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Kemi Badenoch’s Lies About Nigeria

By Femi Fani-Kayode

THISday Newspapers


“I don’t want this country to turn into the one I ran away from”- Kemi Badenoch MP.

The Right Honourable Kemi Badenoch MP, former Minister of Women and Equalities of the United Kingdom and the newly-elected leader of the British Conservative party deserves to be tarred and feathered for the sort of things she says about Nigeria.

Apart from her insulting categorisations about Northern Nigerian Muslims, which I shall come to later in this contribution, this woman had the impudence to describe Nigeria, her country of origin, as a “living hell”, a place where she had to “walk one mile to get running water” and a country where “lizards run out of the taps!”

She constantly launches heavy salvos against the Nigerian people and our ruling elites including politicians, legislators, members of the judiciary and those that are in the private sector calling us thieves and labelling us as being corrupt and inept.

She snubbed the federal government on two occasions by ignoring them when they attempted to reach out to her through Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on the Diaspora, which provoked the latter to say that she was yet “to find the Nigerianess in her”.

As far as Kemi Badenoch is concerned Nigeria is a land of demons whilst the UK is a nation of angels.

She forgets that the country that she lives in has a long history of corruption, looting and barbarism and that London remains the world’s capital for money laundering.

Again, unlike the UK, Nigeria is not supporting the holocaust in Gaza and is not complicit in the genocide that has been unleashed on the Palestinians.

Sadly some of our people have not only applauded her for her offensive sentiments but have also become her loudest cheerleaders.

I suspect that those that do this may well be suffering from a disease known as “Stockholm syndrome”.

This affliction causes its victims to fall in love with their oppressors.

It compels them to cultivate an affection for those who seek to place them in servitude and who treat them with contempt.

The victims of this malaise are masochists whilst Badenoch herself is the female version of Marquis De Sade.

Her Nigerian cheerleaders have a chip on their shoulder. They are unpatriotic and have no honour. No matter how much she pisses on the graves of our heroes past and defecates on our flag they continue to worship her.

This is pitiful. It is a reflection of their malevolent disposition towards their own country and their low self-esteem.

We may have issues as a nation but we must never support those that denigrate our country for political gain.

Kemi sold her soul to the right wing of the British Tory party and sought to put to shame the land of her forefathers just to become their leader. Nothing can be more despicable than that. I have seen many attempts to rationalise her insolence and none make any sense.

Loving those that hate you and consider you to not only be their inferior but also sub-human, in my view, is not a virtue but a vice.

The demonisation of our country should not be a pre-requisite to winning a leadership contest of a political party in a foreign land and if it is one cannot expect any self-respecting Nigerian to applaud it.

Her victory in the contest for the leadership of the UK’s Conservative party does not in any way ameliorate my disgust and repugnance for her or the foul stench that trails her wherever she goes.

She reminds me of the creature that the black American leader, Malcom X, described as “a house n*gger”.

In order to comprehend her self-loathing and reprehensible mind-set I urge those that are interested to read the black French writer Franz Fanon’s book titled “Black Skin, White Mask”. The author had the likes of Badenoch in mind when he compiled this insightful masterpiece.

Kemi is a vile, cunning, dangerous and willing tool of the colonialists, neo-colonialists and imperialists and she is everything that any patriotic Nigerian and every Pan Africanist should despise.

Unless and until she purges herself of her contempt I shall continue to regard her in the same light as William Shakespeare’s character Brutus whose treachery and betrayal was heart-wrenching and whose cut was “the deepest of all”.

Again she reminds me of the character known as Richard Rich in William Bolt’s famous play titled ‘A Man For All Seasons’ who betrayed England’s most famous martyr Sir Thomas Moore and sent him to the gallows with his false testimony and lies in return for a title and landed property in the province of Wales!

It is in the same way that Kemi has betrayed, misrepresented and murdered Nigeria in return for her position as Leader of the Opposition in the UK.

Anyone that calls my country “hell on earth” is fair game and this is especially if that person does so in order to curry favour with members of her political party and win their support.

Such a person is nothing but a specious liar, an unconscionable opportunist, a bigoted racist and a cheap political hustler who will do or say anything, including selling her own people down the river, for political power.

Institutional racism is real in the UK and the worst type of racist is a self-hating black African who feels the need to rubbish his heritage, who believes that he must disparage the land of his forefathers and who consistently reinforces the negative stereotyping of Africa and Africans in order to be accepted into the highest echelons of the British political class.

The Bible asks, “what profiteth a man to lose his soul in order to gain the world”. I ask, what profiteth a woman to lose her dignity and self-respect in return for the leadership of a political party in a distant land.

This is made worse by the fact that it is a political party whose star has dimmed, whose days of glory are over and which may not be back in power for the next ten years!

The truth is even if the Englanders proclaimed Kemi Badenoch as their Queen yours truly will continue to loathe her because she has contempt for my country.

250 million people live in Nigeria and she is not the dark, evil, beast-infested forest and wild jungle that Badenoch portrays her to be.

She is not filled with ignorant, grass skirt-wearing, ape-looking, monkey-sounding, primitive barbarians and heinous cannibals that she would have others believe. We are not a land of sub-human creatures that have no decency, no decorum, no knowledge, no heritage and no history.

We are not uncivilised, we do not live in trees, we do not behave like animals and neither are we godless, unruly, ignorant or incompetent. Just like any other country, including the UK itself, we are not infallible and we have our own fair share of flaws and challenges.

Yet that does not diminish us and I am not constrained to feel any sense of elation when a person that has displayed such disdain for our people achieves anything simply because that person has her roots in my country or in my ethnic nationality.

The fact that Kemi is of Yoruba descent does not absolve her of her rancid bigotry and does not constrain me to give her a free pass.

To those from Yorubaland who say we must celebrate her despite her foibles because she is Yoruba I ask the following: must we support a Yoruba who hates her ancestry, heritage, values and culture and who sees and says nothing good in our history?

Must we endorse the acts and words of an individual who has denied us before the world, who has nothing good to say about us and who has insulted and denigrated our forefathers?

Surely doing so would be the height of clannish and cultic behaviour and an inglorious display of a crude and primitive disposition.

We are far bigger and better than that. Even if she was a mass murderer those that think like that would still hail her because she is Yoruba. This surely is not our way and neither does it bring honour to our name.

We must judge her on what she says and does and not on the basis of her tribe, gender, nationality, religious faith or the color of her skin. Outside of that it says a lot about the values of the British Conservative Party when a vainglorious, dangerously ambitious, self-deprecating, Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima-like figure could be elected as their leader.

This is a far cry from the Conservative Party of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. I have little doubt that they both turned in their graves upon hearing about Badenoch’s ascension in the firm knowledge that their party had been handed a poisoned chalice.

Those misguided Nigerians that celebrate her simply because she is from our shores are hugging a snake that hates them with passion. Eventually she will turn around and bite them and they will curse the day that she was born.

The truth is that I fear for the plight of the Nigerian community in the UK in the unlikely event of her ever being elected Prime Minister. Permit me to end this contribution with the following.

In Kemi’s most graphic display of ignorance, mendacity, religious bigotry, tribalism and racism she said that she does not believe that Northern Nigerian Muslims should be allowed into the UK because they are, in her view, “Islamists”.

She went on to say that Northern Muslims support terror and that an example of this are the ugly events in Chibok, Northern Nigeria ten years ago when over two hundred schoolgirls were kidnapped!

She also said that Muslims that do not support Israel in its relentless ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and it’s genocidal acts in Gaza are “not welcome in the UK”.

The fact that she had to single out Nigeria and cast aspersions on the character of no less than 50% of our population describing them as “Islamists” and alluding to the malicious falsehood that they are terrorists speaks volumes. One is constrained to ask whether the sheer lunacy of this repugnant woman has any limits. On the quest for reparations for the slave trade Badenoch had the following to say.

“This is the past. We need to talk about the future. There are many countries now that want to use guilt to try and exploit the UK. They ask for reparations. I saw it as a Trade Minister. It’s not culture wars. I was at the WTO, I won’t name the Minister from another country and he was telling me that we needed to give up some of the things we were doing because of colonialism and because they needed time to develop. These arguments are a scam. Don’t fall for it. We need to make sure that we put this country first. We work well with our neighbours, we work with other countries but we have to look after ourselves too.”

Imagine this coming from a black African woman millions of who's ancestors were enslaved and shipped off to the West!

She is dumb, deaf and blind to the fact that those advocating for reparations rightly believe that the UK and the rest of the West should make up for the damage that they did through slavery. @Africa.Echo put it well when they posted the following on X.

“Germany and the rest of the West continue to provide financial recompense to Israel but Kemi Badenoch believes Africans do not deserve reparations for decades of colonialism and centuries of enslavement”.

If Kemi’s views about the quest for reparations does not open the eyes of Badenoch’s Nigerian cheerleaders nothing will.

She also stands against multi-culturalism even though she is the Leader of the Opposition in a multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-religious nation and she is married to a white English man. What a contradiction!

She says she believes that “not all cultures are equally valid” and from her divisive rhetoric it is clear that she also believes that not all races are equally valid either. An even greater contradiction is the fact that she is staunchly anti-immigration.

She asserts that “Britain must not be a sponge for migrants” forgetting that she is a first generation migrant and a beneficiary of the British immigration system that she now seeks to discredit.

These contradictions and asinine assertions betray a level of perfidy, deceit, intellectual bareness and scholarly ineptitude that beggars belief.

Another display of her crass ignorance is her assertion that Nigeria, a country that she was raised in, has been run by “socialist Governments”.

This is arrant nonsense. I guess her definition of “socialism” is anything that does not share her fascist, ultra-conservative, neo-colonialist and neo-imperialist views.

The irony of it all is that despite her pretense at being more English than the English and more conservative than Enoch Powell, by the time the British right-wing finish using her they will flush her down the toilet like the turd that she is.

She deserves no better.

• Chief Fani-Kayode, the Sadaukin Shinkafi.

Tellmeastory:
She reminds me of the creature that the black American leader, Malcom X, described as “a house n*gger”.

azadus18:
First time ,I will be reading something this long to the end on nairaland

Tellmeastory:
Kemi Badenoch, an ajebota born with a silver spoon in her mouth and lived on the island, whose dad is a doctor and mum a university lecturer, and who is a cousin of Former Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, went to UK and was telling them she lived in poverty in a rough neigbourhood, walked several miles to get water, and lizards where coming out of the taps.

In another interview with her white masters, she said she was hearing gun shots from armed robbers every night from her house, as they harassed her neighbours and she was always hiding under the bed ''wondering if her house would be next''.

Evil, lying witch. May your ancestors handle you.

Frigga13:
All this gibberish simply because KEMI snub Tinubu’s and his Yoruba government..

Said they will unleash articles up. Articles and write ups ..

Imagine Fani too… Kemi should brace up for his people ..
good thing is that she keeps snubbing them.. playing them their Yoruba game ..



E pain Yoruba no be small




This week alone … how many of this don reach front page

Haba !

Yoruba people should free this woman

The world already knows .. Tinubu’s Yoruba government has failed already.. no image laundering would change anything


Make Yoruba go deal with mc olumo and his new appointment


Haba!!!

Mindlog:
Dissertation on top Kemi matter?😂😂😂😂

BuhariAdvocate:
But why Nigerians most especially a failed politician like this op hate truths? I have listened to an interview granted to this woman and there is no lie in what she said about Nigeria.

Tellmeastory:
People like Kemi Badenoch and her white masters rely heavily on the LOW IQ of people like you, who, instead of seeing her behaviour for what it is - an assault on ALL of us regardless of ethnicity, see it as an attack on ''Yoruba people''.

Do people in Britain know who is Yoruba or Igbo or Hausa? Nope. All they know is 'NIGERIAN'.

So unless you do not regard yourself as a Nigerian, you SHOULD be feeling what Fani-Kayode is feeling.

Perhaps you should tell us where you are really from.

Frigga13:
You with HIGH IQ is being snub and trashed as a Yoruba man
Keep crying ..

Them go soon ban you for calling a moniker LOW IQ


MODS !!
Rule 2

Tellmeastory:
LOW IQ DUMB AND DUMBER, I am not a ''Yoruba man''.

In NIGERIA there are over 300 ethnic languages.

Does your LOW IQ school dropout head realise that?

psucc:
The epistle is long and a hungry man can never read through. From the opening paragraph one can see what she said that has forced FFK to write this.

But sadly, absolutely nothing in her view about Nigeria is false. That she paints the picture just as it is, devoid of the sugarcoats, doesn't make her unpatriotic. Of course, she doesn't owe her allegiance to Nigeria - being her ancestral home notwithstanding.

If FFK is ashamed that his "Sister, a blood-related" has no "respect" for Nigeria, he should ask those in authority to sit up. Even himself, as a former aviation Minister, what legacy did he left in that Industry?

lastkingsman:
FKK biro hit contractor. Person don pay am to write rubbish

Mindlog:
He and his likes are not writing to condemn the frightening sliding quality of life in Nigeria, the insensitive spending by government on what does not make economic sense to the people, how more Nigerians are being forced to go to bed hungry but na Kemi whey don choose her British side of identity, don become Nigeria problem and many here creating threads about her.

After she leaves that position she presently occupies, she will not be coming to Nigeria to beg for assistance or political positions. So Nigeria has gotten nothing on her and whatever she says about Nigeria no dey stress me.

Frigga13:
Calling her evil witch on top Wetin?
Say she no wan associated with una terrorist government..

Why the pain ?

You know her personally or her ancestors?

Nigerians .. if Yoruba can dea with their own like this … walahi those endbaadgovernment kids were deliberately kept to teach Nigerians a lesson ..

This people are mean..

Imagine on top politics ..

Tinubu knows what’s he doing to Nigerians citizens. He’s dealing with Nigerians the Yoruba way

Godfullsam:
This is to tell you that yorubas can go all out to reply anyone that will rubbish Nigeria even though the person is their tribe.
Even this current balablu government, you cannot tell me there is any tribe that criticise tinubu more than the yorubas. Yet you people still criticise the entire Yoruba tribe for tinubu matter despite the obvious fact that only about 58% yorubas voted for him.

Come 2027, many of us will still not vote for him and weather him wins or not, we will applaud his good deeds and criticise him were necessary. But you see that your Pandora candidate who was criticised by you people when he was a governor, by virtue of the deep hatred you people have for the yorubas, God will not make him the president of the federal republic of Nigeria.

I am sure people like you will still criticise the yorubas if no yorubas is condemning this woman's action.

Tellmeastory:
ANOTHER WORTHLESS POST FROM ANOTHER TRAITOR AND SUPPORTER OF LIES.

That Nigeria is a developing country is not a license for any satanic person like you or Badenoch to CONCOCT LIES AND NEGATIVE EXAGGERATIONS IN ORDER TO BESMIRCH THE COUNTRY, just to gain political favours in a foreign country.

This same girl rose to the where she is by clamouring for funds and support from the Nigerian community in the UK. She solicited the Nigerian community extensively, from at least 2010 and was well-supported by them.

And what do they get in return?

THIS?

Frigga13:
Story

Yoruba wrote her and she ignored them… after Yoruba celebrate her ..

See no one is a fool outside Nigeria

Tinubu’s Yoruba government failed and it’s evil.. no one want to associate with him

As for your gibberish

We all now una dey attack her because she no gree align with una

Why be say na only Yoruba dey attack her

Wake up

We know be all Yoruba for this forum

Tellmeastory:
Kemi Badenoch’s Lies About Nigeria

By Femi Fani-Kayode

THISday Newspapers


“I don’t want this country to turn into the one I ran away from”- Kemi Badenoch MP.

The h MP, former Minister of Women and Equalities of the United Kingdom and the newly-elected leader of the British Conservative party deserves to be tarred and feathered for the sort of things she says about Nigeria.

Apart from her insulting categorisations about Northern Nigerian Muslims, which I shall come to later in this contribution, this woman had the impudence to describe Nigeria, her country of origin, as a “living hell”, a place where she had to “walk one mile to get running water” and a country where “lizards run out of the taps!”

She constantly launches heavy salvos against the Nigerian people and our ruling elites including politicians, legislators, members of the judiciary and those that are in the private sector calling us thieves and labelling us as being corrupt and inept.

She snubbed the federal government on two occasions by ignoring them when they attempted to reach out to her through Mrs. mind-set I urge those that are interested to read the black French writer Franz Fanon’s book titled “Black Skin, White Mask”. The author had the likes of Badenoch in mind when he compiled this insightful masterpiece.

Kemi is a vile, cunning, dangerous and willing tool of the colonialists, neo-colonialists and imperialists and she is everything that any patriotic Nigerian and every Pan Africanist should despise.

Unless and until she purges herself of her contempt I shall continue to regard her in the same light as William Shakespeare’s character Brutus whose treachery and betrayal was heart-wrenching and whose cut was “the deepest of all”.

Again she reminds me of the character known as Richard Rich in William Bolt’s famous play titled ‘A Man For All Seasons’ who betrayed England’s most famous martyr Sir Thomas Moore and sent him to the gallows with his false testimony and lies in return for a title and landed property in the province of Wales!

It is in the same way that Kemi has betrayed, misrepresented and murdered Nigeria in return for her position as Leader of the Opposition in the UK.

Anyone that calls my country “hell on earth” is fair game and this is especially if that person does so in order to curry favour with members of her political party and win their support.

Such a person is nothing but a specious liar, an unconscionable opportunist, a bigoted racist and a cheap political hustler who will do or say anything, including selling her own people down the river, for political power.

Institutional racism is real in the UK and the worst type of racist is a self-hating black African who feels the need to rubbish his heritage, who believes that he must disparage the land of his forefathers and who consistently reinforces the negative stereotyping of Africa and Africans in order to be accepted into the highest echelons of the British political class.

The Bible asks, “what profiteth a man to lose his soul in order to gain the world”. I ask, what profiteth a woman to lose her dignity and self-respect in return for the leadership of a political party in a distant land.

This is made worse by the fact that it is a political party whose star has dimmed, whose days of glory are over and which may not be back in power for the next ten years!

The truth is even if the Englanders proclaimed Kemi Badenoch as their Queen yours truly will continue to loathe her because she has contempt for my country.

250 million people live in Nigeria and she is not the dark, evil, beast-infested forest and wild jungle that Badenoch portrays her to be.

She is not filled with ignorant, grass skirt-wearing, ape-looking, monkey-sounding, primitive barbarians and heinous cannibals that she would have others believe. We are not a land of sub-human creatures that have no decency, no decorum, no knowledge, no heritage and no history.

We are not uncivilised, we do not live in trees, we do not behave like animals and neither are we godless, unruly, ignorant or incompetent. Just like any other country, including the UK itself, we are not infallible and we have our own fair share of flaws and challenges.

Yet that does not diminish us and I am not constrained to feel any sense of elation when a person that has displayed such disdain for our people achieves anything simply because that person has her roots in my country or in my ethnic nationality.

The fact that Kemi is of Yoruba descent does not absolve her of her rancid bigotry and does not constrain me to give her a free pass.

To those from Yorubaland who say we must celebrate her despite her foibles because she is Yoruba I ask the following: must we support a Yoruba who hates her ancestry, heritage, values and culture and who sees and says nothing good in our history?

Must we endorse the acts and words of an individual who has denied us before the world, who has nothing good to say about us and who has insulted and denigrated our forefathers?

Surely doing so would be the height of clannish and cultic behaviour and an inglorious display of a crude and primitive disposition.

We are far bigger and better than that. Even if she was a mass murderer those that think like that would still hail her because she is Yoruba. This surely is not our way and neither does it bring honour to our name.

We must judge her on what she says and does and not on the basis of her tribe, gender, nationality, religious faith or the color of her skin. Outside of that it says a lot about the values of the British Conservative Party when a vainglorious, dangerously ambitious, self-deprecating, Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima-like figure could be elected as their leader.

This is a far cry from the Conservative Party of Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. I have little doubt that they both turned in their graves upon hearing about Badenoch’s ascension in the firm knowledge that their party had been handed a poisoned chalice.

Those misguided Nigerians that celebrate her simply because she is from our shores are hugging a snake that hates them with passion. Eventually she will turn around and bite them and they will curse the day that she was born.

The truth is that I fear for the plight of the Nigerian community in the UK in the unlikely event of her ever being elected Prime Minister. Permit me to end this contribution with the following.

In Kemi’s most graphic display of ignorance, mendacity, religious bigotry, tribalism and racism she said that she does not believe that Northern Nigerian Muslims should be allowed into the UK because they are, in her view, “Islamists”.

She went on to say that Northern Muslims support terror and that an example of this are the ugly events in Chibok, Northern Nigeria ten years ago when over two hundred schoolgirls were kidnapped!

She also said that Muslims that do not support Israel in its relentless ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and it’s genocidal acts in Gaza are “not welcome in the UK”.

The fact that she had to single out Nigeria and cast aspersions on the character of no less than 50% of our population describing them as “Islamists” and alluding to the malicious falsehood that they are terrorists speaks volumes. One is constrained to ask whether the sheer lunacy of this repugnant woman has any limits. On the quest for reparations for the slave trade Badenoch had the following to say.

“This is the past. We need to talk about the future. There are many countries now that want to use guilt to try and exploit the UK. They ask for reparations. I saw it as a Trade Minister. It’s not culture wars. I was at the WTO, I won’t name the Minister from another country and he was telling me that we needed to give up some of the things we were doing because of colonialism and because they needed time to develop. These arguments are a scam. Don’t fall for it. We need to make sure that we put this country first. We work well with our neighbours, we work with other countries but we have to look after ourselves too.”

Imagine this coming from a black African woman millions of who's ancestors were enslaved and shipped off to the West!

She is dumb, deaf and blind to the fact that those advocating for reparations rightly believe that the UK and the rest of the West should make up for the damage that they did through slavery. @Africa.Echo put it well when they posted the following on X.

“Germany and the rest of the West continue to provide financial recompense to Israel but Kemi Badenoch believes Africans do not deserve reparations for decades of colonialism and centuries of enslavement”.

If Kemi’s views about the quest for reparations does not open the eyes of Badenoch’s Nigerian cheerleaders nothing will.

She also stands against multi-culturalism even though she is the Leader of the Opposition in a multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-religious nation and she is married to a white English man. What a contradiction!

She says she believes that “not all cultures are equally valid” and from her divisive rhetoric it is clear that she also believes that not all races are equally valid either. An even greater contradiction is the fact that she is staunchly anti-immigration.

She asserts that “Britain must not be a sponge for migrants” forgetting that she is a first generation migrant and a beneficiary of the British immigration system that she now seeks to discredit.

These contradictions and asinine assertions betray a level of perfidy, deceit, intellectual bareness and scholarly ineptitude that beggars belief.

Another display of her crass ignorance is her assertion that Nigeria, a country that she was raised in, has been run by “socialist Governments”.

This is arrant nonsense. I guess her definition of “socialism” is anything that does not share her fascist, ultra-conservative, neo-colonialist and neo-imperialist views.

The irony of it all is that despite her pretense at being more English than the English and more conservative than Enoch Powell, by the time the British right-wing finish using her they will flush her down the toilet like the turd that she is.

She deserves no better.

• Chief Fani-Kayode, the Sadaukin Shinkafi.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/11/10/kemi-badenochs-lies-about-nigeria/

psucc:
It stands to be studied why some people are allergic to the truth. I mean why telling the truth is seen as being unpatriotic. Nigeria is where we are, despite the huge resources nature has buried under our feet, because we refused to accept the truth, tell same to our children, and stand up against those who have refused to tell same.

How long must we continue to be "developing"? I mean just how long, Sir? Nigeria and Argentina were facing economic crisis and a new government sworn in almost same time last year, 2023. But echoes from there indicates that their economy is improving whereas ours is worsening by the day and yet, it's Badenoch's opinion that's hampering Nigeria

IyanAtiEgusi:
Sad truth