{"id":563,"date":"2025-07-21T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=563"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:31:16","slug":"your-children-are-nigerians-falana-corrects-badenoch-on-citizenship-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Your children are Nigerians, Falana corrects Badenoch on citizenship claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has faulted United Kingdom Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, over her claim that she cannot pass Nigerian citizenship to her children because of her gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During an interview with CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, Badenoch asserted that she cannot pass on her Nigerian citizenship to her children because of her gender. She suggested that it is easier for Nigerians to acquire British citizenship than for foreigners to become Nigerians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rema - Baby (Is it a Crime) [Official Video]\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MsZhYgo9MoA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She said, \u201cIt\u2019s virtually impossible, for example, to get Nigerian citizenship. I have that citizenship by virtue of my parents. I can\u2019t give it to my children because I\u2019m a woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYet loads of Nigerians come to the UK and stay for a relatively free period of time, acquire British citizenship. We need to stop being naive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reacting in a statement issued on Monday, Falana described Badenoch\u2019s statement as \u201ca display of utter ignorance\u201d and accused her of misinforming the British public to score political points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Falana said, \u201cIn her desperate attempt to impress the British electorate, Kemi Badenoch keeps running down Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cContrary to her misleading claim, her children are Nigerians because she is a Nigerian. Her assertion that she cannot give Nigerian citizenship to her children because she is a woman is not in consonance with Section 25(b) and (c) of the Nigerian Constitution which provides that every person born in Nigeria after independence, either of whose parents or grandparents is a citizen of Nigeria, or any person born outside Nigeria to a Nigerian parent, is a citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, by virtue of Section 42(2) of the Constitution, no citizen shall be subjected to any disability or deprivation merely by reason of circumstances of birth, gender, or class. Therefore, her two children are Nigerian citizens. The fact that she may not want them to claim it is irrelevant. For now, they are dual citizens of Britain and Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Falana also faulted her assertion that Nigerian citizenship is impossible for foreigners to obtain, noting that \u201cSections 26 and 27 of the Constitution clearly state that foreigners can acquire Nigerian citizenship through naturalisation or registration once they meet the legal conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He, however, acknowledged gaps in the law, saying that \u201cA woman married to a Nigerian man can be registered as a citizen, but the same privilege is not extended to a man married to a Nigerian woman, which reflects the patriarchal nature of the law. This should be urgently amended.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/your-children-are-nigerians-falana-corrects-badenoch-on-citizenship-claim\/\">(Punch)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has faulted United Kingdom Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, over her claim that she cannot pass Nigerian citizenship to her children because of her gender. During an interview with CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, Badenoch asserted that she cannot pass on her Nigerian citizenship to her children because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[727,545,725,726,424,85],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-citizenship","tag-conservative-party","tag-femi-falana","tag-kemi-badenoch","tag-nigeria","tag-united-kingdom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Your children are Nigerians, Falana corrects Badenoch on citizenship claim - Tona Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has faulted United Kingdom Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, over her claim that\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=563\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Your children are Nigerians, Falana corrects Badenoch on citizenship claim - 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