Fantastically Corrupt Statement, FG Reacts To UK PM's Comment.

The British Prime Minister Mr David cameron was caught on video on Tuesday 10th May discussing is planned conference on Anti-Corruption summit in London with the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II at the Burkingham Palace where he categorically classified Nigeria and Afghanistan as two Countries that are the most fantastically corrupt in the world. He told the Queen the leaders of the two countries will be attending the conference which is billed to start on Thursday 12th May in London.

President Muhammadu Buhari left Nigeria on Monday to attend the summit in a bid to persuade the British government to help return looted funds from Nigeria by corrupt officials and individuals which are stashed mostly in Uk and US. It is a known fact and established case that the Transparency International (TI) ranked Nigeria 136th in the 167 countries TI most corrupt countries in the world and for Mr Cameron to say only Nigeria and Afghanistan are the most fantastically corrupt countries is absolutely not far from the truth. Afghanistan on its own is ranked 166th on the Transparency International corruption rating.
There has been argument for and against the UK PM's comment as regards Nigeria being a fantastically Corrupt country. The Federal government in a swift reaction to the allegation and Cameron's unguarded and unfavorable comments about Nigeria, Buhari's aide and SA on Media and Publicity Garba Shehu in a released statement says “This is embarrassing to us, to 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.”

The President's spokesperson however, commended the remarks made by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who immediately reacted to Cameron's statement that Nigeria’s present leader is not a corrupt one. The statement read: “Thank you to the Archbishop. We have great admiration for the good relationship between our two countries.”

This report is coming just hours after President Buhari left the shores of the country for London where he is expected to attend an anti-corruption summit with several other heads of state.
Back home in Nigeria, the social media as expected was agog with reactions from various quarters over the statement with some expressing their disappointment over the comments while some felt its just a reflection throwing their support for the UK Prime Minister
Some British tabloid however has taken a swipe at the Prime minister for the unfortunate statement saying it appears Mr Cameron was a bit tipsy having been served a little alcohol at the event noting that he was not supposed to have made that kind of remarks about a country seriously fighting corruption in all its entirety. He was also accused of being corrupt as well with his name being mentioned in the Panama papers which was recently released by an online leak agent.