Nigerian Man marries his own daughter to get her UK Visa
Category: World News
A Nigerian Home Office worker ‘married’ his own daughter to get her a British visa, The extraordinary scam was apparently executed by Jelili Adesanya while ministers turned a blind eye.
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| Jelili Adesanya and his ‘daughter’ Karimotu Adenike pictured in Britain |
Mr Adesanya, 54, has lived here for more than 30 years and holds a British passport, but wanted his daughter, her husband and their four sons to join him from Nigeria.
He faked a wedding ceremony
complete with a photograph of the happy ‘couple’ which helped fool
immigration officials that his daughter, Karimotu Adenike, was really
his wife.
Miss Adenike, who is in her mid-30s, was duly granted permission to live in the UK.
The pair are waiting for her to be granted a permanent right to
remain before they undergo a quiet divorce and attempt to bring the rest
of her family here.
It is expected she would try to remarry her real husband to get them all visas.
But despite being tipped off two years ago, the Home Office seems to
have done nothing to stop the scam by one of their own workers.
Until recently, Mr Adesanya was employed as an occupational health
nurse for the Home Office, working with immigration officials at Gatwick
airport.
A whistleblower sent letters to the High Commission in Lagos and the
UK Border Agency including specific details such as names, addresses,
passport numbers and even a copy of the wedding photograph.
When there was no response, he sent emails to then Home Secretary
Jacqui Smith and ministers Vernon Coaker and Phil Woolas on February 1
this year. He heard nothing.
Mr Adesanya, who came to Britain in 1976, flew back to Nigeria on May
29, 2007, and held the bogus wedding ceremony a few days later at a
register office in Ikorodu, Lagos.
A source said: ‘They paid people to attend the wedding so that the
British High Commission in Lagos would believe it was genuine. The
commission then gave Karimotu Adenike a two-year settlement visa in
October 2007.
‘On her settlement visa application form, of course, she did not mention that she already had a husband and four children.
‘The date of birth on her Nigerian passport is not her real date of birth.’
Miss Adenike is believed to have aged herself by ten years on her wedding certificate to disguise the age gap with her father.
Although her settlement visa expired last month, she is hoping to be given the right to remain.
David Burrowes, the Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate and Shadow
Justice Minister, was also tipped off by the whistleblower and wrote to
the Home Office.
This time there was a reply, but it said that although the matter was
‘under investigation’, no further information would be provided because
it could ‘breach of our obligations under the Data Protection Act’.
Mr Burrowes told the Mail: ‘I am very surprised and concerned that no action appears to have been taken, because the allegations are extremely serious.’
Mr Adesanya, who lives with his daughter in Dagenham, Essex,
vehemently denied the plot and said he had never been questioned about
the allegations.
He said: ‘Married my own daughter? I have never heard anything like
this in my life. I deny it. She is my wife, not my daughter.’
However, asked to confirm his ‘wife’s’ date of birth, he said he did
not know without checking her passport, and refused to allow her to
speak for herself.
Unbeknown to him, his daughter had confirmed the arrangement when she told a friend she would shortly apply for her own British passport and ‘divorce daddy’.
Last night Jonathan Sedgwick, from the UK Border Agency, said: ‘These
individuals are already under investigation, and I want to make it
clear that abuse of our immigration laws will not be tolerated.
‘If we identify marriages which we believe are not genuine, we will challenge them and prosecute where appropriate.
‘We are determined to send home any foreign nationals convicted of these types of crimes once they have served their sentences.’
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