EU earmarks £26.8m for Nigeria but afraid it will be siphoned by corrupt officials

A report has warned that half the money the European Union spends on aid is wasted, stolen or held up by incompetence.
These include a £1.8million EU scheme for a solar panel installation that is not working, as well as £26.8million earmarked to combat corruption in Nigeria, which cannot be handed over because of fears it will be siphoned off by corrupt Nigerian officials, MailOnline has reported.
The study by MEPs responsible for auditing EU spending found that £11.5billion of the £23billion doled out by Brussels each year fails to achieve its stated aims.
Ingeborg Graessle, chairman of the European Parliament’s committee on budget control, said the EU was “effectively throwing money down the toilet”.
The senior German MEP called for a wide-ranging review of the way Brussels spends aid money.
She told the Sunday Times: ‘Hundreds of thousands of people flee to Europe from countries where we are spending billions without any apparent effect.
“Year after year, funds are committed to obscure projects in what is effectively throwing money down the toilet. We need an urgent revision of spending, independent scrutiny and a clear procedure to actually measure what we are achieving.”
Miss Graessle said more than 900 aid projects worth £11.5billion are either significantly delayed or will fail to achieve their objectives.
She warned that her findings may be the ‘tip of the iceberg’, as some embassies are suspected of ‘sugar-coating’ reports to make the projects appear more successful.
The European Parliament’s committee on budget control is due to report this week on the EU’s £23billion aid budget.
Britain’s share of EU spending is 11.8 per cent, which equates to about £2.7billion. The report will say: “Every second euro spent does not achieve what it pays for.”
The study will raise fresh UK concerns about the size of the aid budget and its use. The report is expected to warn that vast sums are wasted because of poor management, corruption in recipient countries and theft.
Several of the failed projects highlighted are in countries that are now a source of mass migration to the EU, such as Morocco – where aid projects cost the EU £508million, Jordan – where the EU contributes £248million – and Lebanon, where £198million is spent.
The EU is the biggest development aid donor in the world, but has faced criticism over its failure to properly measure the outcomes of the vast expenditure.
In 2012 the then international development minister Alan Duncan said: “We share the people’s anger on this. We are forced to give money to the European Union. We ask them to focus aid on poverty but they don’t, and we have no choice in the matter.”
This week’s report is expected to highlight a number of failed projects bankrolled by the EU


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Bring it on, Nigeria is different now

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There is a change of government.

The yam eaters have been dislodged and their government toppled by a saner and more upright man called Mohammadu Buhari

Good Development. Don't give them Any Shishi

God help this country. See how our Rulers in the past has killed the integrity of this country while at some point some of them re looted Abacha's looted funds !!!

I don't think is wise to give aids to any country it rather encouraged corruption. African should rather look beyond aids and begin to forge for a prosperous African.

**grins** EU, keep the money, it wi be used to buy guns for northern sunni muslims to kill Eastern christian. Even corrupt people like tinubu, fashola, Amaechi and co are still lurking around, they only switched camps. That money will be better off flushed down the toilet than landing in the hands of a bloodletting tyrant surrounded by deceitful corrupt officials. Keep it. **grins**

Emmagenius:
Good Development. Don't give them Any Shishi

All this 2go kids on nairaland! Smh

They will purchase exotic BMW cars with it lol..

.......it seems as if today's generation is the most wicked and foolish the world ever produced, how you gave money to the gangof looters for share? the project is already failed and you continue on the same path, can you change for once? let every individual open his or her account with cellphone number and send money through it to individual and see if this world won't be peaceful!

Emmagenius:
Good Development. Don't give them Any Shishi

You guys are mixing opposition with unpatriotism....SMH.

Nigeria don commot for auto- siphon,the general is in-charge.