Kigali: President Kagame begins his two day visit to Abuja today with a keynote address at the opening of the National Democracy Day Anti-Corruption Summit officiated by Host President Muhammadu Buhari.
On the second day of his visit, President Kagame will attend the official inauguration ceremony of President Buhari who was reelected in February of this year.
Held under the theme “Curbing Electoral Spending: A panacea to Public Corruption” the summit is organised by the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in collaboration with the Presidential Inauguration Planning Committee.
President Kagame is invited to speak about Rwanda’s fight against corruption which has led to Rwanda emerging among the three less corrupted countries in Africa for the last 2 years. Rwanda was also the first country in Africa to introduce the e-procurement system in 2016.
In 2018, President Buhari championed the African Union theme “Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa’s Transformation”. He has also made anti- corruption one of his campaign themes in 2019 and vowed that the fight against corruption and Illicit Financial Flows will remain a top priority. (End)