₦airaland Forum

GloriousGbola:
Chief l am very close in age to madam Badenoch and I grew up middle class.

The time she claims she was reading by candle we had those red flourscent torch

People already had boreholes and wells in their houses. No one was going one kilometer with a rusty bucket. At the worst you buy water from aboki and store in your house.

The kindest thing I can say is she is appropriating the experiences of the actual poor to score political brownie points

It is now that we are older we realize our parents were struggling but still got stuff done.

Theflint1:
But what is this was her reality though, and it's imparted her world view exactly as she's described...I don't think Rishi Sunak grew in India at all, so it's pretty much two different things.

iamoyindamola:
I don't think I have
I will check Google for it

Theflint1:
And is it possible your middleclass experience was different from her middleclass experience?

Like two families fit dey, similar income bracket...famA priortizes going to the best schools, which means things like home entertainment and some other amenities take back burner, and famB chooses to send kids to okay schools, and things like PS, colored TV and cable is their norm.

Theflint1:
It can't be any more straightforward than this really. I don't know why Nigerian's are expecting some sorta gumbody from her...her responsibility and loyalty is to the British people, anything short of that is irresponsible, especially given the sort of position she occupies.

afrodoc2:
She did not grow up in poverty. Her parents held good money for Naija standards. It was their maid that went fetch water a mile away not her.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]The first question is if i want to identify as an Anambra. That's the important question.

The woman does not want to identify as a Nigerian. Why we wan force am?

If i don't want to have anything to do with Anambra, I will call it all sort of names.

Kemi does not want to be called a Nigerian. That's enough proof that she will knock Nigeria again and again[/color]

GloriousGbola:
Dude I posted the stories she wrote

She claimed she was reading with candle light in the 90s. I raise this picture and call bullshit

She claimed she was fetching water personally over 1km away from her house.

You either had a borehole or a well in your house or you paid aboki for water.

She claimed robberies every other night.

The woman is the equivalent of studio gangsters. She is just fortunate no one who knew her from that time is bothering to call her out on her Bullshit.

Theflint1:
Yea, she might be exaggerating some of the specifics (that fetching water 1KM away part), but her general description of growing up in Nigeria in the 90's, middleclass isn't off the mark.

GloriousGbola:
So to quote izzou - were you living in a dystopia? Though I don't know if you grew up in lagos or edo.

Theflint1:
I grew in Edo, and can relate with most of what she said...fetching water like 400-500M away, occasional water supply from waterboard, poor electricity, reading with candle and lantern...maybe the only exception would be that armed robbery thing, but I know armed robbery was rife in the 90's and early 2000s in some parts of the country.

Kemi grew in Nigeria in that Abacha time, it's not impossible for her impression of things from that era to be quite dystopian, even though it might not exactly have been. It's like a kid growing in Nigeria of today, they'd def remember it as an era of great economic uncertainty...and it's an era that's getting compared with the brutal days of Abacha.

Theflint1:
You can't be serious

OasisTwoMouth strikes again

OasisX:
Northerners and underage Voters are like 5 and 6.

OasisX:


.....Obidïot for a reason, ain't surprised. Simple digging you couldn't do, just jumped on it to mess up yourself cos izzou said so.

First and foremost, he was wrong coz I called it out not DonJ. He even quoted my post to seek for jail terms for those that registered the kids. LOL!

Theflint1:
And is it possible your middleclass experience was different from her middleclass experience?

Like two families fit dey, similar income bracket...famA priortizes going to the best schools, which means things like home entertainment and some other amenities take back burner, and famB chooses to send kids to okay schools, and things like PS, colored TV and cable is their norm.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Look at you trying to be clever by half. You think we cannot read?

You wrote "Northerners why?", then attached screenshots of southerners, and you called it first abi?

Anyone with eyes should please click on his post, and see he was responding to A4.0 that called out the children voters up North.

Called it out ko, prophesied upon it ni[/color]

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Not just the Conservative Party in UK. You see Nigerians in UK telling you how UK is a land of opportunities, ask you to show a high ranking black man in Chinese ruling party.
The truth is they give this black immigrants appointment/opportunity to appeal to certain voters/demography. These appointees or elected office holders are mere figurehead who must abide by the establishment foreign policy.
Obama was president of the US when NAFO destroyed Libya, turning the Sahel region into a terrorist haven. American defense companies selling weaponry to different factions in the region.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Look at you trying to be clever by half. You think we cannot read?

You wrote "Northerners why?", then attached screenshots of southerners, and you called it first abi?

Anyone with eyes should please click on his post, and see he was responding to A4.0 that called out the children voters up North.

Called it out ko, prophesied upon it ni[/color]

OasisX:


......Oga points out where I defended it?! Clever by half ko, clever by whole ni. Check the convo you and I had on it and points out where I defended it.

nihilistjnr:
RussianPornIsBae

OasisX:


......Oga points out where I defended it?! Clever by half, clever by whole ni. Check the convo you and I had on it and points out where I defended it.

Theflint1:
Have some shame

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
So OasiX was saying that what's good (under age 🔞voters) for the South is also good for the North..

That's an endorsement of illegality

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Ohh...So at least we have moved past "I called it out".

No, you didn't. For every one who complained about it up not, you didn't say anything. You rather posted those one in the south too. You have no post of stating this was a potential danger to Nigeria.

Make una relax. Even Tinubu knows they are instrumental to his future, and that was why he released them with "Abeg", meanwhile you guys were stating something else online.

No worry. Relax. You go need these children again.

Na just small setback[/color]

OasisX:


.....move where?! I called out underage Voters.....yes or no?! Whether in the North or South, does it matter?!

O yà show us where I defended Underage Voters bruh.

nihilistjnr:
Have to agree with with you.

I grew up in what I would class as a middle class household in the 90s in the trenches of Bariga and later Abule-Egba.

We used to have to go and fetch water in the morning before school from a tap that you stood under with your bucket on your head, and put in our plastic 'drums' in the kitchen and bathroom.

We used to get tons of roaches and particularly earthworms come through the bathtub drain, and one of my most enduring memories was having a permant bowl of salt next to the bath soap.

We didn't have a gen, and I wasn't allowed to watch TV during term time in primary school so I read a lot. My dad would take me to stop centre each year to pick a book for my birthday and to yaba and ikeja to buy comics that I would read by candle light at night, or sometimes go to the balcony to read by my neighbour's floodlight when their gen was on.

I attended a pretty expensive primary school for the most part and never felt out of place with the kids of some really rich people, and when I moved to Kiniun Ifa primary school in Gbagada in primary I was genuinely appalled despite the fact that most of classmstes lived in the same or similar neighborhoods.

I think some parents did an exemplary job of shielding their kids from the reality of their lives sha, and I'm very grateful to my parents for being in that cohort. I believe Kemi Badenoch cos I'm from Ilaje road Bariga

izzou:
[color=royalblue]He thinks some of us have amnesia

I was reading his comments when the case was on, and i couldn't help but laugh

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Theflint1:
And is it possible your middleclass experience was different from her middleclass experience?

Like two families fit dey, similar income bracket...famA priortizes going to the best schools, which means things like home entertainment and some other amenities take back burner, and famB chooses to send kids to okay schools, and things like PS, colored TV and cable is their norm.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]No, it doesn't

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OasisX:


.....show proof nah. Imagine person don comot this Platform, na una go dey rewrite history. LOL!

You lied, own it with full chest bruh.