My secondary school experience was prison like – Kemi Badenoch

The leader of the British Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has again come under criticism after she admitted that attending a Federal Government Girls College, Sagamu, Ogun State, was a prison experience for her

Badenoch, who is known for denigrating Nigeria, despite being raised in Lagos State, the South-Western part of the country, again stated her distaste about what she described as “maltreatment and forced labour” when she shared her experience of being given a machete to cut grass and buckets to fetch water in the school.

Born in Wimbledon, London, in 1980, she spent most of her childhood in Nigeria and the United States before returning to the UK at age 16.

She is one of the last people to have received birthright citizenship in the UK before it was abolished by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1981.

Speaking in a recent viral clip, she noted that her experience was drawn from the ‘Lord of the Flies’ book, stressing that the students were in control.

“I went to a secondary school, it was called a Federal Government girls’ school in a place called Sagamu. And that was like being in prison when I tell the stories about using a machete and having to fetch buckets of water.

“And that was the first time that I was away from home, away from my family. It’s a federal boarding school. And it was a dormitory with about 150 (girls), I think, 20 to 30 in a room. And there were, you know, six rooms.

“The machete was for cutting the grass. Well, because who else is going to cut the grass?” she said.

This is not the only Badenoch smear remark about Nigeria and her people; however, in this report, PUNCH Online draws out some other comments that the popular Conservative Party’s leader has made about the country.

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