The United Kingdom Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, has spoken about her secondary school experience at the Federal Government Girls College (FGGC) Sagamu, Ogun State.<\/h2>\n
In a video clip of an interview on social media, the British politician described the school as a prison.<\/p>\n
According to her, she had to cut the grass and wash the toilet with no running water.<\/p>\n
She said, \u201cI went to a secondary school, it was called a federal government girls\u2019 school in a place called Sagamu.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAnd that was like being in prison when I tell the stories about using a machete and having to fetch buckets of water.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAnd that was the first time that I was away from home, away from my family. It\u2019s a federal boarding school. And it was a dormitory with about 150 [girls] I think, 20 to 30 in a room. And there were, you know, six rooms.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe machete was for cutting the grass. Well, because who else is going to cut the grass?<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis is a federal school where, this old grammar school system sort of fading out, and everyone who passed an exam and got a certain grade, got to go to a federal school.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAnd this was more socialism. So they sprinkled people around. They didn\u2019t want one school getting all the best results. They would mix people about so you could end up getting sent thousands of miles away to a boarding school, you know, at the extreme end of the country.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSo I was lucky. I didn\u2019t get sent too far away, but I was very far from home. I\u2019d never been away from home before, and it was like Lord of the Flies, you know, the students were in control.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe needed to look after the school grounds. So using a machete, having to clean toilets with no running water. I\u2019m not going to go into the description of that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n