Buhari’s Corruption Fight Is ‘Nonsense’ – Queen Of England Ex-Representative

Buhari’s corruption fight is ‘nonsense’ – Queen of England ex-representative, Kwande

By John Owen Nwachukwu

A
former Nigerian Ambassador to Switzerland and ex-Administrative Officer
representing the Queen of England, Yahaya Kwande, has described the
corruption fight of President Muhammadu Buhari as ‘nonsense.’

The
90-year-old Northern elder told Sun that even before Buhari formed his
cabinet in 2015, he (Kwande) told the world that the President cannot
fight corruption.

He said that people thought Buhari would cut
off his neck for speaking the truth, adding that the current method of
war against graft will not work in Nigeria system.

According
to him, “I said something on the fight against corruption and they kept
on repeating it on the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) because
they thought Buhari will cut my neck.

“They interviewed me at the time he was yet to constitute his cabinet and I said he can’t even do it (fight corruption).

“They
asked again, and I said Buhari cannot and I said but he will try. Now
one of the policemen in Aso Rock (Presidential Villa) rang me and sent
me a text again to say that they have started talking about it.

“I
told them you leave here to go to Abuja and the ordinary man, poor man,
20 of them in a small bus, you are shouting that you are the leader of
anti-corruption crusade in the world and in your country, the driver
that is sitting driving you; for every police checkpoint he would bribe
the police and somebody will take the bribe, he gives the bribe all
through from Jos to Abuja; and you say you want to stop bribery in your
country, every day you are lying.

“It’s nonsense, what result is
it yielding if the ordinary man will not feel happy that his money is
his money, and the taxi driver that manages to get some money to buy an
old vehicle so that he will pick, N20, N20 on the road, only to share
with somebody that is being paid and you are still shouting that you are
stopping bribery and corruption because you recovered N10 billion from
somebody that has kept it somewhere? Does the poor man care; does he
know what is a billion?

“We heard about the billions but every
day a clerk now…. I wouldn’t mention that. What bribery are you talking
about that you are stopping?”

Source:- Dailypostng