Two British men took turns trashing Nigeria and boasting to themselves that Nigeria doesn’t deserve a royal visit from Prince Harry and Meghan Markel.
They made the remarks during a podcast hosted by British journalist and presenter, Kevin O’Sullivan.
O’Sullivan, the presenter of TalkTV, said Nigeria doesn’t deserve endorsement from anyone, especially members of the royal family.
“The royal family doesn’t just go anywhere. These tours are planned years in advance and the countries that the royals honour with their visits are very carefully chosen.
“There’s no way our royal family would set foot in Nigeria, a country where female genital mutilation is rife; where women’s rights basically don’t exist; and where hundreds of kids are regularly kidnapped by extremist Islamic groups.
“This is not a country that should be endorsed by anyone certainly not our royal family and these two are naive in what they’re doing. They’re making this country look good when it doesn’t deserve it,” the journalist said.
O’Sullivan’s guest, royal correspondent and expert, Michael Cole also weighed in, calling Nigeria a dangerous destination.
“I couldn’t tell you the number of royal tours that I’ve been on and what you say is absolutely right. Nigeria, the foreign office and the American State Department both say it’s a dangerous destination, you must not go there. It vies with Johannesburg, South Africa to be the murder capital of the continent.
“In that country, there’s industrial scale, volumes of people who are ripping off people around the world, internet fraud, wholesale internet fraud, defrauding old ladies, stealing identities and none of that is ever prosecuted,” Cole said.
Cole, a former BBC journalist, also said he was puzzled by Prince Harry’s actions to visit Nigeria, stating that they defy common sense and reason.
The claim by the two men contradict history because in 2018 then Prince of Wales and now King of England, King Charles 111 visited Nigeria. He had previously visited Nigeria in 1990, 1999 and 2006
Nigeria is not a country that should be endorsed by anyone, our royal family members should never have set foot there — British media personalities crit+tize Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s over their recent trip to Nigeria pic.twitter.com/G4zctZH747
— Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) May 17, 2024
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