British PM, Cameron says Nigeria is ‘fantastically’ corrupt (Video)

As President Muhammadu Buhari prepares to attend British Prime Minister, David Cameron hosted anti-corruption summit in London, the latter has been caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday, that Nigeria is “fantastically corrupt”.

The British Prime Minister, who may have been oblivious that he was being recorded, had told the Queen that leaders of some “fantastically corrupt” countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend his anti-corruption summit.

The international anti-corruption summit, to be hosted by Cameron on Thursday, is aimed at stepping up global action to combat corruption in all walks of life.

The video feed was made available to the ITN broadcaster.

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“We had a very successful cabinet meeting this morning, talking about our anti-corruption summit. 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”, Cameron said to the Queen as she approached.

In the video, the Queen did not respond to Cameron’s comment, however, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who was present, said: “But this particular president is actually not corrupt.”

President, Muhammadu Buhari and Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani, are both billed to attend the summit. They have both confessed to widespread corruption in their countries.

Afghanistan is ranked 166, second-from-bottom, on the Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index, while Nigeria is ranked 136.

Continuing, Cameron said in the video: “Everything has to be open. There are no sort of closed-door sessions. Everything has to be in front of the press. It’s going to be. It could be quite interesting.”

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