Sandberg?She is obviously not Nigerian

Her real name is Peace Akwaranta Oluwole Sandberg
She's Nigerian

She doesn't resemble a Nigerian

@sheniqua
she has dual nationality nigerian and swedish. y would u rather call her nigerian?

angel101:

@sheniqua
she has dual nationality nigerian and swedish. y would u rather call her nigerian?

Chai!Nigerians sef.If this woman won some award,we will be quick to claim she is Nigerian.

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Chai!Nigerians sef.If this woman won some award,we will be quick to claim she is Nigerian.

the irony is that if she did win an award, BBC will report it as being a swedish woman

Akwaranta?

angel101:

the irony is that if she did win an award, BBC will report it as being a swedish woman

I believe the code phrase would be Nigerian-born Swedish national.

So why didn't she just smuggle the child to Sweden so her country folks will have pity on her.

savanaha:

So why didn't she just smuggle the child to Sweden so her country folks will have pity on her.

no business there.

sheniqua:

Her real name is Peace Akwaranta Oluwole Sandberg
She's Nigerian

Abeg, where did you find the "Akwaranta Oluwole" from ? any link ?

_{these nairaland people sef}

LASIEFAIRE:

no business there.

Was she selling the kid?? Or which kind business?

Tonim:

Abeg, where did you find the "Akwaranta Oluwole" from ? any link ?

_{these nairaland people sef}

Rofl

I no understand that name at all

What is the difference betweeen her crime and the one French aid workers did in Chad last year? Did they get a sentence as long as this even though their own crime is more heinous because this woman obviously did not kidnap the child.

Tonim:

Abeg, where did you find the "Akwaranta Oluwole" from ? any link ?

_{these nairaland people sef}

Since you people said she was Nigerian, I figured she needed a Nigerian identity so I gave her one.

sheniqua:

Her real name is Peace Akwaranta Oluwole Sandberg
She's Nigerian

Akwaranta (igbo) means fake cry
Oluwole (yoruba) means counterfeit

Answer: British laws are apparently not same as those in the Republic of Chad. I mean we can go ahead and compare the case of the man who killed his next door neighbour in Nigeria and was able to bribe his way out of a life sentence to the man in texas currently on deathrow for the same crime.

The woman does look Nigerian to me. My question is why didn't she get the kid into sweden legally and then move to the UK afterwards??
Anywho, for those who do not see the evil in what she did. Let me help you a bit. [size=13pt]This woman . according to the article,BOUGHT a child from Nigeria to use in the UK for benefits.[/size] She did not adopt the child or even take the child from a relative to the UK. [size=13pt]She BOUGHT the child and then illegally smuggled it into the UK. [/size]

why are you people saying she doesn't look Nigerian.
She does look very Nigerian.
She looks like she's Efik or Ibibio or generally from Cross River/Akwa Ibom area
Or even Igbo from Ngwa side.

Kobojunkie:

according to the article,BOUGHT a child from Nigeria to use in the UK for benefits.[/size] She did not adopt the child or even take the child from a relative to the UK. [size=13pt]She BOUGHT the child and then illegally smuggled it into the UK. [/size]

the same article i read? as far as i read, the authorities are only assuming

A Nigerian woman has been jailed for 26 months for bringing a child illegally into the UK.

Peace Sandberg, who was living in the UK, went to Nigeria and bought a baby to become eligible for a council flat, Isleworth Court Court heard.

She was convicted last month of bringing a child illegally into the UK.

She was reported to police after she initially told council staff she had given birth to the boy, then changed her story to say he was adopted.

Sandberg had a daughter who was living with her in council accommodation in the borough of Ealing in west London.

With dual nationality - Nigerian and Swedish - she knew that as a European citizen working in the UK she would be eligible for a council flat because she had a child.

But her daughter left the UK and moved to Sweden to live with her father, Sandberg's ex-husband.

With her daughter's departure Sandberg saw her hopes of a new home slipping away - which is when she hatched her plan to get a child.

Distraught appearance


At the end of 2006 she flew back to Nigeria.

She had already sent £150 which the police believe was payment for the baby boy.

She needed a visa to take him into the UK.

During the trial Andrea Charles, a visa officer at the British High Commission in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, described to the jury how a distraught Sandberg turned up with the baby.

She claimed she had given birth to him in Nigeria because she wanted him to qualify for a Nigerian passport.

Ms Charles said she had no reason to doubt her story and issued the visa.

When Sandberg arrived back at Heathrow airport she immediately went to the housing department.

Councillor Ian Green of Ealing Council says: "She told staff that the child was hers. But they had seen her only a few months before and knew that the child couldn't be hers as she wasn't pregnant at the time.


"She then changed her story and said she had adopted the child.


"Council officers were still not satisfied and alerted the police and the other authorities because they were of the opinion that she was using this child to gain council accommodation."

A criminal investigation was launched by the Metropolitan Police's Paladin Team, specialists in child trafficking.

Isolated case?


Det Insp Gordon Valentine, who heads Paladin, said: "This was clearly a case of trafficking.


"Peace Sandberg is a heartless woman. She brought the baby from his home environment for the purpose of her own ends without any regard for the future of that child."

Child protection campaigners believe this is not an isolated case.

Christine Beddoe, director of the children's charity ECPAT UK, said: "We get information brought to us about suspicions of child trafficking particularly for housing benefit fraud from social services and from children's organisations.

"They don't seem to be reported to the police. But we do believe it is much more widespread than people think."

Social services have been unable to find the child's real family in Nigeria.

He is now in foster care and looks set to be adopted and grow up in the UK.

Det Insp Valentine says: “There is a possibility this child will never know his true identity."



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7404090.stm

Well, it is ok for you to pick and choose what you will believe based on how your bias swings for the day. I wonder if anyone of you actually care about the child involved considering your emotions run high only when some foreign government is involved but since the child involved is a Nigeria. I doubt any one of you will be signing any petitions soon to force yar adua to investigate and help find it's parents before it get's lost in the system outside of Nigeria forever.

Kobojunkie:

Well, it is ok for you to pick and choose what you will believe based on how your bias swings for the day. I wonder if anyone of you actually care about the child involved considering your emotions run high only when some foreign government is involved but since the child involved is a Nigeria. I doubt any one of you will be signing any petitions soon to force yar adua to investigate and help find it's parents before it get's lost in the system outside of Nigeria forever.

So far you are the only person talking sense. Everyone is talking about how the

reputation of naija is being affected instead of the welfare of the little child who has

been caught up in this whole case.

No be God!!

That smally don use under-gee style get Visa/greencard wey people dey line up everyday for embassy for yet no show. Ehn bread don butter be that. This na real testimony wey dem dey give for church. I dey happy for am well well, I just hope say which ever foster care ehn dey under go take care of am well well. Chei no be beans.

Even the pikin mama and papa go reject am.

As for the sandbag abi garribag woman, Na only sorry I fit tell her. As a 9ja woman she try jare. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm quite certain she adopted that child from one of the numerous orphanages littered all over the country where you can adopt a child for less than U.S $50 with or without being qualified to adopt. Who could blame her for what she did.
If she get the house na she and the pikin for dey live inside.

Let us crucify her because shes Nigerian not because of the crime she allegedly committed.


@ Sheniqua

You no see any other name for the whole of Obodo Nigeria to give her na Igbo Name you see abi? wetin do "Aisha, Kemi, Fatima, Bimbo, Efe, Apkos, Oghenekevwe, Odiong, Damilola". Anyhow sha nutin do u, na still 9ja go carry the shame irrespective of her name.

Esss:


@ Sheniqua

You no see any other name for the whole of Obodo Nigeria to give her na Igbo Name you see abi? wetin do "Aisha, Kemi, Fatima, Bimbo, Efe, Apkos, Oghenekevwe, Odiong, Damilola". Anyhow sha nutin do u, na still Nigeria go carry the shame irrespective of her name.

Which kind name is Bimbo

savanaha:

Which kind name is Bimbo

are you American?

Bimbo is a Yoruba name, in case you were wondering.

short for Abimbola- born to wealth.

the American version is derogatory, not the Nigerian one.




@ topic:

she got caught.

How do people cope with all these multiple names, personalities and identities sef. Which one be British Swedish Nigerian.

tpia:

are you American?

Bimbo is a Yoruba name, in case you were wondering.

short for Abimbola- born to wealth.

the American version is derogatory, not the Nigerian one.

Now I understand. Not American just never heard of bimbo as good maybe tied to wealth in some way but never a good way before now.

Instead of being angry that a Nigerian child,not a Swedish child,was put on sale,they are more angry over the perceived slight to our reputation by Westerners.

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Instead of being angry that a Nigerian child,not a Swedish child,was put on sale,they are more angry over the perceived slight to our reputation by Westerners.

True Talk! At times, i'm deeply ashamed at how some of my fellow Nigerians reason.

Oluwole (yoruba) means counterfeit

See this one again . . . .Oluwole means counterfeit in your own village right?

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Instead of being angry that a Nigerian child,not a Swedish child,was put on sale,they are more angry over the perceived slight to our reputation by Westerners.

Touche.

Sandberg?She is obviously not Nigerian

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She doesn't resemble a Nigerian

first response one the topic

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Instead of being angry that a Nigerian child,not a Swedish child,was put on sale,they are more angry over the perceived slight to our reputation by Westerners.

and then

My friend actually works for the Ealing council n when she told me, i thought she was Joking.

Even as a EU citizen she couldve gotten benefits but she could not be patient. i worry for the Kid. Well, i really dont know what to say with regards this silly woman except that she really went too far this time.