{"id":555,"date":"2012-11-06T10:04:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T10:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-welcomes-assurance-that-ugandan-aid-money-will-be-repaid\/"},"modified":"2012-11-06T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T10:04:38","slug":"crowe-welcomes-assurance-that-ugandan-aid-money-will-be-repaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-welcomes-assurance-that-ugandan-aid-money-will-be-repaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe welcomes assurance that Ugandan aid money will be repaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crowe welcomes assurance that Ugandan aid money will be repaid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in&#8217;s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n  Crowe TD, has welcomed assurances from the Ugandan government that  \u20ac4\u00a0million in Irish Aid money that was misappropriated will be paid back  in full.<\/p>\n<p>Two senior Ugandan government officials are on remand  facing\u00a0prosecution\u00a0over the misappropriation and 17 other government  officials are suspended without pay pending an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome the Ugandan government\u2019s commitment that it will refund  all the money in full and expect that to happen as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have taken swift action and have set-up a legal investigation  into how this development and life saving money was misappropriated. I  expect the full force of the law be used to against anyone found guilty  of misusing Irish Aid money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Irish Aid money was donated to improve education and health  systems in Uganda\u2019s poorest regions and the misuse of these funds is a  very serious offence, which puts the lives of impoverished Ugandans at  risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that a full and through investigation is completed soon and  that it will lead to a strengthening of anti-corruption systems within  Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accountability and transparency is the key to making aid effective,  and Irish Aid must continue to strive to be the most accountable donor  in the world, while also helping its partner countries to tackle  corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue to monitor the investigations into the case and I  expect the Irish Government to give more details into the case when  Irish Aid officials hand over a report of their investigations to the  T\u00e1naiste in the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe welcomes assurance that Ugandan aid money will be repaid Sinn F\u00e9in&#8217;s Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Diaspora, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has welcomed assurances from the Ugandan government that \u20ac4\u00a0million in Irish Aid money that was misappropriated will be paid back in full. Two senior Ugandan government officials are on remand facing\u00a0prosecution\u00a0over the misappropriation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}