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How Donor Agencies, MDAs Fleece Nigeria – Investigation by ceo4eva: 8:42am On Oct 26, 2013 |
Nigeria is not getting real value from funds donated by international organisations for most pro- development projects, an investigation by LEADERSHIP Weekend has revealed. There is a strong collaboration between the donor bodies and some ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of the federal government to make Nigeria get less value from the funds, it was gathered. Even the House of Representatives Committee on Donor Agencies and Civil Societies alluded to this finding when it questioned the shadowy manner donor agencies execute their development projects in Nigeria. The committee said that the failure of the donors to make public the amount of money they bring into the country for various projects and how it is spent points to the fact that the nation is after all being fleeced. It noted that bogus figures being dished out as financial aid to Nigeria have not reflected the development on ground. The chairman of the committee, Hon. Ini Akpan Udoka, told LEADERSHIP Weekend: “We have observed that what these donor agencies term development assistance to Nigeria is actually managed without proper accountability. No one knows what the actual expenditure on each of the projects they execute is. The practice whereby a bogus amount is quoted as financial aid for development projects in Nigeria without disclosing how the money is spent is misleading and unacceptable. The committee has resolved to find out what is going on and some of them we have spoken to have pledged to appear before the committee to give relevant explanations.” The National Planning Commission (NPC), in a list made available to LEADERSHIP Weekend, disclosed some of the development partners as the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), Agence Francaise de Developpment (AFD), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), German International Cooperation (GIZ), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, British Council, British High Commission, People’s Republic of China and High Commission of Malaysia. However, a World Health Organisation (WHO) Report entitled “WHO Country Strategy 2008-2013” indicated : “With a rising foreign reserve profile, Nigeria is not an Official Development Assistant (ODA) -dependent country. Indeed, ODA constitutes about 1per cent of gross national income. Nigeria receives on average about $2 per capita a year whereas the African average is about $28. However, in an effort to fulfil its commitment to the implementation of the Paris Declaration, the federal government introduced in May 2007 its policy on ODA.” http://leadership.ng/news/261013/how-donor-agencies-mdas-fleece-nigeria-investigation |
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