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| President Muhammadu Buhari addresses delegates at the start of a conference to tackle corruption at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London |
President Muhammadu
Buhari on Wednesday he is not demanding “any apology from anybody” after United
Kingdom Prime Minister, David Cameron, labelled his country “fantastically
corrupt.”
The Nation report continues:
Speaking
at an anti-corruption event in London, Buhari said he was more interested in
the return of stolen assets held in British banks.
Mr.
Cameron made the unguarded comments in a conversation with the Queen, the BBC
reports.
He
is hosting an international anti-corruption summit on Thursday.
Nigeria
was ranked 136th in Transparency International’s 2015 Corruption Perceptions
Index.
Asked
at the event if Nigeria was “fantastically corrupt”, Buhari said: “Yes.”
In
his speech, the Nigerian leader described corruption as a “hydra-headed
monster” which threatened the security of countries and “does not differentiate
between developed and developing countries.”
He
said corruption in Nigeria was endemic and his government was committed to
fighting it.
The
UK government will host world and business leaders at the summit on Thursday in
London, aiming to “galvanize a global response to tackle corruption.”
Speaking
ahead of the summit, Mr. Cameron said: “For too long there has been a taboo
about tackling this issue head-on.
“The summit will change
that. Together we will push the fight against corruption to the top of the
international agenda where it belongs.”
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