GELDOF, GELDOF GIVE US A SONG…

15-06-2006

Britain is showing it showing admirable commitment to fighting global poverty - by pocketing£1.7 billion in just six months from poverty-stricken Nigeria.

Anti-debt campaigners have been trying to get to the bottom of where the cash comes from - but without much help from secretive civil servants.

All we can be sure of is that the dosh isn't going to feed the hungriest inhabitants of one of Africa's poorest nations.

At last years Gleneagles summit, leaders of the world's richestcountries - the G8 - agreed to wipe out $17 billion of Nigerian debt.

They also pledged to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015.

How's that going to happen when Britain takes twice as much from just one country than was given to the whole of Africa in aid in 2005?

Jubilee Debt Campaign founder Audrey Miller is disgusted.

"Thousands of supporters whp took part in the Live 8 and Make Povert History event will like me will be horrified to know that the rich are taking such vast amounts from a country where 80 million people live on less than 60 pence a day.”