I have been watching Aljazeera program 'people and power' today, it was so shocking.
They have done undercover investigation on how it is easy to open offshore a/c and launder money be it drugs, corrupt. The shocking news is of Zimbabwe where there is a diamond mine, the finance minister of Zimbabwe admit that they know even the quantity of the diamond exported but not even a single pen gets into the treasurer from the diamond revenue. Viongozi wa zimbabwe wanakula mgao juu kwa juu. nikaona hiyo level ya corruption ni nyingine kabisa.
Yaani na hapa Tanzania tusipowabana hawa jamaa saa hizi, watafikia level ya Zimbabwe ambapo hata mauzo ya madini yatakuwa yanaingizwa kwenye a/c zao huko nje. We need to step up our effort on tackling this injustice. This shouldn't be left to Zitto only, we need to find a way to involve the public at large to pressurize the government.
Africa receives a total of US$50b as a foreign aid and loses a total of US$ 150b to offshore a/c every year.
My question is why donor countries do not fight this theft? Are they also the beneficiaries? What is the rationale for the foreign aids? If they give us aids in the front pages of the news and then rob us more than what they gave. Is Africa Cursed continent? Where to start?