Kemi Badenoch: ‘Nigeria is an oil producing country that has never had electricity’

Kemi Badenoch mocks Nigeria on electricity blackout

“Kemi Badenoch, leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, has criticised Nigeria’s long-standing electricity challenges, arguing that the country’s vast oil wealth has failed to translate into reliable power supply for citizens.
Speaking in an interview, Badenoch said her experiences growing up in Nigeria before relocating to the United Kingdom as a teenager had significantly shaped her political and economic views.
“My belief that we need to drill our oil and gas comes from growing up in a country Nigeria is an oil-producing country, never had electricity,” she said.
Badenoch argued that the presence of natural resources alone does not guarantee economic development, blaming policy failures for preventing countries from fully benefiting from their resource wealth.
“It is very easy to have resources under the ground, but stupid public policy means that you can’t use it,” she said.”