Crimes of Kemi Badenoch Against Nigeria

Written by Bar Imo Imo

KEMI Badenoch, we all know or we are just knowing, is the current Leader of the Conservative Party, the main opposition party in Britain. That makes her an election away to becoming that country's Prime Minister.

Nigeria is her country of birth. Her ethnic origin, incountry is Yoruba. Britain is her country of choice and residence. You can check up on her bio from any reputable tabloid.

As we speak, the lady has been trending in the Western world for good reasons but despised in Nigeria for reasons attributed to her disapproving views of her country of birth. Where the western world gives her nods, many Nigerians give her knocks.

Wherefore her sins against her native country?

By accident or design she became a British citizen legally in her innocence at childhood, having left Nigeria at age six. That's not a crime.

She must have received quality education through hard work, merit, state backups and parental guidance in an environment she didn't have to bribe or trade her feminity for marks and upgrades from school administrators. An environment where leaders protect truths and preserve national ethos. Is that a Mens Rea?

She's gotten used to such yardsticks as the ideal educational and sociopolitical templates. Now she wishes the systems in her nativeland were be run similarly. Is that criminal?

Some Nigerians say she's absolved of any crime against Nigeria but indicted for ignorance about Nigeria. Let's not be silly here. She can't aspire to lead Britain without knowing Nigeria, her former colony even in the dark.

The lady prefers to be known and identified as Yoruba, not Nigerian. And definitely not in affinity with the Northern Nigerians. That means she's prouder of her nuclear race than Nigeria. But she's not denied her Nigerianess but detests the northern region for its self condoning religious, economic and social volatility. Is any of us comfortable with BH and its variants,the banditry and the poverty in that region? Where's the denigration of any region or Nigeria here in her discomfiture?

Because she's proudly Yoruba, she maintains her originality. African torso, glowing dark chocolate skin, fairly thick lips and hairdos. All these in a country where she could have had the best aesthetics and plastic surgeons jostling to etch her torso and shape her yansh English, bleach and dye her skin Welch, reconstruct her lips Scottish and graft her hair blonde! Are these the traits of someone who has renounced her roots? Hell, no.

Many of our wives, daughters and girl friends unlike Kemi have undergone expensive,radical and ludicrous medical procedures to transform into Caucasians, some under the sponsorship of the state,its members and cronies. Can such ladies rightly be said to be better examples of Nigerianess than Kemi?

And to think that my cerebral and transformative Vice President (his Borno guber stint on my mind) could be so irked to overlap into the duty posts of his Ministers of Information, National Orientation, Foreign Affairs including the media team (some say it's bloated) at the Presidency to counter Kemi is a mismatch.

And to have challenged her to drop her Yoruba nomenclature of Kemi if she so wished is inelegant. That she's still Kemi and not Kimberly should excite all Nigerians.

For God's sake Kemi isn't his diplomatic equivalent. She's not the British Prime Minister or subordinate. She's not even a British Cabinet member. She could be a Peter Obi, if PO came to terms with being the Leader of Nigeria's LP or an Atiku Abubakar if AA led an unfragmented PDP.

Where the Onanugas and Bwalas have feared to to tread, folks like Femi Fani-Kayode, Reno Omokri, etc have waltzed in, denigrating Kemi. This isn't because they haven't lived and schooled in Britain and Western nations to have compared the leadership qualities in those climes with that of our successive governments.

Their onslaughts against her isn't because Kemi is all lies and disdainful.

It is because Kemi Bademoch was brutally too frank and honest for the comfort the Nigerian establishment. Feathers have been ruffled. For our collective good, I believe.

And if those men of power and means surrounding President Tinubu, mean well for him and Nigeria, PBAT should be allowed to take scathing remarks by the Kemis and Davidos as wake up calls for him to show the world that he can lead Nigeria differently and excellently.

It will be a thing of joy to behold an encounter between President Tinubu and Kemi Bademoch sometime in the future, on which occasion the former would brandish a rebranded Nigeria before her, telling her in Yoruba "Kemi, see, I have Renewed Hope in Nigeria and turned her into the greatest black country in the world." Not by population only.

Bar Imo Imo can be reached by email;

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