Tuesday, June 28, 2011
UK aid cash helped African dictator buy himself a $30m jet
This is one of those things that everyone seems to know is a waste of money, yet, governments keep wasting it anyway.
And by the way, don't forget, it's the taxpayers (our) money...
And by the way, don't forget, it's the taxpayers (our) money...
Ian Drury writes about this one in the U.K. Daily Mail:
"British aid money was used by an African dictator to buy a £30million jet, it emerged last night.
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni bought the top-of-the-range Gulfstream G550 private plane in the same year ministers gave his poverty- ravaged country £70million.
During the same period Uganda also received around £57million from the UK through the European Union."
