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Letter to the Editor, Irish Examiner, 21st July 2006
Sir
The revelation that the UK has made a further £20m cut in
aid to Uganda for its 2006-07 budget highlights the need for the
Irish Government to revise its aid policy to this corrupt country.
The British government made the cut because of concerns about governance,
public administration expenditure and budget plans.
The recent investigation into Uganda’s mismanagement of aid
money from the Global Fund on Aids, TB and Malaria unearthed evidence
of ‘serious mismanagement’ of funds.
In the last three years, the Irish Government has cut €12m
in aid to Uganda. Yet it will channel €32.5m to Uganda this
year alone. What more evidence does the Department of Foreign Affairs
need before it ceases to aid this notoriously corrupt regime?
Government inaction on this issue constitutes a flagrant abuse
of taxpayers’ money.
John O’Shea
GOAL
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