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Nigerian Pastor, Others Jailed In One Of Uk’s Biggest Sham Marriage (PHOTOS) by ToyinAspireBlog: 12:58am On Oct 27, 2016
A Nigerian pastor and 10 others involved in one of the biggest sham marriage in the UK have been jailed for 50 years in total.

Three men are regarded as the driving forces behind the racket that involved at least 45 fake relationships received the longest sentences.

The Nigerian pastor identified as 41-year-old Donald Nwachukwu, senior pastor at the Kingdom of Godfire Church in Bilston, was jailed for eight years.

It was discovered that Nwachukwu used his position to identify West Africans in the UK country illegally who were prepared to pay up to £6,500 for permission to stay on the bogus grounds of being married to, or in a long term relationship with, a person from the European Union living and working in this country.

An astonishing £153,000 worth of credits passed through bank accounts run by the pastor under a false name before he was arrested at his home in Titford Road, Oldbury.

Another person identified as Clemence Marijeni, aged 43, from Weston Road, Bilston was the master forger who created the fake documents to support the spurious applications for European Economic Area (EEA) resident’s cards that allowed the holder to stay in the UK and claim benefits. He was jailed for ten years.

Olatunji George, 44 – a law student who had completed a module on immigration law – administered the operation and also got 10 years behind bars.

He claimed to be paid up to £1,000-a-time to prepare packages of the correct documents and fill in the necessary paperwork for the bogus resident’s card applications.

His home in Taylor Way, Tividale held an ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ of information when raided by Immigration Enforcement investigators who, after a tip off, halted the marriage of a 26-year-old Nigerian and a Czech woman, who both lived in Wolverhampton. She revealed that Nwachukwu had been involved in organising the bogus wedding. Checks on the pastor revealed phone calls between him, George and Marijeni.

Jozef Puzo, aged 28, St Pauls Road, Smethwick, was jailed for five years. He provided the final piece of the jigsaw by earning up to £750-a-time finding women and men from the Czech and Slovakian communities prepared to take part in the scam. Both he and George are now on the run after fleeing during their trial but were convicted and sentenced in their absence.

Aishatu Ibrahim, 25, from Oxford has also gone missing but was given three and a half years and another defendant –Idris Agia, 31, of Hodnet Grove, Highgate was arrested moments before flying out of the country to Nigeria just days ago. He was jailed for three and a half years.

The other five defendants were each jailed for between two and three and a half years. All defendants were found guilty of immigration offences.
Jailing them at Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday, Judge Amjad Nawaz said: “These were all willing participants in a well organised system operated for profit.”

(First picture is Donald Nwachukwu, senior pastor at the Kingdom of Godfire Church in Bilston)

May God save us from end time pastors....


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Re: Nigerian Pastor, Others Jailed In One Of Uk’s Biggest Sham Marriage (PHOTOS) by talktonase(m): 1:13am On Oct 27, 2016
When a person talks too much with the Bible in his arm I get scared because in the midst of so many words their are lies...people go dey use God dey lie any how! Judgment day dey com ai...
Re: Nigerian Pastor, Others Jailed In One Of Uk’s Biggest Sham Marriage (PHOTOS) by Nobody: 2:33am On Oct 27, 2016
ToyinAspireBlog:
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The Nigerian pastor identified as 41-year-old Donald Nwachukwu senior pastor at the Kingdom of Godfire Church in Bilston, was jailed for eight years.
It was discovered that Nwachukwu ....
She revealed that Nwachukwu had been involved in organising the bogus wedding.

(First picture is Donald Nwachukwu senior pastor at the
reporting from Surulere smiley

Re: Nigerian Pastor, Others Jailed In One Of Uk’s Biggest Sham Marriage (PHOTOS) by cutekhalifa(m): 2:40am On Oct 27, 2016
Buhari E no go beta for you... Tufiakwa
Re: Nigerian Pastor, Others Jailed In One Of Uk’s Biggest Sham Marriage (PHOTOS) by Nobody: 6:10am On Oct 27, 2016
cutekhalifa:
Buhari E no go beta for you... Tufiakwa
shocked bro you dey vex oo

Re: Nigerian Pastor, Others Jailed In One Of Uk’s Biggest Sham Marriage (PHOTOS) by olumaxi(m): 7:05am On Oct 27, 2016
Pastor donald nwachukwu..there are even no more saints in biafra.. .so,who says d capital of biafra isnt gomohra

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