President Donald Trump Indicted the US foreign aid industry and bureaucracy while ordering the suspension and review of foreign assistance, making it curious why he could not terminate it altogether.
‘Our Foreign Aid Destabilizes, but is Our Investment’-Washington
The United States’ foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and, in many cases, are antithetical to American values. They serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries.
The Department of State followed suit on 26th January by publishing its suspension of all foreign assistance programs issued under the department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Interestingly, the department would explicitly describe American aid as ‘investment’ despite the flaws recognized by Trump; “The Secretary is proud to protect America’s investment with a deliberate and judicious review of how we spend foreign assistance dollars overseas.” Whatever the US calls aid, causes destabilization, aids opium production, but is still viewed as investment, which explains why recipients have only observed the drama surrounding its suspension. Meanwhile, hundreds protested in Washington with placards reading “USAID saves lives”. Certainly, USAID saves lives and careers in Washington while funding chaos, terrorism, corruption, and Western child molesters operating under bogus orphanages in Africa, which explains why it will not be missed.
US Aid as a Cloak for Neo-Colonialism
Proponents of the US aid have switched to scaremongering of how Trump’s suspension spells dooms to the ‘vulnerable’ in poor countries while hiding that these targeted communities have rarely benefited from America’s aid in the past. References to past US aid achievements begin with previous rosy plans such as the USAID’s Global Health Supply Program, but end in describing how these projects failed despite, gobbling up all allocated money and preventing targeted developing countries from initiating alternatives. Also, some supposed activists and whistleblowers from the West have been trying to whip Africans’ emotions by hyping how Trump’s aid suspension will affect Africans, but in vain. Their true worry may be the realization that Africa can survive without aid. Western aid only drives neocolonialism. The trickle of money flowing into Africa as aid conceals an avalanche of resources stolen from the continent by the West’s puppet politicians and invested in London, New York, or in tax havens. For instance, while Kenya receives about $471 million annually through the USAID, Kenya’s auditor general revealed that about $2 billion of Eurobond money attached to Kenya’s taxpayer was taken to J.P Morgan Chase in New York by the former government of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Still, the Western media hypes what Kenya supposedly receives as aid but not the huge wealth that the West steals through its black colonial agents. USAID’s $471 million should be insignificant to a country with an annual budget estimate of over $30 billion.
In Kenya, any shortfall arising from Trump’s suspension of USAID in areas such as countering human trafficking or providing food assistance should be funded by about $5.659 billion, which Kenyan politicians revealed is stolen under their watch every year. The aforementioned Kenyatta revealed during his tenure that his officials stole Ksh2 billion daily, a view confirmed by the current finance cabinet secretary for John Mbadi. Kenyatta and his father have secret links with the UK government, which enabled the first president to inherit land from colonial settlers. The family also hides investments in London and Panama, among others, with sums exceeding their cumulative salaries by multiples of a thousand hidden abroad.
Meanwhile, Mbadi revealed that he went through the Public Finance Management Module offered by the World Bank and IMF, which have a reputation for working with the CIA to control countries such as Thailand, Ghana, and Argentina in the 1960s. Talking of Thailand and the larger South East Asia, the USAID worked with the CIA to conduct proxy wars in Vietnam and Laos. Therefore, the spy agency’s fingerprints can be expected in the World Bank’s and USAID’s work, including in Kenya. Kenyan politicians such as Kenyatta and Mbadi casually report about money being stolen from their country and invested abroad under their watch without shame or remorse. From their abovementioned revelations, the amount stolen from Kenyans translates into $15,503,876 daily and $5,658,914,740 annually using the March 2025 exchange rate. An exposé by the International Consortium of Journalists (ICJ) found that Uhuru Kenyatta’s family had accumulated billions of dollars in secret offshore accounts during his tenure. The only reason why Kenyan politicians may try to overemphasize the importance of USAID’s departure is that it plugs financial holes that would attract public attention to their corruption.
Aid for Bankrolling Sex Abuse of African Children
An important reason why the Kenyan government should seek other means of funding its project is that USAID has been used to finance and cover the sex exploitation of Kenyan children. For instance, the agency funded Nyumbani Children’s Home, run by the Children of God Relief Institute (COGRI) in 1999, an organization whose one of the founders’ internal memos revealed that she was aware of child abuse from as early as 2006. However, USAID continued funding COGRI for over 2 decades until a whistleblower alerted it of children’s abuse in the institution. This event reveals how USAID was not interested or was unable to perform a background evaluation of the conduct of recipients of its funds. Investigations into the conduct of COGRI revealed that the officials were aware (or should have been aware) of repeated instances of children’s sexual abuse, but did not take measures to stop it and help affected children. Instead, one cofounder insisted on blaming the victims, reflecting the hateful or irresponsible attitude that this white missionary had towards Kenyan children.
USAID’s unquestioning enthusiasm to work with child-molesting organizations made it the benefactor not only in the case of COGRI, but also another bogus charity organization named CARITAS CENTRAFRIQUE, ran by a convicted Belgian pedophile. A 2019 CNN report revealed how Luk Delf, a supposed devotee of a Catholic Church order for protecting children, started and ran a children’s home despite being a convicted pedophile. Not only did the church fail vulnerable children by exposing them to this molester, but the USAID funded the organization, hence bankrolling such despicable sexual exploitation. While Delf was found with child pornography in addition to having been convicted, USAID continued to feign a lack of evidence to keep funding an organization that exposed children to sex exploitation. It is possible that pedophiles in COGRI and CARITAS CENTRRIQUE were conducting other activities that the US government deemed more important than protecting the well-being of black children in Africa. If Trump choses to terminate US aid, he can be sure that it will not be missed by some in Africa.
Simon Chege Ndiritu, is a political observer and research analyst from Africa
