THAT THERE IS SOME SORT OF SENSITIVITY WHEN IT COMES TO AFRICA !!!, FOR ALL ITS MISDEEDS PEPRETRATED AGAINST AFRICANS!!!!!... "WE KNOW THAT LATTER TO BE UNTRUE; THEY DO NOT GIVE OUT OF CONSCEINCE OR EVEN FOR CHARITABLE REASONS BUT TO DOMINATE AND EXTEND THIER WHITE SUPREMACY!!!. "IF AFRICA DOES NOT LEARN TO STAND FIRM THEN THEY WILL NEVER EVER WALK!!!!!!!!. "THIS CULTURE OF AID IS THE CURSE' THAT HAS BEEN AFRICAS!!!!!!!!!!; NOT THE OIL OR ANY BLESSINGS THAT WE HAVE ".. IT IS THE WAY THEY INFLUINCE COERCE AFRICANS INTO CORRUPTION WITH THIS AID(S) ALL THE SAME BOTH FATAL KILLERS!!!. THERE IS A STORY I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU ; EVERYONE IS FAMILAIAR WITH 'THE STORY OF AMERICAN THANKSGIVING ??, ANY WAY WHEN THE FIRST PILGRIMS ARRIVED IN NEW ENGALND , THEY WERE WORTHLESS DID NOT KNOW HOW TO TILL THE LAND NOR WERE THEY CAPABLE OF SURVING THE VERY FIRST WINTER". THE NATIVES BEING HUMANE MONOTHEIST ,PEOPLE OF THIS LAND CAME TO THIER RESCUE"!! THEY WERE SAVED, TAUGHT HOW TO SURVIVE!!FROM THAT DAY HENCE IT WAS REMEBERED AS THANKSGIVING'; "THE STORY DOES NOT END THERE, THE PILGRIMS SURVIVED ndWHAT THEY DID NEXT IS CLASSIC!!. IN ORDER TO SHOW THE NATIVES APPRECIATION THEY DECIDED TO GIVE THEM WARM BLANKETS, FOR THIS ANOTHER COLD WINTER. SO WITH GREAT APPRECIATION THE NATIVES DECIDED TO USE THESE BLANKETS !!!!!??? ALL AT THIER DEMISE!!! THE BLANKETS WERE LOADED UP WITH SMALLPOX!!!!????? YES SMALLPOX!!.. NEVER EXPERIENCING ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE ,THEY HAD NO REMEDIES FOR THESE NASTY DISEASES.." YES MY PEOPLE THEY WERE WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH". "SO ! FOR SAVING THIER LIVES, THEY WERE RECIPROCATED WITH MASS MURDER,GENOCIDE, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO CALL IT!!! BUT THE POINT OF THE STORY IS "THAT NOT ALL MONEY IS GOOD MONEY!!!!!!!. THEY WHOM ARE GIVING YOU THIS AID IF THEY NEED FOR YOU TO GO AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE JUST TO GET THIS POISON MONEY THEN YOU DO NOT NEED IT". I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER HOW THEY REPAY THIER FRESINDS??? WHEN THE PEOPLE BECAME TRULY INFECTED THEY BROUGHT MORE BLANKETS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ALL DIED!!; SO THEY COULD BE THE INHERROTERS OF THE LANDS;; TODAY WHITE EUROPEANS HAVE CLAIMED NORTH AMERICA AS THEIR LAND" . I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A VERY POIGNANT REMINDER OF HISTORY AS FOR YOU NOT TO TAKE THE BATE. THERE IS NO OVERWHELMING NEED FOR AID WITH A BRIGHT AND DEVELOPING INDEPENDENT NATION THAT WANTS TO DESIGN ITS OWN DESTINY"". EVERYTHING FREE CAN NEVER EVER BE GOOD; AS WE CAN SEE 'IN ORDER TO GET FREE MONEY, WE MUST START PLAYING WITH FECES, MAN MUST START GOING UP IN MAN BOTTOM HOLE????? IF THIS IS HOW THEY THINK OF YOU ?? THEY DO NOT HAVE MUCH RESPECT FOR YOU AS HUMAN BEINGS".. EVEN WHEN THEY KNOW THAT IS TOTALLY CONTRARY TO AFRICAN WAYS AND CULTURE. AFRICAN S WERE THE ONES WITH THE MOST WIVES THEY INVENTED POLLYGAMY THIS WAS THEIR CULTURE !!! WHITES KNOW THIS BUT THEY WANT TO SEE HOW WELL THEY HAVE ASSIMILATED AND FOOLED YOU ???? THEY ALSO WANT TO SE IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE CORRUPTED WITH THE OIL?, "IF YOU SUBMIT TO THIS INIQUITY THE OIL IS THIERS AND THEY KNOW THIS". THEY WILL KNOW YOU ARE WEAK AND THAT YOUR ONLY INTEREST IS FREE BRIBE MONEY', SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE WITH CORRUPTION. I GUARNTEEE THAT AS SOON AS YOU ACCEPT THIS THIER WILL!!!!!. THEY FORGET ABOUT WAHT THEY SAY YOU EMBEZZLED;; THEY WILL REAFFIRM THIER DESIRE TO FUND CERTAIN PROGRAMS, THEN THEY WILL PLAY YOU OUT OF THE OIL AND YOUR PLIGHT WILL BE WORST THAN NIGERIAS". "AN EDUCATED NATION MAKES A VERY WEALTHY NATION". IT WAS AFRICANS THAT ALLOWED FOR GADAFFI TO BE MURDERED WHY I SAY THIS ?? "GADAFFI HAD A GOOD MODEL' ; HIS NATION WAS INDEPENDENT IT WAS SELF SUFFICIENT !!!, 'HE NEVER BBORROWED AND HE NEVER BEGGED"!!!.HE HAD A SOCIAL PROGRAM THAT IS ENVIABLE FREE EDUCATION TO UNIVERSITY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!. THIS IS THE MODEL THAT AFRICA NEEDS " THE GADAFFI PLAN". ALL , EVEREY SINGLE AFRICAN NATION OUT OF RESPECT FOR GADAFFI SHOULD ADAPT THIS PLAN BY SETTING TIME TABLES TO ACHIEVE MID INCOME STATUS BEFORE TEN YEARS!!!!!.WHEN ONE IS INDEPENDENT!! THEN NO ONE CAN DICTATE TO INDEPENDENCE"".. WHEN ONE IS WEAK WORTHLESS CORRUPT AND HAS NO FUTURE THEY WILL ALWAYS BE CANNON FODDER USED AND ABUSED POISONED EVEN!!!!! LOOK AT SISTER JOYCE BANDA SHE THOUGHT THAT SHE COULD JUST JUMP INTO OFFICE AND REPEAL THE LAWS OF HOMOSEXUALITY TO PLEASE THE WEST, FOR MONEY???? NOT SO!!! AFTER MAKING THIS BROAD STATEMENT, SHE HAD TO RETRACT HER STATEMENT SAYING THAT THE PEOPLE OF HER NATION WAS NOT READY FOR THOSE TYPES OF LAWS !!, THOUGH SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN WILLING TO GO ALONG WITH THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE NATION DOES NOT EMBRACE THAT BEHAVIOUIR SO THERE WILL HAVE TO BE TIME BEFORE THEY CAN SEE OR EVEN ACCEPT THIS LIFE STYLE!!.. WHAT AMAZES ME IS THAT HISTORY IS KNOWN QUITE MORE SO TODAY THAN BEFORE 'THEY PRETEND NOT TO KNOW THAT AFRICA IS THE OLDEEST CONTINENT AND THE OLDEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET!!!!!!!, THEY KNOW WE ARE THE EARLIEST OF CIVILIZERS BUT THEY DISRESPECT US KEEPING US WEAK KEEPING US IN BONDAGE MENTALY AND NOW SEXUALY THESE PEOPLE ARE DEVILS AND NOT TO BE TRUSTED LOOK AT AUSTRALIA LOOK AT AMERICA THE CONTINENT 99% OF THE NATIVES MASSACRED MURDERED WITH TRICK BLANKETS STARVATION TRICKS SLAVERY AND MASS GENOCIDE; AFRICA HAS BEEN AT THE BOOT OF ALL OF THIS THIS IS WHERE WE MUST PART COMPANY TODAY. THEY SHOW YOU EVERY TURN YOU MAKE THEY HAVE NO RESPECT OFR CULTURES OR PEOPLE!!!. THEY WANT TO COERCE BRIBE KEEP YOU IN ECONOMICAL SLAVERYEVEN WHITE MAIL YOU???? THERE IS NO INTEGRITY IN THIS THEY GIVE AID TO ISRAEL YET THEY CAN NOT TELL ISRAEL ONE THING NOT A WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " "AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS "" LEGISLATION BY AFRICANS FOR AFRICANS"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My fellow Africans should stop blaming western donors for undermining their pseudo-democracy and independence. Let us please call a spade a spade. Most African leaders are thoroughly corrupt and ethnocentric. Take the case of my own country Uganda. How many people from Northern Uganda are in charge of the so called rehabilitation of the North? Are members of the Uganda people's Congress Party, the Democratic Party of any other opposition party there? Is there any body called Mr 'O' there. There are only soldiers or people who claimed to have fought in the bush wars. I know they all fought for their stomachs and now they have all become 'FAT CATS' with baby faces.