Buhari to Cameron: Return stolen assets

London / AFP

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday that he did not want an apology from Prime Minister David Cameron for calling his country “fantastically corrupt”, but said Britain could return assets stolen by officials who fled to London.
“I am not going to demand any apology from anybody. What I am demanding is the return of the assets,” Buhari told an anti-corruption event hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London.
“This is what I’m asking for. What would I do with an apology?” he said to cheers from many civil society organisations and Nigeria delegates in the audience.
The British prime minister is hosting a major anti-corruption summit in London on Thursday, which Buhari is attending alongside Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
But in a diplomatic gaffe, Cameron was caught on camera on Tuesday saying that the leaders of some “fantastically corrupt” countries were attending.