Embattled UK-based pastor, Tobi Adegboyega, has reacted to British Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch’s submissions on the state of affairs in Nigeria.
Henzodaily reports that Badenoch had recently accused the Nigerian police of robbing those who they were meant to protect.
She claimed that the Nigerian police had stolen her brother’s shoe and watch.
However, speaking on Monday’s edition of Channels TV’s ‘Politics Today’, Pastor Adegboyega, whose Church was recently shut down by the British Government over allegations of mismanaging £1.87m funds, stated that such ills were not peculiar to Nigeria
He pointed out that between 2023 and 2024, 78,000 bags and phones were snatched in the UK.
The clergyman argued that prisons and mental homes in the UK have more young black people than schools.
He said, “I completely disagree with that statement. Between 2023 and 2024, about 78,000 bags and phones were snatched in 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.
“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.
“So we cannot disassociate from where we are coming from.
“We are not denying the fact that our country has issues and we are also not as old as the advanced economies like Britain. But we cannot say things are all dark because it’s not true.
“We live on the street and know what is going on here. We know that prisons and mostly mental hospitals have more young black people than schools in the UK.”