Four people have been jailed after forging more than 2,000 marriage certificates to help people live in the UK illegally.

Abraham Alade Olarotimi Onifade, 41, Abayomi Aderinsoye Shodipo, 38, Nosimot Mojisola Gbadamosi, 31, and Adekunle Kabir, 54, were all sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court in London on Tuesday.

The Home Office said the four were part of an organised criminal group that made fraudulent EU Settlement Scheme applications for Nigerian nationals.

They carried out the enterprise between March 2019 and May last year, and were also found to have provided false Nigerian Customary Marriage Certificates and other fraudulent documentation to help applicants remain in the country.

An investigation from the Home Office in the UK and Lagos found more than 2,000 false marriage documents were facilitated by the group, who themselves were Nigerian.

Home Office chief immigration officer Paul Moran said: "This group was absolutely prolific in their desire to abuse our borders and have rightly been brought to justice.

"As with many gangs we encounter, their sole priority was financial gain. I am delighted that my team was able to intercept their operation, and I hope these convictions will serve as a warning to unscrupulous gangs who exploit people's desperation to remain in the UK.

"We will continue to work tirelessly to secure our borders and clamp down on the gangs who prey on vulnerable people to make money."

Onifade, from Gravesend in Kent, and Shodipo, from Manchester, were both found guilty of conspiracy to facilitate illegal entry into the UK and conspiracy to provide articles used in fraud. They were jailed for six years and five years respectively.

Gbadamosi, from Bolton, was convicted of obtaining leave to remain by deception and fraud by false representation and sentenced to six years.

Kabir, from London, was found guilty of possession of an identity document with improper intention but was cleared of obtaining leave to remain by deception. He was jailed for nine months.

AllDModsAreMaad:

Stop being a big fo ol.

Simply checking the registered voters in the the regions under discussion is enough to enlighten you on it.

If you're wise, you would have taken a screenshot of it and post here, but since you're know it is a lie, you won't do that.

NORSYK:


Stop being a foo.l
Just go to INEC Portal and check the voting strength of all LGAs in Owerri zone.
Do you think mushrooms LGAs like Isu, Nwangele, Nkwere, Njaba, Orsu, Oru west, Oru East and Ideato North stand a chance?

AllDModsAreMaad:
NORSYK, idiotseverywher, Ochendo1, you all should come and check the results here and also take note of the recalculated results for Mbaise.

It has always been a known thing with Mbaise result being rigged and inflated.
Check the recalculated results for it.

That was the same thing he did in 2019 but he got busted.

The good thing is it wont work in the next election because of BVAS. That is why I said he should better spend his money on something else other than campaigning.

AllDModsAreMaad:

Tell that to your elders.

Back to the topic, normally the most populated LGA in Imo state and second most populated in southeast is in Orlu zone.
By voting strength, Orlu zone, which is Imo west is the district with highest number of registered voters.
I don't need to confirm anything because one silly human, I always know this.
Excluding Owerri municipal, which other place in Owerri east has population biko?
Mbaise is only popular for one reason, and you know that reason?

AllDModsAreMaad:

The last time I checked, there was nothing like your claim there.
The point is the population combined, don't try to divide it, I'm wiser than you.

Same way aboh-mbaise, mbaino and mbaitolu combined is not up to Orlu Town's population.
Dun ce, mention a zone with a higher voting population OR keep sh ut the fu ck up please. Using voters apathy here is not an excuse, they can still decide to participate in the next election.

You think that style he used in the last election will work this time around?
People knw he tried in rigging it in his zone to the point of over rigging which prolly gave him out when the number of votes casted exceeded the number of accredited voters.

AllDModsAreMaad:

You are a novice in Imo politics, Orlu has the deciding population/factor in Imo politics and Ihedioha is not popular positively among us.
Him go lose woefully even if he gets the ticket under PDP.

greatiyk4u:
This is the truth

Only those mbaise people Ihedioha smuggled their names into the civil service record without following due process are complaining


Anyone with counter evidence should show it not rumour from Facebook friends that work in the civil service


I am in Imo state and can testify to what the Gov said though the salary is partially slashed

AmazonTopaz:
The supreme court is superior to any customary court.The government owns the land and if I find myself in such situation I will not give it to any brother's children the question was what if the man has no brother and son who takes it?you have not answered that.People do not challenge these laws as a result of respect nothing more it does not mean it is a impossible uphill task to do.Because the law is very clear ancestral land or not

It depends on how you see women.
That one has no meaning to me if you ask me this is the only argument you can hold in court but there are many arguments an intelligent lawyer can hold against you to challenge such a premise.Some judges won't even see this issue as a substantial arguments because a lot of people even build houses outside ancestral homes and some ancestral homes even get renovated.
This argument holds no water to be honest

AmazonTopaz:
Exactly my dear.These men can only say these rubbish to uneducated igbo women not me I know my rights and the law very well it is because the women are conditioned not to challenge these laws that is why they still exist if many women in igbo land challenge some certain harmful laws the supreme court will abolish a lot of these laws.
Ancestral land that belongs to the government these people think it cannot be challenged in favour of the daughters LOL.

Ochendo1 where are you.