Caught: Nigerian Mum Uses Friend’s ID to Get Free NHS Treatment & UK Citizenship for Baby
The plans of a pregnant Nigerian woman to use the NHS as an ‘International Health Service’ to deliver her baby and subsequently, have the child declared a British citizen reached a dead end as she currently faces fraud charges.
London Evening Standard reports;
Oluwaseun Adenubi, 30, used the passport of her friend, 32-year-old Rita Ogunkunle, to obtain free care. After the delivery, the friend and her boyfriend Michael Adebambo, 46, registered the baby as theirs.
However, staff at Farnborough’s Princess Royal University Hospital realised the medical records of the genuine Ogunkunle, who had received acne treatment there, conflicted with the pregnant patient claiming to be her.
“The probation service think this is a plot to use the ‘International Health Service’ and then take further advantage — the residency that comes with that and everything else,” said Croydon crown court Judge John Tanzer.
Adenubi, who was granted a family visit visa which allows her to stay in the UK for up to six months, pleaded guilty to fraud against the hospital between April and July last year.
Ogunkunle and Adebambo, both of Orpington, pleaded guilty to wilfully giving false information about the registration of a birth by claiming to be the parents of Moses Adenubi, at Bromley Civic Centre.
The couple have now fallen out with Adenubi, who claims she found Ogunkunle’s passport on a bench. Ogunkunle said it was snatched from her home and used behind her back.
“The probation service are there to report what they have been told and they say they don’t believe a word of it and neither do I,” added the judge. Prosecutor Alexandra Bushell told the court: “Maybe there was a motivation to secure the nationality of the child as a British citizen and free NHS treatment. After the baby was born in June, staff realised something was not right because Ogunkunle has severe scarring, which the baby’s mother did not have, and there were two different blood types for the same patient.”
Ogunkunle was arrested in August and claimed Adenubi took her passport after moving into her spare room.
“She admitted falsely registering the birth of the baby and said she had been introduced to Adenubi by a friend of her mother’s and took pity on her because she was pregnant and had no friends,” added the prosecutor. “She told police she was angry at Adenubi using her identity and tried to beat her to it by registering the child.”
Miss Bushell went on: “[Adebambo] said his girlfriend asked him to go to the register office to register a birth and said she told him she did not want another woman to use her identity. He said he did it out of love for his girlfriend and was very remorseful. [Adenubi] claimed she was fleeing a violent partner in Nigeria and claimed to have no family here and no contact with her family in Nigeria. She said she arrived with nowhere to go and met a Nigerian man at the airport and others via a church, but had no details of those she stayed with. She claimed to have found Ogunkunle’s passport on a bench and only used it to get free medical services.”
All three were bailed until a date to be fixed.
Hmmmmm
Sad sad!! See what people go tru to not having their kids brand a Nigerian. Chie Chineke
Hnmmmmm
Na waooooooooooooooo. O di egwu.
Seriously I don’t know when we Nigerians will stop all these act of shame in diaspora. Well its their cup of tea sha, wish them happy sipping.
Hnmmmm
Small bt mighty story. Imagine wht d citizens of a nation called Giant of Africa is passing 2ru in another man’s country jst bcos of…………. There is God oooooooooooo.
Nigerians playing smart since 1900 *pathetic
Na wa o! All dis shame for what now
Na waah o, go through all this all bc you want ur child to b a British citizen as if I do t have one@all .Nigerians I hail o
Naija is my country lol I hail una oo
Nigerians, hmmmm all 4 what now?
Na wa
Being in nigeria would have been better for her at this moment.see what greed has caused
Imagine d disgrace. Most u have ur baby in d uk.
But this happens a lot there
If our dear country is good, why will anyone go through all these just to become a citizen of another country? I hope our leaders are reading this.
Just too bad. Why wouldn’t they think the way they think about us? Fraudulence everywhere.
Hmmmmm! The issue of citizenry!!! Lolz.
Everyone wants to give birth in obodo oyinbo. eww
If it were U.S.A, they will still grant the baby citizenship so long as he ws born there. Bt d British ppl r too strict
when your know the British hate Blacks, how can desperation, greed and inferiority complex push some this far?
hmmmmm it is well may God help her find a way out
Na wa oooo
So sad.
Proudly Niaja! Bt ds story na story fr d gods
Na by force to be british citizen o ga jst disgracing nigeria
Nigerians keep embarassing themselfs in the overseas….So tired of you guys
What a disgrace. What makes them thing people won’t find out? Why couldn’t she just have the baby in Nigeria ? Let then face the music and this is a warning to others
All in d name of UK citizenship…..at d end of d day u r still a nigerian,no paper can change dat.Abeg stop destroyn d image of those of us that are proud to be nigerians.
When she comes back home,she ll come with all d swag of”i had my baby abroad” lol
Hehehehehehehehehehe… Despirado!!
That’s why they care more about the few that died in france than the thousands boko haram has killed here. May God raise a good leader for us… Amen.
This is why we must not just vote wisely in this forth-coming election but also pray that God should visit us with a good leader who will better the lifes of our people! God bless Nigeria!!!
Hunmm dey wan born citizen
who is lieing and who is telling the truth?
Na niaja condition cause am
Who keeps passport on a bench?smh fraudsters