They protested that the former leader was treated without paying from his personal funds allegedly using public resources to cover the costs, calling it a symbol of the hypocrisy and failure of leadership in Nigeria.
Some Nigerians and members of the Take-It-Back Movement in London, staged a protest outside the London Clinic, the city’s largest private hospital, condemning late former President, Muhammadu Buhari’s use of public funds for overseas medical treatment while neglecting Nigeria’s collapsing healthcare system.
The demonstrators gathered on Harley Street, at the entrance of the prestigious private hospital — one of the most expensive in the UK — where Buhari reportedly received medical treatment multiple times during his presidency and after.
They protested that the former leader was treated without paying from his personal funds allegedly using public resources to cover the costs, calling it a symbol of the hypocrisy and failure of leadership in Nigeria.
They explained that if there was real leadership in Nigeria, health facilities would function in every state.
A protester stated that each state could have two or three world-class hospitals, but instead, the politicians loot public funds and spend them abroad.
The group denounced the former president’s record, recalling how Buhari once blamed the deteriorating state of Nigerian hospitals as justification for his 1983 military coup.
Decades later, they said, he failed to fix the same healthcare system, opting instead to rely on foreign hospitals for his own care.
Activists also questioned the secrecy surrounding Buhari’s health, both during his treatment and following his death, which they claimed occurred at the London Clinic.
The protest highlighted what the group called the “greatest fraud known to man”—a system where leaders exploit national resources while ordinary citizens are left without access to decent healthcare.
They said Nigerians are saving those who are destroying the country,” one speaker said “They go abroad when they are ill, but when our children are sick, where do we go?”
The activists criticised what they called a systemic betrayal, adding that ordinary Nigerians are denied quality medical care, while their leaders live lavishly on stolen wealth
The Take-It-Back Movement called on Nigerians to demand accountability and push for a radical transformation of the country’s healthcare system. “It’s time to take it back,” they chanted, urging citizens to rise against corruption and systemic failure.
One of the activist said, “Where are we live from? We’re live from the London clinic.This is the London clinic.This is the London’s largest, as we quoted, private hospital. Just on Harley Street.
“Now those who know can only but imagine the cost of a night’s treatment here.
For a suite of rooms in which you will be treated in, you can only but imagine the cost.
“But yet this place here, the London clinic with another branch just across the road there, was the place where the average Nigerian can’t even enter the door because they’d have to get on the plane to come here.
“Having got on the plane to come here, not only was the person who misruled us for how many years able to get full treatment, but he was able for it to be without payment from his pocket at London’s largest private hospital in Harley Street.”
Another protester said, “You know, even if there’s something there’s something very, very that is that is stirring, you know, that That will that will make there’s something brawling about this.”
“This is London Clinic. Go on the website and see how much the fees are for what they call self pay. The second speaker said “And I think it’s in the largest, private hospital In London. The largest private hospital in London. Bigger than the Wellington.
“The thing is that this man these people who came here for treatment, nothing stops them from going to the National Health Health Clinics or Hospital in London here because it is free.
“For someone like him, he has a British passport. So it will be free for him. So but, again, having the last laugh, he still went to a private hospital in this country.
“The cost, which is nothing but peanut to them anyway, because the public money it’s for free,” he said.
The activists stated, “It’s free for those Nigerian politicians because it is not their money in the first place.So they do whatever they like.
“But it is very expensive hospital for an ordinary person to come to.You can’t even afford it. Now my point is that I was looking at this hospital when we came here. What was going through my mind was this.
“If there was leadership, something like this would be in different parts of Nigeria. They would have this man would have produced created something like this in Nigeria.
“Each state would have two, three places like this. How many do they have now?
They will loot, steal the money, and at the end of the day, they will come and use that money and spend it abroad.”
The group said, “When this man was ill, we were never told what held him. Now he’s dead. Will we be told what killed him?
“Nigeria saved him. He’s killing us.
This is the London clinic. We’re saving those perpetrators of the greatest fraud known to man.
“That one which keeps you enslaved. If you like, take action. If you don’t like, take action. Whichever way it is, but question yourself.
“When your children are sick, when your parents are sick, what hospital do they go to in that contraption? That place called Nigeria. Where do they go?
“Is it the same London clinic? On that note, this is a short one with vigor and militancy.
We say take it back. Action,” they added.
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