The government has suspended all Irish Aid payments to Uganda after discovering that €4 million of taxpayer money was lodged to an unauthorised account.
The Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore has sent an audit team from Ireland to the capital Kampala to try and secure the return of the funds.
Ireland gives around €33 million each year towards aid projects in Uganda.
Around half of that is administered by the Ugandan government.
We are a Country that is in an IMF bailout with all that this implies.
Borrowing money to throw at a corrupt Govt who buy tanks and planes while their citizens starve is utter nonsense of the highest order,this needs to stop immediately.
There was a woman on the news this evening from some Charity who kept repeating that it was..
"regrettable and that controls need to be put in place to stop this happening again"
What planet are these people on,its no use talking about controls when the horse is four counties over.It should be patently obvious to a 4 year old that when you give this money to a corrupt leadership that it will go missing.
We cannot afford this,I have no problem restarting foreign aid when we are in a position to afford it but what we are doing is the equivalent of someone who is on the dole wondering why they haven't a proverbial pot and their kids are eating the cardboard of an empty cornflakes box when they are paying a €60 pm DD to some bogus charity.