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Video: Nigerians upset after Cameron’s ‘Fantastically corrupt’ comments

British Prime Minister, David Cameron has been caught on camera making a controversial comment to the Queen about Nigeria which has not gone down well with many Nigerians.

Cameron was speaking in a group alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, the Leader of the Commons Chris Grayling and the Commons Speaker, John Bercow

He was overheard describing Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt”, yesterday (May 9, 2016) ahead of the Nigerian President’s trip to London for an anti-corruption summit.

Here’s what was said:

John Bercow: The great axis of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the House [Chris Grayling].

David Cameron: Well I don’t know about that. We’re on the same side most of the time.

We’ve had a very successful cabinet meeting this morning to talk about our anti-corruption summit, we’ve got the Nigerians… actually we’ve got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain. Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world.

Justin Welby: But this particular president is actually not corrupt.

Queen: Is that right?

Welby: Oh yes, he’s trying very hard this one.

Bercow: They are coming at their own expense, one assumes?

Cameron: I… Yes… Because it’s an anti-corruption summit, everything has to be open. So there are no sort of closed door sessions, it’s all in front of the press. It could be quite, umm, interesting. But there we go

Read Nigerian’s reaction on social media below…

 

-DanielFayemi for encomium.ng

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