African Leaders Cause High Level of Poverty - Says Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says
African leaders should be held accountable
for what he described as high level of
poverty in the continent.
He said this in Lagos during a launch of
knowledge driven toy called Ethan and
Harriet which is meant to educate children
on the culture and heritage of Nigerian.


Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari
will be in Kenya on Saturday be to attend
the two-day sixth Tokyo International
Conference on African Development. This is
contained in a statement issued in Abuja
yesterday by the president’s Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi
Adesina.
The statement said that the summit was
being organised by the government of
Japan, United Nations office of the Special
Adviser on Africa, United Nations
Development Programme, African Union and
the World Bank.
The summit will focus on promoting
structural economic transformation through
diversification and industrialisation