Nigerian Illegal Fleeces Taxpayers Of Over £30K And Has Two Kids

An illegal Nigerian immigrant, who claimed over £30,000 in benefits using a bogus U.K. passport and had two children, has been locked-up for a year and will be booted out of the country on her release.

Oluwakemi Ibitoye, 37, obtained details of a successful asylum applicant and used them to also receive a genuine National Insurance number, entitling her to benefits and apply for a driving licence.

Croydon Crown Court heard Ibitoye, of Battersea - who claims her mother gave her the details of a Nigerian asylum-seeker - went to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) office in Tooting and tricked them into believing she was a lawful resident.

She pleaded guilty to using a false instrument, namely a U.K. passport; making a false representation to the DWP on May 10, 2006; obtained leave to remain in the U.K. by deception on August 14, 2009 and made a false statement to obtain a driving licence in a false name on September 26, 2009.

She was arrested in Sutton by police on February 25.

Ibitoye told police she was abandoned by her family and then brought to the U.K. by her mother in 2000.

She has children aged eighteen months and two-and-a-half years who were born in the U.K. and enjoy full citizenship.