Just when President Muhammadu Buhari is airborne to the
United Kingdom, the Prime Minister of Britain, Mr. David Cameron was caught on
camera telling Queen Elizabeth that leaders of some “fantastically corrupt”
countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend his
anti-corruption summit.
Cameron will host an international anti-corruption summit on
Thursday aimed at stepping up global action to combat corruption in all walks
of life. He was talking with the queen about the summit in a meeting captured
in a pooled video feed made available to the ITN broadcaster and published by
Reuters.
“We had a very successful cabinet meeting this morning,
talking about our anti-corruption summit,” Cameron said when the queen
approached. “We have got the Nigerians – actually we have got some leaders of
some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain.”
“Nigeria and Afghanistan – possibly two of the most corrupt
countries in the world.”
Afghanistan is at number 166, second-from-bottom, in the
latest ranking of countries by the campaign group Transparency International’s
Corruption Perceptions Index,while Nigeria is at number 136 in the index.
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