By Femi Fani-Kayode
“I don’t want this country to turn into the one I ran away from”- Kemi Badenoch MP.
The Right Honorable 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-Eweka, President Bola Tinubu’s Special Advisor 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, the world’s most notorious sadist.
Her Nigerian cheerleaders have a chip on their shoulder. They are unpatriotic and have no honor.
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 heartreanching 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 unconcioble 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!
•Chief Fani-Kayode, the Sadaukin Shinkafi, is a former Minister of Aviation and former Minister of Culture and Tourism of Nigeria.
Check this story on Part 2
Kemi Badenoch’s living hell (2)