RE: African Development Bank (AfDB) pulling out9 Jan 2024 11:43
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One of the most revealing accounts of the incident was by .
@neby_G
. - “The arrest and attack was done by the security guards of the
@MoF_Ethiopia
after the 5.2 million dollars of Ethiopia’s yearly contribution to the bank was never deposited to the bank instead ended up in a bank account in Panama. When the Ethiopian director of .
@AfDB_Group
made it clear that the bank still hadn’t received the funds, he was arrested and physically attacked. When he decided to take all his foreign staff and leave the country out of safety concerns,
.
@AbiyAhmedAli
and the finance minister Ahmed Shide showed up at his house to convince to stay only for him to recognise the Finance minister’s security guards as the perpetrators of his arrest and attack. He refused to stay and has left the country. An “investigation” has been opened by the
@MoF_Ethiopia
to find the whereabouts of the 5.2 million dollars”, he wrote.
New information now suggests that Kamara and Bukenya committed the sin of being diligent and persistent. The two had been sending regular reminders to the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance to pay capital share contributions that Ethiopia had pledged in 2019.
However, the Ministry of Finance had been making the payments, except not to AfDB. It was making disbursements to an account listed in an email purported to be from the AfDB. It had wired $6 million (not $5.2 million) to that account. It turns out, according to these claims, that the account was somewhere in Mexico (not Panama). In any event, whether in Mexico or Panama, the money ended up in central/south America.
The beating of Kamara and Bukenya, therefore, wasn’t a result of an argument in the lift. It was premeditated. As the good folks of East Africa say, they had stepped on some big people’s plates, and needed to be discouraged from pursuing the matter further. It was, ultimately, a fool’s endeavour for the crooked Ethiopian officials, because the money wasn’t owed to Kamara and Bukenya’s private estates. Many fellows in Abidjan would see that it hadn’t landed on their account.
The latest accounts also allege that the incident didn’t happen at the Ministry of Finance. Kamara was reportedly waylaid at his gate in the dusk of Addis Ababa as he arrived home after work.
He was roughed up there, blindfolded, and thrown into a car full of armed men. They drove away with him, and after about 30 minutes, dumped him in a dungeon. Shortly after, Bukenya, who had been subjected to the same treatment, was also brought to the dungeon. Bukenya would likely have recognised it quickly as what Ugandan official torturers euphemistically and contradictorily call a “safe house” back home.
Bukenya was allegedly later taken to his home, where his captors carried out a thorough search, and confiscated laptops and phones. All the receipts, as it were.
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