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Another week, another scandal concerning the misuse of British aid in Afghanistan. This time, the self-serving bureaucrats at DFID are accused of handing more than £3.2 million in British tax payer funds to a dodgy, third party German aid agency contracted to re-settle failed Afghan asylum seekers returning from Britain. Even more appalling; DFID continued to throw money at the German outfit after evidence of fraud had been uncovered.
This is hardly news to anyone whose seen aid agencies operating in Afghanistan. During my time as a security advisor in the country, I saw DFID, USAID, the UN and US Military Provincial Reconstruction Teams show charts to the media detailing how much money was being spent on development projects and where. They would roll out a graph and the press would write stories about all the good work being done. Never once did I hear a journalist ask what all that spending had actually achieved.
Had they bothered, I’m sure a very different picture would have emerged. Continue reading ‘Want to Stop Foreign Aid Fraud? Scrap Foreign Aid.’
