See Why UK-based Nigerian Mum Of 2 Paid A Man £1000 To Act As Her Baby’s Dad

A Nigerian woman identified as Fausat Abolore, who paid a man £1,000 to pose as her baby’s father in order to dodge deportation, was caught out after authorities found online photos of the real dad, Peter Gentry, cradling his son at a naming ceremony on September 15, 2014.

Dailymail learnt that the 29-year-old mum was arraigned yesterday, August 10th, before a court in the United Kingdom for allegedly hiring one Anthony Ezekpo in a plot to gain British citizenship, using his name on the baby’s birth certificate and a subsequent passport application.

Fausat and Anthony were caught when she transferred £1,000 into Ezekpo’s account on the same day he tried to register the child’s birth certificate. She also claimed they lived together in Chandlers Drive in Erith in an attempt to fool Greenwich council officials.

Prosecutor, Adam Gardner, said:

“It was necessary for Miss Abolore to find a British citizen and that’s where Mr. Ezekpo comes in.

He was enlisted as part of a fraudulent scheme to get British citizenship for her to remain in the UK.

A man turned up with her at council offices in Greenwich to register the birth and get a birth certificate. The man putting himself forward as the father was not Mr Gentry but Mr Ezekpo, and they both said they lived together.”

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Fausat, who gave birth to her son at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich on August 6, 2014, was previously arrested in September last year after refusing to consent to a paternity test. The jury was told that she was under Home Office investigation and she had no legal basis to be in the UK.

“She had a great deal to hide,” said the prosecutor. She knew if she gave consent to the DNA test it would reveal the truth that Mr Ezekpo was not the father and her application for a passport and birth certificate were all lies.”

“Mr Awoyinka said he knew Mr Ezekpo for five years from his church congregation,” Mr Gardner said, adding that, “This was not true, he barely knew the man. He then admitted he signed the passport application and went to Greenwich.”

Meanwhile, Awoyinka, of Havil Street, Southwark, has denied making a false statement. Both Fausat and Ezepko also denied conspiracy to breach immigration law and giving false information when registering a birth. Fausat also denied seeking leave to remain in the UK by deception.