President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented
that some Nigerians who had corruptly enriched themselves in the past
are currently using the stolen funds to wage war against his
administration.
He said the situation has made his administration’s ongoing anti-corruption war “tough and grueling.”
According to a statement on Thursday by
his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the
President spoke on Thursday in a meeting he had with the United States
Secretary of State, John Kerry, on the margins of conference on climate
change, COP22, in Marrakech, Morocco,
Although he said corruption was fighting vigorously back, the President assured Kerry that the anti-graft war would be won.
Buhari said corrupt people had
accumulated a formidable arsenal of illicit wealth, which they were now
deploying against the government on diverse fronts.
“But it is a war we are determined to
win, and which we will win. People of goodwill are behind us, countries
like America and many others are with us, and we will surely win,” he
said.