NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Britain's former envoy to Kenya blasted the World Bank for loaning $121 million to Kenya's administration, which is embroiled in another scandal.
Edward Clay wrote to the head of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, accusing the bank of "toadying to a thoroughly corrupt administration" and said that last week's loan made a mockery of efforts to stamp out high-level looting, the Times of London said Monday.
The loan, which included $25 million to fight graft, was made just days after a report leaked by Kenya's former anti-corruption czar, John Githongo, that implicated three Cabinet ministers in a fresh scandal.
"Surely even the bank's apolitical apparatchiks can see that what is now emerging is the most complete dissection of grand corruption yet to appear in Kenya," Edward wrote.
"And surely they can appreciate that funds disbursed at such a time cannot fail to appear as a mockery of the brave men and women who are taking risks to ensure that the scourge of corruption is banished from their country."
