Acording to PUNCH, the President said those of them, who participated in the nation’s 30-month civil war that left millions of Nigerians dead, found the belief of Nigerians who lived in oil-rich areas that the natural resources belonged to them, very irritating.
Addressing Nigerians in Addis Ababa at a town hall meeting President Buhari said, “The theft of oil by some Nigerians that happen to live there, who feel that the oil belongs to them and not the country, is an irritating thing for those of us, who participated in the civil war for 30 months in which at least two million Nigerians were killed”.
Buhari was in Ethiopian capital attending to the 26th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He flown in from Kenya after a three day visit to the Kenyan president, where issues regarding terrorism and the economy were discussed between the two African leaders.
During his visit to Kenya, the Nigerian president also joined his host Kenyatta and other dignitaries at a memorial service for Kenyan soldiers who were killed by Al-Shabaab in Somalia on January 15.
He presided over a Kenya-Nigeria Business Forum in Nairobi and also met with Nigerians diaspora in Kenya.
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