Human right lawyer, Femi Falana. (photo: Channels TV)
One of Nigeria’s respected lawyers Femi Falana (SAN) has stated that western countries are more corrupt than those in Africa.
The human rights lawyer made this known on Monday in a paper titled Human Rights Issues Surrounding The Non-Return Of Assets To Countries Of Origin.
The paper read, it was gathered, was delivered last week at the Second Forum of the Anti-Corruption Situation Room.
The paper read in part, “There has been a massive and accelerated transfer of much of the wealth from the developing world into developed economies around the world, much of which was looted from various treasuries across Africa and in the rest of the developing world.”
“African governments and anti-corruption bodies should stop labelling Africa as a continent of corrupt people. London is the centre of global corruption. The banks of western countries receive and keep stolen wealth from Africa and other developing countries.
“Western governments conveniently hid behind the free movement of capital ideology to fold their arms and turn the other way for many years after the end of the Cold War. This laissez-faire attitude on the part Western leaders encouraged corrupt leaders from Africa to use stolen wealth from their various countries to establish an individual presence in their economies; buying shares in major corporations, mansions and other landed properties, yachts, planes, you name it.”