“What I am demanding is the return of the assets”, Buhari told an anti-corruption event hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London.
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Thursday’s meeting at London’s elegant Lancaster House has drawn politicians from around the world, including the presidents of Afghanistan, Nigeria and Colombia.
Aremu said for the 200 million Nigerians, nothing was “fantastic” about these revealed loots but a lot about this wholesale rape of a country is tragic and criminal as it has undermined national development.
Speaking ahead of the summit, Mr Cameron said: “The evil of corruption reaches into every corner of the world”.
Mr Cameron was chatting to Queen Elizabeth about the anti-corruption summit at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday when a camera recorded his remarks.
Mr Cameron called corruption “the cancer at the heart of so numerous problems we need to tackle in our world” – noting that illicit flows alone cost the world 1.26 trillion United States dollars.
He also mentioned corruption in the country was endemic and he is committed to fighting it.
But the results are mixed, with many countries failing to commit to the toughest actions sought by British Prime Minister David Cameron.
A Downing Street spokesman noted both men had written openly about the subject in a collection of essays being published this week.
“I would expect David Cameron should be busy answering questions on the Panama saga than insulting the integrity of my nation”, he said.
Mr Buhari echoed these concerns in his address, quoting from a previous studyinto corruption in the country’s oil sector.
He added: “The Prime Minister was merely stating a fact. These are both countries with serious corruption problems and the leaders of both those countries know they have those problems and are determined to deal with them”.
The two countries, along with France and the Netherlands, will commit at the summit to launching their own public registers of true company ownership, the British government said. Nigeria is ranked 136th.
Cameron made the announcement at the start of a global anti-corruption summit he is hosting in London, but critics said the proposed register may not be enough to make a meaningful impact on the scourge of graft.
“Therefore calling Afghanistan in that way.is unfair”.
“The summit will change that”.
“At this stage, when the anti-corruption conference is due to be held in London, we were not expecting the British government to raise the issue”.
Provided that aid money does not enter government coffers, experts say that it can improve lives even against a background of general corruption. The UK heads the world’s biggest financial secrecy network.
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“We don’t ask for decades but this is a process of change”.
