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Later, however, it found $20 million worth of coffee receipts in Kenya. At "liberation" the government found in its coffers just $200,000 in foreign exchange to meet $250 million of debts abroad. The figures so far available pretty well justify this gloom. Its own initial report was extremely bleak and concluded that "eight years of sustained mismanagement and gross malad-ministration of Uganda have ruined virtually every economic and social sector of the country."
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Since taking over, the new government as well as potential aid donors have been trying to assess the dimensions of the economic disaster and what will be needed to right the mess. All others were planned, the foundation stone laid and that was the end of them." "During his rule," a civil servant said, "Amin started and completed only one project - the color television system. Nothing worked," commented one Ugandan priest bitterly. As a result, the cement dust piled up until the roof collapsed. How following the 1972 expulsion of Asians, the new owners of the country's cement factory in Tororo did not see the use of sweeping the plant's roof every week.
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How Amin's supposedly crack "Madi Mechanized Unit" had to get a mechanic from a nearby Catholic mission all the time to come and fix its tanks, armored cars and vehicles because none worked. How Amin appointed a "minister of foreign exchange" and then fired him when the man *kept reporting back that the country had no foreign exchange.
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How Amin and his cronies and their girlfriends regularly took suitcases full of dollars - up to $1 million on some occasions - from the bank whenever they went abroad. Such are the stories that Ugandans repeat these days with caustic humor as they relate to foreigners how their country, once one of Africa's wealthiest, was run into the ground through sheer neglect and incompetence by Amin and his semiliterate spendthrift assistants. "Print 3 million and take 1 million for yourself," Amin angrily retorted. At the close of their talks, he gingerly asked how he was to be paid. An agent for a British money-printing firm recently related how several years ago he personally negotiated a contract with Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to print 2 million shillings worth of 100 shilling notes.