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Came to life: on December 31, 2004 23:59 PM
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Followup On African AidWe've all seen the pictures of badly deformed children in Africa with flies targeting their faces while someone like Jeopardy's Alex Trebek or some other celebrity asks for your donation. Who of us could denounce such ventures?AEI (American Enterprise Institute) has some interesting facts that you may want to read before you sign on the dotted line. This caught my attention: In his testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in September 2004, Ghanaian Professor George Ayittey from the American University documented the following amounts of grand embezzlement among African leaders: General Sani Abacha of Nigeria: $20 billion President Félix Houphoüet–Boigny of Ivory Coast: $6 billion General Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria: $5 billion President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire: $4 billion President Mousa Traore of Mali: $2 billion President Henri Bedie of Ivory Coast: $300 million President Denis N'guesso of Congo: $200 million President Omar Bongo of Gabon: $80 million President Paul Biya of Cameroon: $70 million President Haile Mariam of Ethiopia: $30 million The above is in excess of thirty seven billion dollars! It's times like this that I question myself for having been an honest jail guard when I could have been a general or a president. Incidentally, Canada's Paul Martin is enroute to Scotland to attend a G8 Meeting where he'll be trying to convince America's George Bush to release a lot more of our tax dollars (Canadian and American) to these generals and presidents. I'm hoping old George bops the twit in a photo op. |
