Pastor Tobi Adegboyega has knocked claims by UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch that Nigeria pushes its citizens into questionable behaviors. Badenoch, in an interview, accused the Nigerian Police of exploiting citizens.
Adegboyega, whose SPAC Nation faced allegations of mismanaging £1.87m, responded during a live TV appearance. He said,“I completely disagree with that statement. Between 2023 and 2024, about 78,000 bags and phones were snatched in London and the UK alone. There’s a very strong Nigerian black community in this nation.
For people like the leader of the opposition (party) you just mentioned to get to that position, they’ve been fighting on the street. There were funerals where kids were killed in the UK. They buried three kids from the same parents.
The pastor also criticized the lack of support for black communities in the UK, adding that while Nigeria has its challenges, they shouldn’t be used to tarnish its image unfairly.
“And we ask the question when the Nigerian community control these things in the UK, where are these voices? They have been fighting. The Windrush, which has to do with Jamaicans. People have been fighting before a black person or black immigrant can ascend to those seats.”
Continuing, Adegboyega reiterated that though things might be tough for his people back home in Nigeria, it doesn’t give anybody leeway to disparage the country in the manner Badenoch is going about it.
To further buttress his point, the embattled preacher noted that the number of young black men in UK prisons and mental homes far outweighs those in schools.
