Canada concerned about embezzlement in aid project to Afghanistan | Wadsam:
A report on January 9, 2016 by Afghanistan’s Tolo News stated: “Earlier this month, the Minister of Education Assadullah Hanif Balkhi said that a recent study found that only six million Afghan children are in fact at school — contrary to the 11 million as previously stated by the former government.”
Providing USD 117.2mn since 2006, Canada is one of the main contributors to Afghanistan’s largest national education program–Education Quality Improvement Project (EQUIP).
“Canada is currently undertaking the necessary due diligence to ensure that in the event that Canada’s funds have been misappropriated, that such funds are recovered and that the guilty parties are held to account,” Ottawa Citizen quotes Jessica Seguin, a spokeswoman for Global Affairs Canada.
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