UK playing key function to make Nigeria corruption unfastened – Envoy

Mr Paul Arkwright

British excessive Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Paul Arkwright, said UK and Queen Elizabeth II had been devoted to playing a key function in making Nigeria a better place.


Arkwright, in keeping with a assertion by means of Joseph Abuku, Media Officer, British excessive fee in Nigeria, stated this at a rite to mark the queen’s 91st birthday in Abuja on Tuesday.

The excessive Commissioner stated that the birthday celebration become a mark of the sturdy partnership among the UK and Nigeria.

He stated that the UK and the Queen had been gambling a key role to paintings with different stakeholders to make Nigeria a place where corruption might locate no location to cover.

Queen Elizabeth II 

The envoy stated that British authorities changed into also dedicated to operating together with the non-public region and civil society firms to create jobs and promote increase.

He stated that the venture of activity creation for over two million younger humans that entered the activity marketplace each yr had grow to be vital and extra urgent.

“In a world which appears to be changing at a bewildering tempo, I’d like to pay tribute to Her Majesty.

“A awesome girl whose devotion to responsibility, steadfast faith and experience of provider to her people is unheard of – a lesson to us all.

“i might also want to pay tribute to all of those who are striving to make Nigeria a higher location, where humans are treated similarly, where corruption can discover no hiding region,” he said.

in step with him, the United Kingdom and Her Majesty’s government also are gambling a key function on this effort.

Arkwright said that Nigeria became united kingdom’s largest and most critical publish in Africa, with seven workplaces in the usa and over 800 human beings running for the British authorities in Nigeria.

(NAN)