By Jerome R. Corsi
The Obama administration is buying votes in Kenya, charges Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health.
WND reported Monday the Obama administration has funded $23 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars through the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, to support the passage of a Kenyan constitutional referendum Aug. 4 that would increase access to abortions and authorize the operation of Islamic law tribunals in the East African nation.
In a statement issued by his office yesterday, Smith charged that several Kenyan groups receiving USAID money had been given specific quotas built into their USAID contracts requiring the grantees to each produce 20,000 "yes" votes for the Aug. 4 referendum.
"A chart produced by USAID's inspector-general shows that 60 sub-recipients got funds for activities that include transportation, fuel, road shows, voter ID and 'yes' vote 'buy in' for professional elites," Smith said.
"It is unconscionable that U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing a massive one-sided political campaign thinly disguised as 'civic education' in another sovereign nation," the congressman said. "It is a very bad precedent and it is illegal."
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