Unrelenting Buhari says he met a country where corruption was a culture

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is unrelenting as he insists past administrations are the reason the country has continued to witness unprecedented poor economy since his emergence almost two years ago.

He said that the level of corruption at personal and institutional levels his administration met was unbelievable, adding that the years of mishandling of the economy at a period of financial affluence caused the current economic problem ravaging the country.

The President, who said that corruption was turning into a culture at his coming, boasted that his target of reversing the “culture of corruption” in the country had received commendations from Nigerians, as many now understand from the ongoing investigations and prosecutions, the depth of damage done by some previous administration.

This was contained in a statement on Thursday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, as the outcome of what transpired when the President received the Letter of Credence of the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. William Symington, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

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“The corruption we met at personal and institutional levels was unbelievable. Corruption was turning into a culture. After we came in, people started realising the truth,” he said.

President Buhari further told the ambassador his administration’s resolve to continue investigations and prosecution of corrupt persons in the country, maintaining that Nigeria will either kill corruption or corruption will kill Nigeria in the long run.

He said, “It has not been easy for another party to come in and get things done properly, especially with the new economic reality of $37 per barrel of oil, against the $100 for the period, and there was no savings, no infrastructure on ground.”

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