Britain Suspends All Foreign Aid To Uganda Because of Graft and Corruption

I noted a few days ago here how a new push is on in Uganda to criminalize homosexuality and even impose the death sentence against gays in some circumstances.  At the time I posited that the drive for the anti-gay legislation was fueled by two things: (1) the efforts of American Christofascists to export hate and homophobia to African countries and (2) the desire on the part of of Ugandan politicians like Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga (pictured at right) to distract the uneducated populous from the ongoing rape and pillaging of the country by politicians like Kadaga.  So how corrupt are the government and politicians like Kadaga?  Extremely corrupt.  So corrupt, in fact, that the United Kingdom has ceased all aid to Uganda because of government and political corruption.  Box Turtle Bulletin has details on this move by the UK.  Here are highlights:

Not because Uganda may be poised to pass the Anti-Homosexuality Bill soon, but because corruption in Uganda is so rampant that the UK has no idea where its money has gone.

Britain has suspended all direct aid to the Ugandan government with immediate effect, the international development secretary, Justine Greening, announced on Friday.

Aid to the Ugandan prime minister’s office was frozen in August, following allegations of fraud, while an independent forensic audit was ordered. Greening has now suspended other bilateral aid, which is spent through Uganda‘s financial systems, known as direct financial aid.

…”Britain has frozen all UK aid spent through the Ugandan government. This is a result of initial evidence emerging from our ongoing forensic audit of the office of the prime minister, which indicates aid money may have been misused,” said DfID. “We are extremely concerned by these preliminary findings and we will assess the decision further when we have considered the full findings of the report. Unless the government of Uganda can show that UK taxpayers’ money is going towards helping the poorest people lift themselves out of poverty, this aid will remain frozen and we will expect repayment and administrative and criminal sanctions.”

Auditors discovered that joint foreign aid funding from Ireland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden to the tune of €12 million (£10 million, US$15 million) have mysteriously shown up in the private bank accounts of officials in prime minister Patrick Amama Mbabazi’s office. 

As I stated earlier this week, Uganda was better off as a British colony than it is under the greed driven and corrupt political class that is now acting as the train circus dogs of American Christianists as they seek to hide their own misdeeds.