Kemi Badenoch, leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, has described her experience at the Federal Government Girls College (FGGC) in Sagamu, Ogun State, as “prison-like.”
In a recent interview clip shared on social media, Badenoch reflected on the harsh conditions she endured during her time at the boarding school.
She recounted having to cut grass with a machete and clean toilets without access to running water.
“I went to a secondary school called a federal government girls school in a place called Sagamu,” she said. “It was like being in prison. I tell stories about using a machete and fetching buckets of water.”
She described it as her first time living away from home, recalling the overcrowded dormitories where around 150 girls were packed into six rooms, each holding 20 to 30 students. According to her, the atmosphere felt chaotic and unstructured.
“It was like Lord of the Flies the students were essentially in charge. We had to maintain the school grounds ourselves. Cleaning toilets without running water… I won’t even go into what that was like,” she added.
Badenoch also spoke about the federal school system’s goal at the time: to promote national unity by admitting students from different regions of Nigeria, often placing them far from home.
The British lawmaker, who has been openly critical of Nigeria in recent years, recently stated that she no longer identifies with the country of her birth.
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