Pastor Adegboyega counters Badenoch, sats 78,000 bags, phones were snatched in UK

Pastor Adegboyega

However, speaking on Monday’s edition of Channels TV’s ‘Politics Today’, Pastor Adegboyeg pointed out that such ills were not peculiar to Nigeria.

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.

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“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,” Adegboyega countered Badenoch.

“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.

“When SPAC Nation began, we started sending people to Harvard, Cambridge and also have the highest number in Imperial College,” he added.