Political activist Aisha Yesufu has asked British-Nigerian politician Kemi Badenoch to move on from her fixation on Nigeria.
Badenoch, the leader of the UK Conservative Party, has made controversial, if not demeaning, comments about Nigeria that have sharply divided opinions.
Even Vice President Kashim Shettima accused her of denigrating the country and recommended she drop her Nigerian name, Kemi if she so wished.
In a recent interview, a British journalist asked Badenoch if she trusted the British police. Badenoch responded, “I do. My experience with the Nigeria Police was very negative. Coming to the UK, my experience with the British Police was very positive.“
She claimed that Nigerian police officers stole her brother’s shoe and watch but did not provide further details.
Aisha Yesufu reposted a clip of the interview on X (formerly Twitter) and criticized Badenoch for bringing up Nigeria in her response.
“Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch should grow up and move on! Context is everything! She was asked if she trusts the British police. How is what happened with Nigerian police a reason for her to know if she will trust the British police or not? What also brought in our poverty?” Yesufu questioned.
Yesufu added, “If the UK doesn’t provide an enabling environment for people to loot Nigeria’s wealth and take it there, ‘poor’ and ‘Nigeria’ will not be in the same sentence.
“So because the bar is low in Nigeria, it doesn’t mean she should lower the bar for their police there! She should not use her Nigerian poverty mentality to lower the bar there!“
Yesufu also called on the Nigeria Police Force to examine the disgrace they’re bringing to the rest of the country.
“@PoliceNG, you see your life? Always disgracing us up and down!” she said.
Kemi Badenoch, born in Wimbledon, UK, and raised in Nigeria, has often spoken about her experiences growing up in Nigeria.
She has described Nigeria as a country plagued by corruption and insecurity.
While Badenoch may be speaking the hard, inconvenient truth, the Nigerian presidency criticized her for being “tactless.”
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