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07/14/2004:
"Britain Calls Kenya Government Corrupt and Greedy"
Reuters/NY TimesNAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya's government is arrogant, greedy and instead of fighting corruption ``eats like a glutton,'' Britain's ambassador said in a rare, blistering attack that led to him being summoned by the foreign minister Wednesday.
Edward Clay, British high commissioner (ambassador) in Nairobi, expressed outrage over what he termed ``new corruption'' since President Mwai Kibaki came to power in December 2002 pledging an all-out war on graft.
Corruption may account for $188 million and donors were unlikely to fund the 2004/2005 budget due to fresh graft, Clay said.
``Evidently the practitioners now in government have the arrogance, greed and perhaps a desperate sense of panic to lead them to eat like gluttons,'' he said in the speech delivered at a private British business lunch in Nairobi Tuesday.
``But they can hardly expect us not to care when their gluttony causes them to vomit all over our shoes.'' Clay's speech was published in full in the East Africa Standard Wednesday. full article
The white Western press carries stories like this without irony: imagine a British ambassador in Kenya accusing the black government of arrogance and greed. Ones might think to protest and say 'but he told the truth.' Irrelevant. Whites have given up the right to be a voice of moral indignation anywhere. And that is the stark and terrible truth.
