Aid Cuts Threaten Public Services in Uganda

Donors have withheld approximately U.S.$260 million in aid following allegations of corruption in the prime minister's office. The cuts could impact public service delivery as early as next year.

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  • Uganda:  Aid Cuts Threaten Vital Public Services

    UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 17 December 2012

    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 ... read more »

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Uganda's ninth parliament: Finance Minister on donor cut and the budget.

  • Uganda:  World Bank to Assess Aid to Uganda

    The Independent, 15 November 2012

    With the continued amount of pressure from donors over the theft of over Shs20 billion from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) World Bank is considering slashing aid to the ... read more »

  • Uganda:  Religious Leaders Plead for Aid

    New Vision, 14 November 2012

    Religious leaders have asked donor countries not to withdraw aid from programmes affected by the recent corruption allegations in office of Prime's Minister (OPM) . read more »

  • Uganda:  Fraud Was Outright Theft, Minister Says

    New Vision, 14 November 2012

    Finance ministry permanent Chris Kassami has described the fraud in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) where billions of shillings were lost as outright theft. read more »

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  • ras sideeq
    Dec 18 2012, 10:40

    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 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

  • ras sideeq
    Dec 18 2012, 10:18

    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

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