I Did Not Call Nigerians Criminals- Buhari

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I Did Not Call Nigerians Criminals- Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari, has refuted the allegation that he described Nigerians as criminals. He also described as misconstrued, the numerous interpretation of his comments in an interview he granted to the United Kingdom’s Telegraph newspaper on February 5, 2016. Buhari in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, argued that the spate of negative reactions, that has trailed his remarks about the reputation of Nigerians abroad was a result of an incomplete understanding of his points. The statement reads; “President Buhari was asked about the flood of migrants from Nigeria and the fraudulent applications for asylum put in by people desperate to leave their motherland at any cost, and it was this question that elicited his response.” The statement further notes that it is outrageous for anyone to have the imagination that President Buhari would go to the extent of describing all the citizens of Nigeria as criminals. The statement addsthat, “Unfortunately, there are also Nigerians giving their country a bad image abroad, and it is to those Nigerians that the President referred in his comments. “People may play politics and online games with the President’s comments, but the fact of the matter remains that Nigeria’s reputation abroad has been severely damaged by her own citizens. These Nigerians who leave their country to go and make mischief on foreign shores have given the rest of us a bad reputation that we daily struggle to overcome. “President Buhari is very aware of the problems the people of Nigeria face both at home and abroad, and he is not shying away from admitting them even as he focuses on solutions to bring them to a permanent end.” 

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