U. S. Republicans in Congress including Pennsylvania, Scott Perry have accused USAID the United States Agency for International Development.
He claims that USAID has contributed to the financing of terrorist groups such as Boko Haram.
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On February 14, at the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency first meeting, Perry raised these accusations.
During the session, titled “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud,” Perry asserted that American taxpayer funds were being misused to support extremist groups.
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“Who gets some of that money? Does that name ring a bell to anybody in the room? Because your money, your money, $697 million annually, plus the shipments of cash funds in Madrasas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, ISIS Khorasan, terrorist training camps. That’s what it’s funding,” Perry said.
Together with these assertions, Perry blasted USAID for allegedly spending $136 million on the building of 120 schools in Pakistan.
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He contends that the existence of these schools is not supported by any concrete evidence.
“USAID spent $840 million in the last 20 years on Pakistan’s education-related programme. It includes $136 million to build 120 schools, of which there is zero evidence that any of them were built. Why would there be any evidence? The Inspector General can’t get in to see them,” Perry alleged.
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In addition, Perry voiced doubts about USAIDs initiatives to support women’s education in Afghanistan.
He implied that the Taliban’s restrictive policies towards women might make these initiatives unfeasible.
“If you think that the programme under Operation Enduring Sentinel entitled Women’s Scholarship Endowment, which receives $60 million annually, or the Young Women Lead, which gets about $5 million annually, is going to women who, by the way, if you read the Inspector General’s report, is telling you that the Taliban does not allow women to speak in public, yet somehow you’re believing, and the American people are supposed to believe, that this money is going for the betterment of the women in Afghanistan. It is not,” Perry stated.
