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Marriage Scam?

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Posted by: Misi Coker on November 19, 2009 Under: Africa, Discussion Lounge, Europe/Australia, News Snips, Nigeria, United Kingdom



Nigerian man, Mr. Adesanya, marries his daughter, Karimotu Adenike, so he can file for her to become a British resident.

Mr. Adesanya, a home office employee who has lived in the UK for almost 30 years, went all out to ensure that he presented himself and his new “bride” as a happily married couple. He flew back to Nigeria on May 29, 2007, and held a bogus wedding ceremony a few days later at a registry in Lagos, Nigeria. The fake wedding ceremony was complete with pictures of the happy ‘couple’ which were used to fool immigration officers that they were marriage. The scam obviously worked because his daughter/wife was granted the resident permit.

Apparently the Home Office was tipped off 2 years about the scam, but did nothing to stop it. Now, the couple are being investigated by officials.

Mr Adesanya, who lives with his daughter in Dagenham, Essex, vehemently denied the plot saying,

‘Married my own daughter? I have never heard anything like this in my life. I deny it. She is my wife, not my daughter.’

Unbeknownst to him, his daughter confirmed the arrangement when she told a friend she would shortly apply for her own British passport and “divorce daddy”.

This is a serious act of desperation and a reflection of bad leadership in Nigeria. Or what do you think?


5 comment(s)

  1. Loud | Nov 19, 2009 | Reply

    Please what do our leaders have to do with this? granted our leaders have their issues but does that mean that those they are leading cannot be blamed for anything…please it is no reflection of bad leadership bt of this man’s desperation. shikena!!!

  2. Misi | Nov 19, 2009 | Reply

    @Loud, I beg to differ. Given Mr. Adesanya & his daughter are at fault. However, do you think Nigerian citizens would be scrambling to live elsewhere if Nigeria was as good as the other countries?

  3. Loud | Nov 20, 2009 | Reply

    We are saying the same thing only that we are don’t share the same opinion on which fault should be emphasized. Like I said earlier granted our leaders have their issues but that is not the most important thing in this story, t me it is the man’s desperation to you it seems to be the leaders.

    Who are the leaders anyways, I cry out for better nigerian leaders as well but my fear is that people sometime tend to forget that for us to have good leaders we need good citizens…I mean Mr Adesanya’s desperation led him to fake his marriage to his daughter, if for instance in another world he was a nigerian minister his desperation would have led him to corruption that our leaders indulge in now. At the end of the day, the roles have changed but Mr Adesanya hasn’t…doo you kinda understand why I am against blaming our leaders for everything, it s because when we do we sometime neglect the faults of the individuals they are leading.

  4. Misi | Nov 21, 2009 | Reply

    @ Loud, I totally get you. Isn’t this a question what comes first the chicken or the egg? I say egg, you say chicken-LOL!. You’re right to a point but then I will respond that if we had good leaders, we would have a good country which in turn will mean our citizens don’t have to leave Nigeria in desperate search of greener pastures.

  5. Loud | Nov 21, 2009 | Reply

    Fair enough but our leaders were once non-leaders and I believe that most corrupt leaders were corrupt and unpatriotic before they became leaders. There is not much that we can do about our present leaders but there is so much we can do to make sure we have better future leaders. I believe it is time we start making nigerians better people, this is because if we choose our leaders from “the new crop of nigerians” then we would have better leaders and we would have followers that would be able to choose the right leaders. You know these leaders cannot actually rig elections without help from the people they lead.

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