Kemi Badenoch, the current leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, has shared a personal experience highlighting a gender-based limitation in Nigeria’s nationality law. She revealed that despite being Nigerian by descent, she is unable to pass on her Nigerian citizenship to her children simply because she is a woman.
The revelation came during an in-depth conversation with CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria on his weekly program, where Kemi Badenoch discussed how immigration and citizenship laws differ significantly between countries like the United Kingdom and Nigeria.
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Kemi Badenoch.
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She used her own situation as an example to point out the discrepancies in global immigration frameworks. According to her, many Nigerians are able to acquire British citizenship relatively easily after living in the UK for a short time — something she believes has been exploited.
Kemi Badenoch explained:
“I have that citizenship by virtue of my parents, I can’t give it to my children because I’m a woman.
“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.”
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