The Nigerian presidency on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 described the comments of David Cameron, the prime minister of the United Kingdom on Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt country” as embarrassing and shameful to the nation.
David Cameron labelled Nigeria as one of the most corrupt nations in the world while debriefing the QUeen of England on the forth-coming anti-corruption summit organized by the UK to be attended by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday.
Cameron, as some analysts have said may have taken a cue from Buhari who has consistently spoilt his country, describing his countrymen as a bunch of corrupt people, hence he has systematically demarketed his country to the western world.
In a statement made available by President Muhammadu Buhari’s senior special assistant on media, Garba Shehu, shortly after Cameron’s comments, Buhari’s media aides said “This is embarrassing to us, to us say the least, given the good work that the President is doing.
“The eyes of the world are on what is happening here. The Prime Minister must be looking at an old snapshot of Nigeria. Things are changing with corruption and everything else.”
Cameron was said to have been caught on camera describing Nigeria as a fantastically corrupt country on Tuesday afternoon. He was said to have told the British Queen Elizabeth II, that Nigeria and Afghanistan are “two of the most corrupt countries in the world”.
He told Queen Elizabeth of the notoriety of countries that are preparing to participate in the anti-corruption summit to mark the Queen’s 90 birthday in Buckingham Palace where he fingered Nigeria as one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
