CIAA chief fires a fusillade at donors

Kathmandu, April 3-Donor agencies working here put their own inter-ests first, Chief of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority Surya Nath Upadhayay charged on sunday .
“They have been working here with their interests uppermost and they have been imposing conditions while providing grants,” Upadhayay said. He added that due to their vested interests they are not making their expenses transparent .

Upadhayay was speaking at an interaction on Role of Agencies Working for Good Governance and Need for Effective Coordination organised by the Research and Media Centre Against Corruption, Nepal, here on sunday. He also accused the donors of launching unnecessary training programmes for high-level government officials.

Upadhayay urged the government not to accept conditions while welcoming donors. “If we accept their conditions we would only be carrying out their instructions,” he added.

He also said that it is a bad idea to work on others’ money. “We have to work with our own money as the country is ours”.“Why the donors have been organising such training programmes, we do not have knowledge?,” he asked. Upadhayay also asked “since the officials are BA and MA degree holders why should they be sent abroad for training, and why are the donors organising training programmes for them”