{"id":49066,"date":"2016-05-08T16:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=49066"},"modified":"2016-05-09T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:03:15","slug":"british-newspaper-mocks-buharis-anti-corruption-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/british-newspaper-mocks-buharis-anti-corruption-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"British Newspaper Mocks Buhari&#8217;s Anti-Corruption Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3579070\/250million-given-Britain-Nigerian-president-five-homes-sends-daughter-26-000-year-English-school.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>\u00a3250million given by Britain to the Nigerian president with five homes who sends his daughter to a \u00a326,000-a-year English school<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A British newspaper has questioned President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s\u00a0anti-corruption credentials.<\/p>\n<p>The Mail Online said President Buhari who is typecast as the People\u2019s\u00a0President may be waging a war against corruption but that his critics have\u00a0described the war as a witch hunt.<\/p>\n<p>The paper said Buhari sends his daughter to a \u00a326,000-a-year English school\u00a0and that in April the opposition PDP party unearthed a ticket stub showing\u00a0Hanan, 16, had flown first-class from London to Nigeria, despite her\u00a0father\u2019s ban on officials using premium travel.<\/p>\n<p>The report quoted a Nigerian newspaper alleging Buhari had spent \u00a3150,000\u00a0on educating his daughter Zahra, a Surrey University student.<\/p>\n<p>The paper also reported Buhari\u2019s failure to give a full account of his\u00a0worth, and that even his partial admission included more than \u00a31million in\u00a0the bank, five houses and two plots of land.<\/p>\n<p>The publication comes 72 hours before President Buhari\u2019s scheduled arrival\u00a0in London for a world anti-corruption summit, to be hosted by UK\u2019s prime\u00a0minister, David Cameron. In his company, will be the attorney-general,\u00a0Abubakar Malami and EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Magu.<\/p>\n<p>But to the Mail Online, \u201cThe presence of Nigeria\u2019s president at David\u00a0Cameron\u2019s anti-corruption summit this week may surprise many in his nation\u00a0\u2013 which receives vast amounts of UK aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelf-proclaimed \u2018People\u2019s President\u2019 Muhammadu Buhari began a war on\u00a0corruption after taking power last year, but critics allege it is a\u00a0political witch-hunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government is giving nearly \u00a3250million in the coming year to\u00a0oil-rich Nigeria..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupporters say 49 arrests of members of the previous regime show the\u00a0anti-corruption war is genuine, but opponents say it is politically driven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria has the highest-paid government officials in the world but is one\u00a0of the largest beneficiaries of UK foreign aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president of its senate, Bukola Saraki, is due to face trial on\u00a0corruption charges after it emerged he has a \u00a36million London property in\u00a0his wife\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigerian Embassy did not comment\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Culled from Mail Online<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a3250million given by Britain to the Nigerian president with five homes who sends his daughter to a \u00a326,000-a-year English school A British newspaper has questioned President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s\u00a0anti-corruption credentials. 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