Nigeria: corruption in the Delta
Updated on 22 October 2007
As Kofi Annan awards a prize for good government to one former African leader, More4 News finds out why it will take more than cash gifts to free African politics from the shackles of corruption
Today an African leader won a prize for not being corrupt. Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan gave the first Mo Ibrahim Prize to Joaquim Chissano, the widely respected former president of Mozambique.
The scale of the problem posed by corruption, however, is vast. And nowhere more so than in Nigeria. It's a country with enviable natural wealth - which should make it one of the richest countries in the world - but its population lives largely in poverty because that wealth is plundered.
Some of Nigeria's wealth is spent here in Britain - and recently the Government launched a new initiative to crack down on the worldwide assets of corrupt African leaders.
For More 4 News, Andrew Thomas will be reporting throughout this week from Nigeria, one of Africa's most extraordinary countries. Tonight - on the trail of dirty money, from London to the Nigerian oilfields.
