In spite of President Muhammadu Buhari’s fight against corruption in Nigeria, British Prime Minister David Cameron has tagged the country and Afghanistan “possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world.”, Guardian reports.
“We’ve got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain,” Cameron said, apparently referring to the anti-corruption summit he is hosting on Thursday.
“Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world,” he said, according to a video clip published by the ITV News channel on Tuesday.
It was not clear if Cameron knew he was being filmed.He made the remarks to Queen Elizabeth II and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at an eventmarking the monarch’s 90th birthday last month.
President Muhammadu Buhari and Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani are both due to attend the summit alongside US Secretary of State John Kerry and the heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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