Femi Fani-Kayode, Kemi Badenoch’s Village Square Quarrel: The Beef Between Two London Brought Up Yoruba Politicians And Their Views On Homeland Nigeria
The Oasis Reporters
November 12, 2024
When the female Yoruba-Nigerian born British politician who now proudly leads the Conservative Party in the UK woke up one morning and declared her views about the quest for reparations in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode, a Nigerian born but British educated politician looked across the Atlantic Ocean with baleful eyes and declared that Nigerians in homeland Africa must open their eyes, and if Badenoch’s Nigerian cheerleaders refuse to , it’s their fault!
Femi Fani-Kayode is living the flamboyant life in Nigeria and obviously doesn’t want to go to Great Britain again. He has had their upper class education and he’s done! Buhari’s government once seized his international passport, therefore he stayed at home by fire by force, eating home grown delicacies like Amala and gbegiri, served by a coterie of servants, some who had been with him for decades, receiving salaries without issues and even marrying under the servants quarters in his expansive mansion.
Talk about the lives of upper class Lords where the power generators can run 24/7 on expensive petrol that is now above 1000 naira per liter.
On the other hand, Kemi Badenoch may have lived with her grandparents or knew how they lived, or perhaps how her grandparents friends lived in the Niger Delta with bush lanterns and without adequate clean drinking water.
So she fled to the UK. Many more Nigerians are still fleeing. Some are fleeing unending banditry, kidnapping of school girls with many being sold into sex slavery or forced into child marriages.
Enough of this hell hole, Kemi said and hissed.
Sadly, she left the lack of adequate provision of electricity, a lack of good roads, functional education etc due to the monumental incompetence of a gross number of Nigerian politicians who live large while the citizenry languish in penury.
And amazingly, she rose to become the leader of the Conservative Party in the UK. She can be Prime Minister of the UK anytime you know.
But in homeland Nigeria, let a Yoruba man with an Igbo mother try to be Governor of Yoruba speaking cosmopolitan Lagos, and the area boys could run him out of town with ‘juju’, violence online or offline as well as other fetish objects.
So what Kemi Badenoch said became to Femi Fani-Kayode as “Living Hell”.
Femi Fani-Kayode further went on to describe the head of the Conservative Party in the UK, Kemi Badenoch as someone who “also stands against multiculturalism even though she is the Leader of the Opposition in a multicultural, 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 barrenes 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”.
The flamboyant Nigerian politician also goes on to call her views, “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 finishes using her they will flush her down the toilet like the turd that she is.
She deserves no better”.
Funny really. Most Nigerian toilets suffer for lack of water to flush with. Nigeria has more volumes of water underground. But selfish and lack of savviness in Nigerian politicians makes them astoundingly incompetent to bring the water to the surface for people to drink or wash with. Flushing toilets is a big luxury in most Nigerian homes.
Nelson Odume of Rhodes University and Andrew Slaughter of University of Saskatchewan wrote that Nigeria is so rich in water resources that many of its 36 states are named after rivers. In addition to surface water found in nearly every part of the country, there’s also plenty stored in the ground. The country has 215 cubic kilometres a year of available surface water. This is a lot higher than many African countries, particularly those in the southern and northern regions of the continent. South Africa, for example, has about 49 cubic kilometres a year.
One would imagine that Nigerians have plenty of water to drink.
But this isn’t the case. In fact, only 19% of Nigeria’s population has access to safe drinking water. Although 67% of people have basic water supply, access is uneven. In cities, 82% of people have a basic supply. In rural areas, only 54% do.
Wealth also distorts access. About 80% of wealthy Nigerians have access to at least a basic water supply, in comparison to only 48% of poor Nigerians.
The lack of accessible, reliable and safe drinking water, together with poor sanitation and hygiene, is estimated to cost Nigeria about USD$1.3 billion in access time, loss due to premature death, productive time lost and health care costs.
Further reading: [ https://www.theoasisreporters.com/how-nigeria-is-wasting-its-rich-water-resources/ ]
But the British have adequate water to flush with. Nigerian taps are dry. Unless an individual has millions to drill boreholes in order to get some. Something that is taken for granted in the UK. Politicians work hard to make life easy for their citizens there. In Nigeria, where do politicians leave us ?
High and dry.
Reason why the beef between Femi Fani-Kayode is not drawing enough cheers to his side, beyond the sound and fury.
Ride on, Kemi Badenoch. You may be right or wrong. Our main issues in Nigeria are basically the cost of living crisis and insecurity that is emptying more of our people to migrate abroad. Just anywhere. Our ministers come and go, yet things remain either the same or they get worse.
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is the Sadaukin Shinkafi, a former Minister of Aviation and a former Minister of Culture and Tourism of Nigeria.
Greg Abolo
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