Uganda president blames Western donors for country's woes

CNN ^ | May 2, 2005 | Reuters

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President Yoweri Museveni said in a statement that Uganda must become financially independent of donor nations that provide about half its budget but which he said are partly to blame for many if its problems.

Museveni has often hit out at donors for giving "unsolicited" advice, and says that by exporting their bountiful raw materials for processing in the West, African nations are the real donors.

"The raw materials that we have been donating to the Western countries must be turned into final products," he said in the statement, saying there were international markets for Ugandan coffee, cotton, cereals, beef, leather, milk and fish.

In the absence of foreign capital, "the government would encourage local capital including limited state intervention to kick-start certain sectors," the statement said.

Donors were also to blame for Uganda's chronic electricity shortages, Museveni said, which see large parts of the capital Kampala plunged into darkness every other night.

[motomosanto]

If you have never seen that picture, ask your dad: 4 white men carrying Idi Amin Dada sitting on a “Tipoi”. That beautiful picture was taken in the seventies, and there was a legend saying: this happened during colonial era, now it’s the turn of the British to carry Africans. Two decades later, three of the British have disappeared, there’s still only one called Tony Blair, now carrying Museveni (Number 7) on his shoulders. When Museveni went hunting in Eastern Congo, guess what? Tony was there. When Museveni and Kagame fought over mineral wealth in Kisangani, Eastern Congo, Tony Blair was there too !

Now Tony is tired of funding Museveni’s wars in the Congo, tired of using British taxpayers’ money to sustain a corrupt regime, and guess what? Museveni says “Africans are the real donors, those subsidizing British economy by shipping cheap raw material to Europe” . Conclusion: Mr. Tony Blair is as corrupt as Museveni !

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[Publius6961]

Silly threads to ignore fodder

[Phantom Lord]

"The raw materials that we have been donating to the Western countries must be turned into final products,"

Were the suppliers of these raw materials paid for them? If yes, they were not donated.

[2banana]

Just say "no!"

[motomosanto]

Is there any "Max" behind this? Reread: "No Max or ...ius please ! This is a conservative forum for conservative minds, those with the guts to say "no" to to corruption by Museveni, Blair & Co.

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[motomosanto]

That's what Museveni told his longtime friend Tony Blair. Motomosanto has just put it here in a conservative forum for you to judge how many corrupt people still hang out there ! Wait a minute: is it fine spending taxpayers'money to fund Museveni's corrupt regime (almost 50%). Only corrupt minds will say "Yes".

[Enchante]

Great, let those nasty western donors (mostly the UK, I believe) remove all that money that Museveni survives upon, and see how well his corrupt government does without 50% of its current budget. As for 'donating' raw materials to the west, his pitiful God-forsaken country can sell anything it has for whatever the market will bear. That's not donation, it's called economics, supply and demand, instead of the moronic socialistic world these leftists dwell in......

[GOP_1900AD]

If they don't want to be resource economies then they need to make it attractive for being sourced to do manufacturing and advanced services. It's as simple as that.

[monday]

"Great, let those nasty western donors (mostly the UK, I believe) remove all that money that Museveni survives upon, and see how well his corrupt government does without 50% of its current budget."

The real question is why western governments support his corrupt government. He is right that donors cause most of his countries problems because it is those donations that make it possible for him, and other corrupt leaders, to stay in power. What is unusual is that he as much as admits this. All foreign aid, loans, donations, etc. should stop now. All third world nations would be better off.

[Guillermo]

**Great, let those nasty western donors (mostly the UK, I believe) remove all that money that Museveni survives upon, and see how well his corrupt government does without 50% of its current budget.**

Well, haven't conservatives been saying welfare payments in fact hurt the poor, and create more problems than they solve, in the inner cities, for instance?

I don't see the difference here either...

Most countries would be better off without the billions in foreign aid they receive, including Israel.

Why? Because it creates dependency and allows them to continue in their current ways without instituting any reform.

[TigerPower]

of course its the wests fault....duh!

[Enchante]

"What is unusual is that he as much as admits this"


Welllll, I don't think he means what we mean by it!
He wants to use western 'imperialists' as scapegoats for all of his country's problems, but he doesn't want our money to go away, he just wants more of it under HIS control with no strings and no badgering from donors.....

[cyborg]

bump

[motomosanto]

Once Museveni called a lady named Clare (a key figure in Blair's cabinet and who became an opponent) "My sister". Those years, Blair would pump millions of dollars into Uganda and Rwanda encouraging them to send more troops into Eastern Congo to stole, kill and rape. Why did he do that? Of course, I said, there's no free lunch: everybody, including Blair's circle wanted a piece of the Congo's pie, in that "Gold Rush" in the Wild East Congo!
This what happens when you've got liberals at helms: they're mostly corrupt !

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