President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has told a conference in London of the steps his government has taken to tackle corruption since taking office a year ago.

President BUHARI listed the Treasury Single Account whereby all federal government revenue goes into one account, as a key component of his anti-corruption strategy.BUHARI told an audience at the pre- summit conference that TSA measure would make it impossible for public officers to divert public funds to private accounts, as was being done in the past.The Nigerian leader also informed the audience that his administration has been able to remove some twenty-three thousand ghost workers from the government payroll, thereby saving billions of naira that would have been stolen.
On the unfavourable comment by United Kingdom Prime Minister, DAVID CAMERON, President Buhari said he does not want an apology.
BUHARI said for CAMERON’s description of Nigeria as fantastically corrupt, what he wants is the repatriation of assets stashed in the United Kingdom by corrupt Nigerians.  He recounted how disgraceful one of the Nigerian executives had to escape from Britain dressed in a woman’s attire, and leaving behind huge sums of money in bank accounts and fixed assets.He expressed the hope that the British government would handover such stolen wealth, stressing that he needed something tangible, as there was nothing he could do with an apology.The pre-summit conference was organised by development partners, the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, Transparency International and other civil society groups.