Why my children can’t get Nigerian citizenship – Badenoch

Badenoch

…Under my leadership, we will make it harder to get British citizenship

Kemi Badenoch, leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, has said she is unable to transfer her Nigerian citizenship to her children because of her gender.

Badenoch made the comment in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, as she discussed immigration policies and the differences 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.”

She used the example to highlight what she described as the imbalance in immigration systems, noting that many Nigerians take advantage of the UK’s 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.