Somalis: Look for WFP and UNDP shadow henchmen in Istanbul!

Somalis: Look for  WFP and UNDP shadow henchmen in Istanbul!
By Girma Gizaw
April 14, 2010

The much hipped Somalia International Conference in Istanbul, Turkey on May 22nd 2010 is a much awaited event both locally and internationally. Indeed, I am one of the admirers of H.E. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, United Nations Somalia Envoy. He is an honest statesman. And wants Somalia succeed as a nation. No doubt. However, his enemy has been only one. His own institution. The United Nations organizations in Nairobi, UNDP and WFP who ransacked several billion dollars of Somalia’s international pledges. And his own inner clerical incompetent staff who undermine his credibility.

Recently, an organization has been examining  how the distribution of funds go for Somalia. 65% is spent as “in-house” expenses by United Nations and other  expatriates in Nairobi. About 40% is siphoned by parasitic Somali businesses that handle the corruption for the white folks as instrumental cover-ups . Only 5% barely gets to the mouth of a few hungry Somalis. Most goes for Al-Shabab and Hizbi-Islam, the power. To the much dismay of many Somali professionals, those the WFP and the UNDP is now scouting those same Somali corruption handlers to represent them in the Istanbul conference. These are illiterate Somali millionaires playing businessmen whose only knowledge is how best to steal international aid on behalf of the expatriates. Sharing the resources with these masters of deception, lords of poverty.Read More