Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, stated in a Sunday interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that she is unable to pass on her Nigerian citizenship to her children due to her gender.
Her comment arose during a discussion about immigration policies and the distinctions between Britain and countries like Nigeria.
“It’s virtually impossible, for example, to get Nigerian citizenship.
“I have that citizenship by virtue of my parents, I can’t give it to my children because I’m a woman.”
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She utilized this personal example to underscore what she perceived as an imbalance in immigration systems, pointing out that many Nigerians benefit from the UK’s comparatively more lenient processes.
“Yet loads of Nigerians come to the UK and stay for a relatively free period of time, acquire British citizenship. We need to stop being naive.
“That is why under my leadership, we now have policies to make it harder to just get British citizenship. It has been too easy,” she said.
When questioned about supporting a Nigerian immigrant’s attempt to establish a “mini-Nigeria” in the UK for cultural integration, Badenoch firmly dismissed the idea.
“That is not right. Nigerians would not tolerate that”.
“That’s not something that many countries would accept.
“There are many people who come to our country, to the UK, who do things that would not be acceptable in their countries,” she said.
Born in the UK to Nigerian parents, Badenoch spent part of her childhood in Lagos.
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