Afghanistan’s former finance minister and ex-presidential candidate who ran on an anti-corruption platform said the country’s government must be committed to making sure that foreign aid funds are subjected to “checks and balances” that will allow for transparency and accountability.
In an interview with NPR, Ashraf Ghani said “the Afghan government creates the financial management, accountability, the transparency necessary to make sure that the funds are used properly. And corruption has not been in the use of foreign money - that has gone to the Afghan government, because there is a series of checks and balances, and to make sure that the higher-ups don’t steal this and that it is accountable.”
Ghani, also a former World Bank official, was appointed coordinator of the recently concluded international conference on Afghanistan in Kabul.