Christiane Amanpour: Obviously you sit atop massive reserves of natural gas and that leads me to the whole issue of corruption which you say you are trying to tackle. And when people look at Nigeria and see all your wealth, they say, “Oh my goodness! This is a country that is stealing and bleeding itself dry.” Even your own minister, your minister of finance, has talked about, you know, just this past April, perhaps 400,000 barrels of oil a day simply being stolen, simply disappearing without any account. One of your ministers has said that the level of theft from the country, from the government, amounts to about $7bn a year. That’s still a problem, isn’t it? GEJ: In fact when you talk about crude oil stealing, yes I agree with you. Frankly speaking, we want international community to support Nigeria. Because this stolen crude is being bought by refineries abroad and they know the crude was stolen. The world must condemn what is wrong. The stolen crude is refined abroad, is not refined in Nigeria. That is our president for you, passing the buck to the international community. So typical.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:02:50 +0000
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