Vice-President Kashim Shettima has hit back at Kemi Badenoch, leader of UK’s Conservative Party, over her comments about Nigeria.
Badenoch was born in the UK in 1980 to Nigerian Yoruba
parents. She returned to Nigeria, where she grew up. Badenoch finally departed
for the UK when she turned 16.
Before her election as leader of the Tories, Badenoch
described Nigeria as a socialist nation brimming with thieving politicians and
insecurity.
“This is my country. I don’t want it to become like the
place I ran away from,” she said.
“I grew up in Nigeria and I saw first hand what happens when
politicians are in it for themselves, when they use public money as their
private piggy banks, when they pollute the whole political atmosphere with
their failure to serve others.
“I saw what socialism is for millions. I saw poverty and
broken dreams. I came to Britain to make my way in a country where hard work
and honest endeavour can take you anywhere.”
Badenoch also said she “grew up in a place where fear was
everywhere. You cannot understand it unless you’ve lived it. Triple checking
that all the doors and windows are locked, waking up in the night at every
sound, listening as you hear your neighbours scream as they are being burgled
and beaten, wondering if your home would be next”.
‘NIGERIA IS GREATEST
BLACK NATION ON EARTH’
Speaking at the 10th Annual Migration Dialogue at the State
House in Abuja on Monday, Shettima said “migrants are the source of lives in
all societies”.
“Rishi Sunak, the former British prime minister, originally
from India, a very brilliant young man… he never denigrated his nation of
ancestry nor poured venoms on India,” the vice-president added.
“Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the British Labour or
Conservative Party. We are proud of her in spite of her efforts at denigrating
her nation of origin.
“She is entitled to her own opinions; she has even every
right to remove the Kemi from her name but that does not underscore the fact that
the greatest black nation on earth is the nation called Nigeria.
“One out of every three, four black men is a Nigerian and by
2050, Nigeria will surpass the United States, will be the third most populous
nation on earth.”
Badenoch, 44, served as shadow business and trade secretary
before her election as leader of the Conservative Party. She maintains a
hardline stance on immigration and has made excuses for Britain’s colonial
past.
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Is she lying? Nigerian politicians and leaders are satanic evil empire runners who are cursed by their master Satan to steal, loot, and cheat the masses and still mock Nigerians. May God punish them who engage in corruption like them! They've messed up the country sooo bad that the young ones have lost hope while they politicians sponsor threats, poverty, hardship and terror on them .
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