Aid for whose benefit?

[Brian COOKSEY]

Dear Rev,
Thanks for the note.
I'll send you my IPTL paper.
My email is cooksey.brian@gmail.com
Brian

 

[Zungu Pule]

ZunguPule,

Are you in denial that we are not depending on Foreign Aid or just because this time is some Mzungu who has come up and declare this then we are shouting Patriotism?

Pull back all news feed from local news from Septemebr of 2009 todate and search for anything about Tanzania finances be it from Mkulo, Ndullu, Pinda or even Kikwete himself, you will see the trickle down effect of grants and loans and most of all the plea from our leadership for this foreign assistance.

On elections money, we have Makame and company declaring we need money and we have received several millions of dollors from Donor countries and especially EU for Uchaguzi.

Just last week there was news feed about Norwegian government that is hesitating to release funding of its donorship due to several reasons among them is the issue of corruption and accountability!

Yes the donor countries may bang the drum louder than what it is, however when the truth of matter is that our annual budget is depending severely on this assistance, then you have to admit that we have a problem of mismanagement of resources and we can not generate enough money to cover our own expenses.

Have you forgoten that just before the last Bunge session (current) there was talk for suplement budget?

I think we are on the same page. It's virtually impossible to use donor's money for unintended activities. If the money is intended to support electoral commission, the donor will verify that is what actually happened. Otherwise, they do take actions, like the Norwegian example you have cited. The thing is they don't give much. They generally support consumption rather than investment. And without investment, no growth!

I think the author has no issue with donor's support to our budget (which is peanut if we are to achieve the level of investment required to grow). He particularly has an issue with misuse of that support for personal and political purposes. The argument here is, for example, the money meant for HIV/AIDS project being used for political campaigns and the likes instead.

 

[tgeofrey]

I had said we do not need paper vote we don't need mps all we need is a better nation all citizen under better roof, his liter farm for food for life asured of free education. Everything to the thoe who mostly need. Election ias all about justfying other people ripping all we dont have by right as long as five years. Even uk cant do it right how about us??

 

[Josh Michael]

Ukisoma vizuri kitabu cha Dambisa Moyo ndio utajua vizuri sana juu ya mambo ya misaada na athali zake katika nchi kama za kwetu Tanzania hivyo ni hatari sana Taifa kupokea misaada bila ya kufanya uchumi uwe tegemezi pekee

 

[Zungu Pule]

Ukisoma vizuri kitabu cha Dambisa Moyo ndio utajua vizuri sana juu ya mambo ya misaada na athali zake katika nchi kama za kwetu Tanzania hivyo ni hatari sana Taifa kupokea misaada bila ya kufanya uchumi uwe tegemezi pekee

Kamuulize Dambisa Moyo, kwa nini Zimbabwe, her home country kama bado hajaikana, ni maskini? Is it because of foreign aid? Ni nani alilipa gharama za masomo yake Havard na Oxford? Why the Marshal plan did actually work? and not aid to Africa?

Again, this topic is about corrupt leaders in Tanzania using donor money for political and personal purposes. Let's not create our own topic here.

 

[Eric Cartman]

JK has shown his lack of leadership by not invoking his presidential powers to put an end to the internal bickerings that threaten to destroy the unity of the Tanzanian state and people.

My recommendation to the donors is that they make it understood to JK and his gvt that they can no longer justify throwing their tax payers money into a bottomless pit of corruption, incompetence and waste. Failure to take a principled stand would lead critics to conclude that aid has run its course and serves only the purposes of the political class and its business cronies.

These people donated in Liberia under Charles Taylor, they donated in Uganda under Amin and they're still donating in unstable democracies such as Congo and Uganda today.
The African Perspective:
The issue should not be them interferring with our spending in making sure the funds go to the right courses. For staters most funds that come to us end up going back in their shores through other transactions such as expertise advise or even shoddy deals that Lowassa and co are participating in.

We buy most neccessary machines from them in other Words they give us money to buy goods direct to them, along the way contributing to their economies heavily yet we have to pay the same money with ridiculous interests.

Unlike us, they plan in exploiting us and always scheming to go round the IMF rules in the name of ethical lending but the intention is obvious.


Personally i think the lending is vital in our countries, but rather than concentrating with donors help in supervising the funds. We Africans need to make the neccessary noises for change, change in our leadership styles not just the president, change in the way we operate in our Micro-economies borderly. Its time we looked and set a time frame when stop asking for the doners help.


And that would not be possible if corruption is at the level it is in Tanzania. Im not even thinking about senior servants level of embezzlement. But the social attitude towards it, and the way our government is loosing so much of its income because of the stupidity. Or be it poor services being delivered rather than the policies intended.

In short corruption is an enemy of our development and the cause; of many other problems including inflation. For Africans to get out of this circle that is the circle of Aid, corruption, debt: we need tough laws, accountability and encouraging home entrpreneurship we have so much to exploit at our doorsteps that others can only wish for.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Kamuulize Dambisa Moyo, kwa nini Zimbabwe, her home country kama bado hajaikana, ni maskini? Is it because of foreign aid? Ni nani alilipa gharama za masomo yake Havard na Oxford? Why the Marshal plan did actually work? and not aid to Africa?

Again, this topic is about corrupt leaders in Tanzania using donor money for political and personal purposes. Let's not create our own topic here.

Moyo ni Mzimbabwe au Mzambia?

 

[BongoTz]

This year, donors are promising to support the national budget with unprecedented amounts of cash. They continue to fund programmes and projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars that fuel corruption at all levels and add to our foreign debt. My fear is that donor aid to the government will fuel unprecedented levels of corruption as CCM factions continue to squabble over who runs the country now and in the future.

Totally agree with you, Cooksey! This will only make things worse. I mean, this whole aid thing is kinda irrelevant. Largely ineffective, often dangerous. The question is not whether we need the hundreds of millions of dollars that donors continue to pump into a broken system every single year (am talking about government-to-government aid here). The question is whether these donors really have the best interests of our nation/Africa at heart? I'm saying this 'cause these people/donors know for sure that our leaders are immoral, greedy, ignorant, and corrupt; yet they seem determine more than ever to continue supporting the rotten system!?!!!! Why?

 

[Zungu Pule]

Moyo ni Mzimbabwe au Mzambia?

Ni kati ya nchi hizo mbili kama bado hajaukana uraia. Jina lake [Moyo] linaashiria kana kwamba ana asili ya Zimbabwe. Wikipedia will confirm her country of origin.

 

[Mzee Mwanakijiji]

Mr. Cooksey.. thanks for finally joining us. I know you have written extensively on the question of aid and corruption especially in Tanzania and your research has been instrumental in helping some of us understand that the war on corruption can not just be fought by exposing corruption in our local media. Your work in the exposing corruption in the IPTL remains a classic example of investigative reporting.

You are probably still disappointed that after these so many years we are still stuck with the IPTL saga.

Once again welcome aboard.

 

[Fundi Mchundo]

Way foward is to look for leaders with "Brain" rather being "West toilet Papers"

We have Gold, Uranium and Gas in large quantities as well remember???

Bottom line: Wananchi wangapi wanajua Whites are for our resources in the name of Aid? JF wengine wanapenda white supremacy kama vile ndio dini na mungu wao? long way to go ndugu

White supremacy imengiaje hapa? Or what does White Supremacy have to do with Donors? Are you implying that Obama is a closet K.K.K member? You are the racist one here.

Amandla........

 

[Nyauba]

Aid motives is to fuell corruption in the govts and enables donors to govern the same countries easily as they want.

If those who call themselves Donors, DPs, could stop using their taxpayers money to support their agenda overseas, corruption level in Africa will slow down significantly.

 

[Fundi Mchundo]

Kamuulize Dambisa Moyo, kwa nini Zimbabwe, her home country kama bado hajaikana, ni maskini? Is it because of foreign aid? Ni nani alilipa gharama za masomo yake Havard na Oxford? Why the Marshal plan did actually work? and not aid to Africa?

Again, this topic is about corrupt leaders in Tanzania using donor money for political and personal purposes. Let's not create our own topic here.

Leaders we keep on re-electing kwa vishindo! And now we want to blame the wazungu for our woes? Give me a break.

Amandla.......

 

[MwanaHaki]

Yada! Yada! Yada! Same old story.... it's like new labels in the same wine bottle! Nothing ever changes... and the more things change, the more they stay the same!

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