A Green Party candidate pushing Britain to pay trillions of pounds in slavery reparations is descended from a slave-trading Nigerian royal family. The Mail has the story.

Antoinette Fernandez is the “reparations officer” for the party’s Global Majority Greens group which campaigns for “racial and environmental justice”.

However, she is also the daughter of a billionaire oil baron who was one of Africa’s richest men.

The local election candidate has campaigned for British taxpayers to pay reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and said that politicians who oppose it “show an appalling arrogance”.

Fernandez – who is standing for Zack Polanski’s party in London – is the daughter of the Queen Mother of Lagos and is given the title “princess” in the Nigerian press.

Her mother is Abiola Dosunmu and her father is Antonio Deinde Fernandez, a late business magnate and UN ambassador who is said to have made his fortune in oil, gas and mining and had a reported net worth of $8.7 billion (£6.5 billion) when he died in 2015.

Through her mother, the Green politician is a descendant of the Obas (kings) of Lagos, some of whom historians describe as “major” slave traders that made “lucrative commissions from slave deals”.

One of Fernandez’s ancient relatives personally owned 1,400 slaves and another even brought back slaves that had been sent to Brazil to build houses in Lagos, according to one historian.

The campaigner’s family accrued wealth through the slave trade which they used to purchase “velvet clothes, royal umbrellas, hats and stylish robes”, the account adds.

On Monday the Conservatives and Reform UK rounded on Ms Fernandez, branding her the “ultimate hypocrite” for demanding hard-up Britons shell out for reparations.

But the Green Party said that reporting Fernandez’s lineage is “racist” and a “bad-faith attempt to undermine the case for reparative justice”.

Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807 and then spent millions of pounds – billions in today’s money – and thousands of sailors’ lives putting an end to the practice worldwide.

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