Africa: Effects of Corruption On Sustainable Development in Africa

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari

By Mawutodzi Kodzo Abissath

An American IT guru, Marto Thomas, once said: “There are two kinds of people in the world: Givers and Takers. The Takers may eat better, but the Givers sleep better.”

However, when it comes to matters of corruption, the popular saying is that: “Both the Giver and the Taker are guilty.”

On Wednesday, 11 May 2016, while in London to participate in the Ant-Corruption Summit in that country, the calm, cool and soft-spoken President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria told the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron something to this effect: “Keep your apologies and return my stolen moneys to me.” Obviously, he was provoked when Prime Minister, Cameron ‘framed’ Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt.”

President Buhari, on that occasion described corruption as “hydra-headed monster which threatened the security of countries and does not differentiate between developed and developing countries.” But when the wise Nigerian leader was reported by BBC to