The leader of the United Kingdom Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has recounted her secondary school experience at the Federal Government Girls College (FGGC) Sagamu, Ogun State.
In a video clip of an interview on social media, the Nigerian-born British politician described the school as a prison.
She recalled having to cut the grass and wash the toilet with no running water.
According to her, āI went to a secondary school, it was called a federal government girlsā school in a place called Sagamu.
āAnd that was like being in prison when I tell the stories about using a machete and having to fetch buckets of water.
āAnd that was the first time that I was away from home, away from my family. Itās 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.
āThe machete was for cutting the grass. Well, because who else is going to cut the grass ?
āThis is a federal school where, this old grammar school system sort of fading out, and everyone who passed an exam and got a certain grade, got to go to a federal school.
āAnd this was more socialism. So they sprinkled people around. They didnāt want one school getting all the best results. They would mix people about so you could end up getting sent thousands of miles away to a boarding school, you know, at the extreme end of the country.
āSo I was lucky. I didnāt get sent too far away, but I was very far from home. Iād never been away from home before, and it was like Lord of the Flies, you know, the students were in control.
āWe needed to look after the school grounds. So using a machete, having to clean toilets with no running water. Iām not going to go into the description of that.ā
Badenoch has been relentless about her anti-Nigeria rhetoric, unleashing them at every given opportunity. This is happening years after expressing gratitude to Nigerians resident in the UK who were very supportive of her political ambition.
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