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Letter to the Government of Foreign aid has some good intentions though 30% goes back to the aiding
party and then they take the drawing board and write policies and programs that
are detrimental to the lives of our people. We then end up being buried in
debts. We often fail to condemn international
and national injustices because we are silenced by a check. It is a good idea to have a transparent defense budget and it is also a
good idea to defend the sovereignty of our motherland. To give you unhindered access to what we have
in our arsenal because you have given us 2% of the entire foreign aid, is to
compromise our national security endangering the lives of our citizens. Once such information becomes public, our
enemies will have a clear view how to defeat us. Foreign aid has replaced the diplomatic voice. Donors force us to have peace talk with
thugs, those who have maimed us, those who have raped us, those who have enslaved
us, those who have slain hundreds of our babies, those who have slain our
parents, those who have slain our relatives.
Foreign aid makes them saints and criminalizes the government whose
primary objective is to protect the lives and the property of her
citizens. At the end of the day,
military aid is political and not developmental and neither humanitarian. Whether it is this government or other governments to come, we should not
put the defense of our motherland into the hands of foreign donors. For decades to come a transformation strategy must be done and if we
need to have a technologically advanced defense, the Ministry of Defense needs
to be self-sufficient and cease to claim the lion’s share of the national
budget. We must stop foreign nations to
write our defense policies. For starters, our military can operate some
business schemes that would supplement other sources. The MoD can invest
into: ·
Military TV/Radio ·
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Intensive Modern Farming ·
Construction Industry I would challenge our representatives in the house to draw a road map that
would ensure that our defense is not overly dependent on foreign aid. Edriss S Kironde --- |
