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“FIVE Most Corrupt Leaders In Africa.” As Buhari Gets Praise For His Lifestyle.

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As Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari saluted his supporters during his inauguration in Abuja, Nigeria, on May 29 2015. An official in Nigeria says the new president’s wealth declaration shows that he has been living “an austere and Spartan lifestyle” compared to his predecessors and other senior government officials, with $150,000 in his personal account. (Sunday Alamba/AP)

Washington post reports that with only $150,000 savings, Nigeria’s leader may be least corrupt in Africa.

By the standards of sub-Saharan African leaders, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is dirt-poor.

According to a statement released by his government, he has $150,000 in his savings account. He owns five homes and two mud houses, an orchard and ranch with 270 head of cattle, 25 sheep, five horses and a variety of birds. He has bought two cars from his savings.




“President Buhari had no foreign account, no factory and no enterprises. He also had no registered company and no oil wells,” reads the statement released by the spokesman, Garba Shehu, describing the president’s assets as “Spartan.”
The question on many minds is this: Is Buhari, Nigeria’s former military ruler and ex-head of the oil ministry, telling the truth?

Corruption, after all, is a major problem in Africa’s largest economy. Buhari himself has publicly said that more than $150 billion is missing from the government’s coffers. Still, the public declaration appears to be an attempt to show some much-needed transparency. Buhari was elected in March largely by promising that he wouldn’t tolerate corruption.

What’s clear is that Buhari has done what his predecessors — and most other African leaders — have never done.

Consider these five other African leaders. They have been labeled by Forbes Magazine as the “five worst leaders in Africa.”

1. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of Equatorial Guinea

He’s Africa’s longest-serving ruler, an autocrat who leads the tiny, oil-rich West African nation of Equatorial Guinea. Despite its vast natural wealth, the majority of its people live in deep poverty with no access to clean drinking water, proper educational or health facilities. One fifth of children die before age 5. The money has gone into the pockets of Mbasogo and his family. They own luxury properties in the United States and other countries, a private jet and a fleet of luxury cars.

2. José Eduardo dos Santos, president of Angola

He’s Africa’s second-longest-serving leader. Angola is the continent’s second-largest oil producer, and one of the biggest suppliers of oil to the United States. It also has massive diamond deposits. Dos Santos’s relatives hold key positions in his government and control a huge share of Angola’s economy, amid widespread allegations of corruption. Nearly 70 percent of the population lives in dire poverty, and a third of the nation’s children are malnourished.

3. Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe

He has ruled the southern African nation for a quarter-century. He was the architect of controversial policies, most notably the seizure of white-owned commercial farms. Though the country in recent years has seen an economic rebound, Mugabe remains one of the continent’s most autocratic rulers. He wields nearly total control of government institutions, and his loyalists have used violence to retain control. Human rights abuses are rife, while unemployment remains among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa.

4. Omar Al-Bashir, president of Sudan

Bashir seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1989 and has since disbanded political parties, the nation’s parliament and many privately-owned media outlets. Under his rule, civil war erupted, in which more than 1 million people were killed. Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court at the Hague on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the killing and rape of civilians in Sudan’s Darfur region. A U.S. diplomatic cable, leaked by Wikileaks, unveiled that Bashir may have stolen as much as $9 billion from state coffers and deposited it into his private bank accounts in Great Britain.

5. King Mswati III, king of Swaziland

He is the continent’s last reigning monarch, presiding over a nation with one of the world’s highest HIV rates, where average life expectancy — 33 years — is among the lowest in the world. Despite his people’s suffering, the king leads a lavish life with a taste for luxury cars, first-class travel and expensive parties, even as the nation’s economy is in dire straits.




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7 Comments to ““FIVE Most Corrupt Leaders In Africa.” As Buhari Gets Praise For His Lifestyle.”
God bless him
The devil lives in men too. While reading this article I was curious to ask why the developed nations like USA, UK, SWITZERLAND etc allow stolen monies to be kept with them. Does this not in anyway encourage corruption? If leaders know that such stolen funds have no place of rest, they will think a hundred times before stealing public funds. Is it not possible, that such monies are used to develop America and Europe at the expense of the countries from where there were stolen? Africa is plagued by leaders who are blind and very arrogant.
You are right Femi,our problems are these so called developed nations;they encouraged these leaders with mouthwatering investment opportunities, they stole our money and they accepted them,use the funds to aid there economy and after decades they will be shouting fundamental human rights abuse.The USA and Europe are the most guilty, why will they accept a $$ billion investment from a leader of a country when they knew they were never business men
Thank you so much Pastor Sunday for unrelenting dedication to the service of the Most High. A great inspiration and mentor. I do no regret having known you.
Greate information but the question how is information justified to be valid and used for change in Africa????????? LOOKING AT SOUTH SUDAN AND BURINDI TODAY WHO IS TO BEST? we may thing the worse leadership might be their but not
I wish all Africa ll learn frm their mistake
This is a huge relief for us. At least we are not the worst

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