Hmmmmn this may come to you as a surprise (especially if you are a nigerian.me sef i neva gree o) but fellas its for real. 77 year old President of Paraguay Jose Mujlca is officially the world's poorest and most generous president.
This is not just because he can not be richer but because he chose put a smile on the faces of less privileged.
Reports has it that Mujlca donates a whooping 90% of his earnings to charitable causes which has earned him the sobriquet “el presidente mas pobre” translates to “poorest president”.
He lives in a farmhouse which is under his wife’s name, Lucía Topolansky, a Senator, who also donates part of her salary.
The President who took over office on the 1st of March 2010,said in a recent interview that the only big item he owns is his Volkswagen Beetle car, valued at $1,945 dollars (about N308,283) .
He earns a salary of
$12,500 a month (N1,981,250), but only keeps $1,250(N198,125) for himself, donating the rest to charity.
He also told El Mundo, “I do fine with that amount; I have to do fine because there are many Uruguayans who live with much less.”
His country ranks as the second least corrupt country in Latin America in Transparency International’s global corruption index.
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