Mailonline reports that a Nigerian, Oluwaseun Adenubi, 30, pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation after using the passport of her friend, Rita Ogunkunle, 32, to obtain free medical care after giving birth. The Nigerian mother allowed a British couple to register as her new baby’s parents in bid to get free NHS care and secure a UK passport for the child, a court heard.
Adenubi was granted a family visit visa, which allowed her to stay in the UK for up to six months and claimed that she found Ogunkunle’s passport on a bench, Croydon Crown Court heard. But when Ogunkunle was arrested in August, she claimed Adenubi took her passport after moving into her spare room.
Ogunkunle and her boyfriend, Michael Adebambo, 46, registered the baby as theirs at Bromley Civic Centre a day after the baby's birth and have now pleaded guilty to giving false information.
The name of the British couple (Ogunkunle) suggest that they are originally from south western Nigerian. Subsequently, when you read stuff like this you wonder if they were perhaps paid to register the child as theirs or were they simply trying to do a friend a favour and why this level of desperation from a Nigerian Mother. Whatever the case may be the penalty for the crime contrary to the 1911 Perjury Act, is a maximum sentence of seven years ‘penal servitude.’
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