But $1 mil left over can get things movin in the right direction. Even though things dont appear to be pleasing, in my opinion he left some nuggets or clues about the future on these types of matters. Overseas aid money appears to be like this. Its like you look up into a stormy cloud right above and you see rain coming down but not a drop hits the ground.


How aid ends up buying fancy cars
By OSCAR KIMANUKA - oscar_kim2000@yahoo.co.uk

East and Southern Africa are currently experiencing serious threats of famine. In Southern Africa alone, close to 10 million people are affected.

Most of these countries depend on foreign aid. The problem has been the utopian schemes that failed to deliver lasting solutions to the people.

A good number of African countries have experimented with state marketing boards, state farms, price controls and big regional tariffs to encourage subsistence farmers to expand.

THIS IS happening despite significant inflows of aid. Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the United Nations chief advisor on the Millennium Development Goals believes that Africa needs more cash for an "African Green Revolution."

He further believes that the equivalent of some $50 in aid per villager holds the key to poverty eradication.

Professor Sach's Green Revolution would spend that money to improve agricultural infrastructure, soil nutrients, water quality and better agricultural infrastructure. In his calculation, out of every dollar of aid given to Africa, an estimated 16 per cent goes to consultants from donor countries, 26 per cent goes into emergency aid and relief operations and 14 per cent goes to debt servicing.

What he does not seem to account for is the 44 per cent that ends up lining the pockets of corrupt state bureaucrats and officials. Neither does he explain why $400 billion of aid to Africa over the past three decades has left Africans poorer.

Rwanda's president Paul Kagame recently said: "There are projects here worth $5 million and when I looked at their expenses, I found that $1 million was going into buying expensive cars at $70,000 each.

Another $1 million goes to buy office furniture, $1 million more for meetings and entertainment and yet another $1 million as salaries for technical experts, leaving only $1 million for the actual expenditure on poverty reducing activities. Is this the way to fight poverty?"
THE ONLY viable way to give food security to 200 million sub-Saharan Africans is to avail them the tools to engage in farming, not to rely on yet more aid. Oscar Kimanuka is a commentator on social and economic issues based in Kigali.

http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafric...n160120066.htm

Kagame is lying, he is using the oldest trick in the book:Blame the imaginery bureaucrats for misplacing funds(and this looks worse for Africans because people will then turn and blame us the people for the malaise created by the leaders themselves)

Truth is he is using the international aid money to pursuit his nazy like war mongering ways....creating havoc in the Great Lakes area by pretending to go after Hutu militia men....but instead of going after them, his army went on rampage stealing, looting and raping....Kagame and the that tribalist government cannot complain about a thing. They know where all the bloody money is going, he is just trying to distract the international community from the truth.