Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu
Buhari on Tuesday in Poland said those fanning embers of discord in Nigeria are
illiterates and ignorant.
Buhari spoke when he visited the
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, in Oświęcim, Poland, where he paid
tribute to Holocaust victims.
A statement issued by Garba
Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba
Shehu, said after an hour and 10 minutes guided tour of the Museum, devoted to
the memory of the victims who died at both camps during World War II, Buhari
penned a hand-written tribute in the visitor’s book, quoting Shakespeare’s
”Julius Caesar”.
”The evil that men do lives after
them; the good is oft interred with their bones”.
The President also laid a wreath
at Block 11 of the museum, known as the ‘‘Death block.’’ Here, according to an
epitaph in the Block: ”Male and female prisoners from all parts of the camp
complex where held in this building…following brutal interrogations, they were
in most cases sentenced to death by shooting.”
Shortly before leaving the
Museum, which included the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz
II-Birkenau, Buhari, fielding questions from State House Correspondents
traveling with him, described those fanning embers of discord in Nigeria as
”illiterates and ignorant.”
The President is on Day four of
his visit to Poland, where he had attended the opening of the UN Climate Change
Conference in Katowice, delivered his national address at the 12-day meeting of
COP24, met with several world leaders and visited the impressive Nigerian
pavilion at the climate summit.
The President had earlier
attended a town-hall meeting with Nigerians in Poland, a day after his arrival
in the country.
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