I have always been aware that all the aid that we Africans receive from the west are not used for what they are intended, however after watching Living With Corruption this morning I realise the problem is much worse than I thought. Can you imagine a situation where the government officials in African countries who receive good wages are syphoning all the aid from charities and western governments to foreign accounts sometimes to the tune of $5billion? Even worse, things are so bad that to get aid, some people are having to bribe the government officials to get wut is theirs, children have to bribe their teachers in public schools to get their papers marked and so on and so on. The west have been in my opinion very generous in their donations and cancelling a huge proportion of our debts, however they don't really have a good understanding of the way the continent in general operates, hell I lived in Nigeria for the first 16 years of my life and I was unaware of the runnings.
2007-12-07
22:18:01
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