A British Member of European Parliament, Godfrey Bloom, sponsored by the United Kingdom Independent Party (Ukip), a far right political party in Britain, is currently under fire for referring to countries receiving financial aid from the United Kingdom as ‘bongo bongo land’.

The coalition government of the United Kingdom is committed to giving a certain percentage of UK’s GDP as foreign aid to less developed countries. Somalia, Nigeria and Pakistan are the biggest recipient of British aid.

Mr. Bloom, who represents the English constituency of Yorkshire and Humberside at the European Parliament, was caught on tape at a public meeting last month saying: “How we can possibly be giving a billion pounds a month when we’re in this sort of debt to bongo bongo land is completely beyond me”.

The phrase ‘Bongo Bongo Land’ has been notorious since Alan Clarke, then a conservative party minister, used it to refer to Africa in 1985 in an official meeting.

After giving a reluctant apology, which he said was only given after his party’s senior figures insisted on an apology he went on to boast that that he has succeeded in drawing public attention to what he called the “immorality” of spending “£1bn per month” on overseas aid during an economic crisis.

He went on to claim that he was standing up for “ordinary people at the pub, the cricket club, the rugby club, the sort of people who remain completely unrepresented under the political system that we have.”

This is not the first time the 63-yr-old politician would be courting controversy with his discriminatory comments about other people. This was what he said to journalists shortly after being appointed to the European Parliament’s women’s rights committee: “No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.”



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Serves our leaders right

spongeback: Serves our leaders right

say wah?? D guy jes insulted ur continent and u r attacking our leaderz. Oh C'mon

See the man's face sef... Anyway, I don't blame him sha.
Bongo Bongo land indeed. Oh! My country.

We should be the ones assisting these english folks financially and not the other way round. I dnt blame him for calling us "bongo bongo" land, our leaders caused it. Cos with our oil wealth we can feed England. Are they as rich as us Mtsceuwwww

i will like to know the meaning of 'bongo-bongo' first. if it is what i think, then the man is right!

Omar Bongo is a Gabonese leader who used aid money given to his country to live an opulent lifestyle.

careytommy: i will like to know the meaning of 'bongo-bongo' first. if it is what i think, then the man is right!

you read the post commented and still want to know the meaning ..

when the meaning was visibly expressed in the post..

Guy, even those wey go night school no dey f-up like dis

Like seriously are we even getting any aids or do we even need any aids from Britain?
If it is true that britain is giving financial aids to Nigeria then they are the number 1 sponsor of corruption in Nigeria.
All we need from Britain is for them to keep that damn visa office open and get more ink for the visa granted stamps.

kenny1795: say wah?? D guy jes insulted ur continent and u r attacking our leaderz. Oh C'mon

what else is 2 be said on d issue but........................

I think the reason he said that is because of the prposed expenditure of one billion pounds by Nigerian govt to join the space race.How can a right thinking Leaders of a nation that still depends partly on aids whose most of its citizen are jobless,homeless,hopeless be spending such amount on worthless venture that will not yield much result.We even deserve to be called worst names.

If not for corruption, we should be the one giving aid to European and America countries.
Let's admit it.Africa leaders are corrupt sha.

He looks like a bongo-bongo.

The FRAUD money doesn't ever leave England in the first place. Its just an avenue for stealing. They know how to share the money. Nigeria doesn't receive anything.

On one hand,I think the name serves African leaders,who are behaving like paupers, right!

On the other hand,I think he took the name calling over the roof! He seems to have racism flowing in his blood!

I think he was referring to africa as a whole.
Who cares anyway?
You won't catch me dead in the UK.

£1B a month is not even enough compensation for the pillage, economic Extortion,slavery and stealing of natural reasources they brought on Africa durring the industrial revolution of the 20tth century.

I don't blame him. I blame our government for insulting us by collecting aid from a poor country as Britain. They shoiuild shove their aid money up their exterior.

But much of Nigeria's leaders and its people behave like people in a Bongo bongo land - a land of wild antelopes. Nigerians know they do not yet have a true nation in the real sense of the word. But addiction to crude oil restrains them from gathering to devise a system of government acceptable to the federating groups of Nigeria. Some groups would rather chose to kill others or deport others in their domains to pursue their group's goal.

Point of correction!

British aid money only goes to northern Nigeria. Southern Nigeria hardly benefits.

ITbomb: Like seriously are we even getting any aids or do we even need any aids from Britain?
If it is true that britain is giving financial aids to Nigeria then they are the number 1 sponsor of corruption in Nigeria.
All we need from Britain is for them to keep that damn visa office open and get more ink for the visa granted stamps.

That is why he is calling you and your mama na papa BONGO BONGO people. Very soon he go add FOOLS to that

ckkris: The FRAUD money doesn't ever leave England in the first place. Its just an avenue for stealing. They know how to share the money. Nigeria doesn't receive anything.

And if to say na true, than we get BONGO BONGO brains

i'm not surprise ukip&bnp are racist scum

In due time they'll come to us cap in hand!