STOLEN MONEY ISSUES FROM NIGERIA MADE PRESIDENT BUHARI SICK

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ATTENDS JUMA'AT PRAYER AT THE STATE HOUSE MOSQUE IN ABUJA
File: From second left: National Security Adviser, retired Brig.-Gen. Babagana Monguno; President Muhammadu Buhari; Chief of Staff, Alhaji Abba Kyari and others after the Juma'at prayers attended by President Buhari at the State House Mosque in Abuja ./NAN

Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, says President Muhammadu Buhari got sick when he saw how much had been looted from Nigeria.

He stated this in his presentation at the Tracking Faulty Towers workshop which held at the University of Kent, London.

"There is no corruption in Nigeria anymore because there is nothing else to steal and loot.

"When Buhari saw how much has been looted, he became sick… We are happy that Nigeria is no longer among the ten top countries in the world.

"Western countries accepting Nigeria and other countries stolen money should be the ones tagged corrupt," he said.

"In my village, the custodian of stolen things is seen as the main criminal… People cannot steal in western countries because where to keep the stolen money is a challenge. The Western world made their system very difficult to steal and loot money."

Checking corruption

Sowore therefore commended President Buhari for putting in place strict measures to check corruption.

"Transferring money from abroad to Nigeria has a limit and the charges are high but in Nigeria, we don't have such until Buhari came into power.

"We have the duty to challenge our leaders and the primitive accumulation of wealth Nigeria.

"We need a serious re-orientation programme for the youth on the belief of quick wealth accumulation through corruption and crime.

"We need to let them know that the only way is through honest means and hard work," the publisher said.