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A 36-YEAR-old man has been jailed for two years and his wife received a three-year suspended sentence for what has been described as one of the largest welfare fraud cases in the State.
The combined fraud totals more than €400,000 and took place over a period of more than eight years.
Kenneth Gboboh and his 41-year-old wife Franca arrived in Ireland from Nigeria in 2006.
Both applied for and began to receive unemployment benefit. Mr Gboboh then established a second identity under the name Patrick Akim and worked as an IT project manager using this name. He also took out a €240,000 mortgage from EBS in 2008 using the name Patrick Akim.
During this time, his wife was continuing to claim jobseeker’s benefit and did not inform the Department of Social Protection that Mr Gboboh was in employment. After he bought the property at Willow Avenue, Primrose Gate, Celbridge in Co Kildare, Franca Gboboh applied to switch their rent allowance to the newly purchased house.
Her husband filled out a tenancy agreement and signed it as Patrick Akim.
Giving evidence at the sentencing hearing at Naas Circuit Court earlier today, investigating garda Tomás Burke said “the rent allowance granted by Irish State was effectively used to pay that rent under false pretenses”.
Overall, Kenneth Gboboh had fraudulently claimed more than €4,000 in jobseeker’s allowance and fraudulently obtained a mortgage of over €240,000. Franca Gboboh had claimed jobseeker’s allowance of more than €132,000 and rent allowance of almost €49,000. The court also heard that since the State stopped paying rent allowance the couple, who have four children have run up €40,000 in arrears on the mortgage.
Garda Burke, who told the court he had worked for three years investigating welfare fraud said: “I believe this one, combined with the mortgage application and the welfare fraud is one of the largest, if not the largest investigated to date.”
Judge Michael O’Shea was informed by defence counsel of a number of mitigating and personal factors in the case, in particular in the case of Mrs Gboboh.
The court heard that investigating gardaí discovered during their questioning that she could neither read nor write, and she claimed her husband had filled out all of the claim forms on her behalf. Garda Burke told the court that he believed it was Mr Gboboh who was “directing and controlling” the fraud.
When asked about the stress the woman had been under over this period, he replied: “She had to essentially commit fraud every week, so I can imagine it was stressful.”
A psychological assessment found the 41-year-old woman had a difficult upbringing in Nigeria and ranked in the bottom one percentile intellectually. The court was also told that the couple’s youngest child has autism.
Justice O’Shea handed down a three-year sentence to Kenneth Gboboh, with the last 12 months suspended. In sentencing his wife, he acknowledged that she had been “under the control and influence of her husband”.
And while he said children should not be “used as a shield”, he asked: “Can the children lose two parents in one day?”
He sentenced her to three years for each of the 14 counts of fraud to run concurrently and suspended all three years.
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Why have they not being deported and banned from re entering the country ? That would send a message to other thinking of doing the same.
@Pilib O Muiregan: They wouldn’t do any time if they were deported. Standard practice is to deport straight from jail
@ForeverFeel1ng: Doubt they’ll be deported if the kids were born here. They’ll all be well looked after on our overly generous welfare system thanks to the pressure from socialists.
@Dean Kelly: Meanwhile you comment on every post, defending wasters like these two Nigerians, just because they’re black.
@Dean Kelly: Meanwhile you comment on every post, defending wasters like these two Nigerians, just because they’re black.
@Dean Kelly: just because our own are scamming the system doesn’t mean we need more to come in and do the same now does it Dean. Think logically about this before making racist and bigoted comments.
@ForeverFeel1ng: pity, there is a cost to the tax payer for incarceration of the husband and the wife plus kids will go on receiving benefits…
@Dean Kelly: Very few agree with your views, Dean. So you can remain under that rock you speak of. The conservative and silent majority dont like the fact that our state is being screwed over by fraudster immigrants. Seems reasonable dont you think? Yet you throw the racist card… you are the dope!
@Dean Kelly: I didnt see in the article that they are black. If anybody of any color commits a crime while resident in another country they should be deported.
@Pilib O Muiregan: Because then you are just rewarding them with free plane tickets. lol Break the law, go to the jail. Deportation should be an option afterward.
@Liam O Reilly: Excuse me? Where did I defend wasters, or indeed wasters because they are black? The only wasters I see commenting here day in and day out are Irish.
@Pilib O Muiregan: Oh really? Just like you didn’t stereotype all black people as looters and thieves in your comment on the other thread which was deleted by the mods. I agree that anybody who commits a crime should be punished regardless of colour. I’d love to see less tracksuit wearing racist scroats walking the streets in Ireland also ;)
@ForeverFeel1ng: they won’t be deported because there holding Irish passports
@Dean Kelly: So whats your point then, in relation to the article? Or did you just come straight to the comments to bitch to everyone…
@ForeverFeel1ng: they should be deported now & not when they are out of jail, they are costing the state a fortune at the moment & it’s not as if they are going to pay it back.
@Dean Kelly: So in the same comment you criticize someone for stereotyping blacks, then you go on to stereotype people who wear tracksuits as racist. Did you even read over your comment? I’d only love for these dirty scrounges to be deported once the father is released. It’d make my day.
@Pilib O Muiregan: the reason they will not be deported is multi faceted. They are prob Irish citizens at this stage and the dept of Justice are afraid to revoke citizenship because the free legal aid solicitors will make a fortune fighting it. They will argue that all their lives are in Ireland and all their ties are here too etc etc You need to murder someone to have citizenship revoked even then you have a good chance at staying if you got your Irish passport. The dept of justice in Ireland is soft and lazy and has been for years. the top boys in the dept of justice want an easy life on their 100k plus salary. They don’t wanna be in the high court. We have peados gangsters fraudsters and drug dealers who all get citizenship and become untouchable it’s amazing that opposition politicians have not brought this up. Deportations have stopped in Ireland we would rather give money to bankers than spend the money on shipping someone out. In America or Australia if you have lived their for 50 years they will deport you for drink driving, all you have to say in Ireland is that all your ties are here and you can’t go home because Ireland is now home and bobs your uncle your sorted. I know of a neighbor who is from Nigeria who has numerous assaults and drink driving offenses and he swans around untouchable. We are soft.
@Stephen Winterson: Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Labour designed and run the welfare system in this country.
Nobody else.
@Gearóid Ó Brádaigh: Are you thick or something? Can you not read? Is my comment to the dope above not clear? Come back to me when you get a brain…unbelievable
@Dean Kelly: Its you that should crawl back under your rock. Using skin colour to defend fraud committed against the tax payers of this country. Classy person you are
@Stephen Winterson: Noting of the sort but jump on the bandwagon
@G O’Rourke:
What would SF, PBP or any other of the smaller parties do if in government. All politicians are afraid of the PC brigade and not voters.
@ForeverFeel1ng: at the risk of getting shot…down the 4 children are innocent…
@ForeverFeel1ng: Let’s hope that happens although I bet there is an army of do-gooders waiting for his release to stop any deportation. Welcome to the new Irish.
@Dean Kelly: They’re from that shiethole where all these scammers come from. If I had my way they would be all rounded up and sent packing and you with them
@Pilib O Muiregan: they’ve defrauded the system now our tax payers money is still being wasted on yer mans two year jail term. Should be straight out on their ear .
@helen walsh: throw the kids out as they will be the next generation of scammers
@Stephen Winterson: It is actually some sick agreement Ireland signed up to years back, they will be taking loads of African people in. When they send them back to Africa, they can still keep their child allowance.
@Stephen Winterson:
You do know we’ve never had a socialist government and the country has been ran by FIne Gale/Fianna Fáil (greens lab) governments for 100 years
Tip of the iceberg.
@gerard carey: I know, wait until they find out how many indigenous Irish are it.
But Ruth Coppinger told us there was no such thing as Welfare Fraud………?
@Michael Knight: Funny when anything about fraud comes out people scream that it’s not really happening it’s just the odd case. Then when a foreigner commits fraud people rush to say more Irish people are doing it, and they’re usually the same ones that previously claimed fraud isn’t happening.
On the victim hood scale Nigerians are ranked higher than native born who regardless of their faults are born entitled to welfare!
@Michael Knight: Ah would you look at that, Michael scrambling to defend utter vermin as per usual like the white knight that he is.
@gerard carey: Well a Nigerian lady in Sligo conned the gullible government agencies out of ONE MILLION EUROS with a complete cock & bull story about F.G.M and the famous Sligo Co Council even held a civic reception for her ——ALL at the ratepayer’s expense of course!!!
@Michael Knight: Yea, right… It just so happens that one of largest cases of fraud that the state has ever witnessed has been committed by non-Irish immigrants. But sure just keep clutching at your pro-immigration straws there and ignore the cold hard facts, as per usual. I suppose you think that this article is discriminatory on the grounds that it gives the majority immigrants a bad name?
@John Mc Donagh: but Sligo CoCo are renowned idiots, so it’s not really a fair comparison
@Karen Wellington: dont forget the millions wasted protecting a right of way that didnt exist by Sligo CoCo and where is the main man himself? Retired and creaming it up with the boys on the Boars of Irish Water.
@Brinster: not true. She simply questioned Leo s numbers, which the PAC proved to be … well … fraudulent themselves !!!! Quite funny when you think about it.
@Brinster: There’s fraud in every welfare system.
Leo Varadkar claimed it was costing €600 million a year.
Fact is, most of this was down to incompetent public servants being unable to do their calculations correctly.
Still, Leo got the gig ff the back of that one…..
Delighted these pair got jail.
@gerard carey:We only owe 205 Billion Euro costing 8 billion a year in interest ,so what is another million to facilitate economic migrants, like the convicted couple. We will rue the day we allowed mass migration into our hard won Republic. Tip of the iceberg is right.
@Michael Knight:
As a percentage I’d say it is much less and on a far smaller scale.
From the moment they arrived in Ireland , they set about defrauding the taxpayer, over the last 12 years that is a monstrous amount of welfare and while Kenneth Gboboh or his second identity Patrick Akim serves his two year sentence, then we will continue to fund his and his families living expenses,will they be repatriated afterwards, wicked.
@Honeybee: What about their Public Service Card, I thought it would prevent this kind of fraud, apparently not, we were told the PSC was the definitive identity card to guard against welfare fraud.
@Honeybee: this pre-dated the card. Go bang that drum somewhere else.
@Jumperoo: I was led to believe that all claimants of social welfare payments were required to obtain a PSC, it was introduced in 2011 , seven years ago , so why was the fraud not detected then?
@Jumperoo: a lot of Africans are coming here for our brilliant social welfare, not our brilliant jobs, it’s a joke
@Honeybee: If you actually check on the Examiner it did. Goboh not turning up to an appointment for a card set the whole investigation in motion.
@ForeverFeel1ng: Thank you for filling in the details, I was puzzled why if the mortgage was only taken out in 2008, that it took until now to discover the fraud when the government required a PSC for welfare entitlement.
@Honeybee: Only for Irish Citizens
@Louise: or our brilliant weather there here because were lovely people………not
@Carl Lowry: Totally not true.
@ForeverFeel1ng:
This card is a great thing to catch fraudsters and it should be mandatory for everyone to carry it at all times which would also assist the Gardai particulary if brexit draws more of these welfare migrants.
@Honeybee: the card only came out 1-2 years ago
@Joseph Caulfield: “Ihre Papiere, bitte!”
@Honeybee: Let the truth be known it was a con job,not worth the paper it was written on
I have no problem with foreigners coming to this country to work and if made redundant get any entitlements that apply to unemployment, however anyone who enters the state with the intention of fraud should be deported ASAP.
We have enough a$$h0les of our own to do that without adding more to it.
@Terry Cunningham: Do you think that a foreigner entering the country will declare their intention to defraud the state?
@Shakka1244: Purpose of visit Sir? – Sightseeing, drinking and a touch of fraud – Very good, welcome to Ireland
Brilliant….so on top of the fraud the state now has to pay for the custodial sentance
@Oscar Traynor: Yep, here to stay regardless of behaviour. There’s no incentive to not commit these crimes. 2 years in prison then will be supported by the state again upon release. Other fraudsters reading this article are not even thinking twice. All the while the state is being bent over a block and taken for millions. Deport them.
@Gearóid Ó Brádaigh:
Will he serve two years? No facts to back it up – haven’t been in jail yet – but it is my understanding that people only spent a fraction of a given sentence in jail.
Not only did he defraud the government he defrauded a bank. This guy is a criminal. Should have been locked up for a long time and the family should be sent back to Nigeria. End of.
@Fabio Dillon: Won’t happen if the kids were born here.
Ten years would have been more appropriate.
its amazing if you are irish and self employed ..yet if you become employed after paying taxman for years you dont get a thing…
This is what my tax pays for? Such a great little welcoming country.
Bottom 1% for intelligence but clever enough to pull the wool over the welfare lol
@Kevin Slater: I wonder did the fool who passed this allownce loose thier job? Were any funds recovered?
She wasn’t that intellectually challenged pulling a scam like that!
@Katie Mooney: would easily read a bank draft for 1000 euros if it was put under her nose
Codology
Deport Deport Deport
Dept of Social Protection are to blame. No monitoring carried out. Just threw money at the claimants in the early stages. They are a real soft touch. They should have been offered a place on a state employment scheme to flush out their real right to claim hardship social protection payments.
@Irish big fellow: your some dope! Only ones to blame are the criminal fraudsters!
@Paddy: The ones out of pocket are the one’s to blame – they have more to lose. Afterall Mr Okimo and his wife hit the ‘gravy train’
No need for name calling either – grow up!
The law in this country is to lenient they should be deported
Straight here from Nigeria to sign on. I thought the liberals said you couldnt get access to benefits straight away. Why dont we just deport these undesirables back to Nigeria upon the release from prison. I was waiting to read a line from the judge saying the sentence would be reduced as he would have a hard time in prison being a non national but it looks like he will be caged for the duration. Its for people like this we have the new card to monitor social welfare fraud. You will note the liberals dont want this card as it hurts their cause celebres “civil rights”
@Joseph Caulfield: liberals are a danger to the Irish taxpayer.
@KingBen: A lot of these liberals don’t pay tax
@Ciaran Kehoe: of course they don’t, they spend workers tax money.
Social welfare should only be available to Irish citizens of this state. Have no problem with immigrants coming here to work, but the spongers are a joke and contribute nothing.
@Louise: “Social welfare should only be available to Irish citizens of this state”
Only when they have worked for a certain amount of time or for a while to give them time to get their first job.
@Louise:
No it should also be available to EU citizens at the rate payable in their home country.
@Joseph Caulfield: only if they have worked here for a number of years. Any young Irish expats in australia are not entitled to welfare if they are unemployed and rightly so. Majority of the Romanian community are only here for hand outs too, it’s a joke. If your not here to work, go home!!
@Louise: Roma community not Romanian… Jesus Louise if you are going to be a bigot at least get it right…
@Anastasia Ni Riain: Great input Anastasia… And I am not being a bigot, I am simply stating facts!!
give it a week or two and she will be successfully claiming single parents allowance and rent allowance again
Deportation should be part of sentencing, and not discretionary at a later stage.
@Niall: ONLY the minister for justice can deport someone. The only man in the country who can decide. It’s incredible
Take the house. It really is that simple
Nigerian fraudsters who could have guessed. Do our civil servants have access to Google. Nigeria the most corrupt country on this planet. Nigerians don’t even trust Nigerians. How did they get into the country without jobs or money? There are no direct flights between Ireland and Nigeria.? The citizens of Ireland are being sold down the river by a civil service who crucify their own and are constantly proven inept when dealing with this foreign scourge.
Where’s the equality!!!! Both should serve time, Irish courts always goes soft on women!
Make him serve his 2 years and then Deport and Bank both.
Who owns the house now why isn’t it sold to pay back the state
@Michael Mulcahy: __ With mortgage arrears on an EBS mortgage, they’ll no doubt repossess the property, and I doubt that anyone’s going to have any sympathy when the “residents” get turfed out.
And all the criticism the government got for addressing this issue
@Ciaran: and still do!
I remember years ago being told of a former minister who did a “trade tour” to africa, and when he was in Lagos he wanted to post a few postcards home. when he went into one of the main post offices right up the top there was a stand with pamphlets “informing” of the welfare rights in several europe countries in particular Ireland & Uk. Pure and simple a points system to enter Europe including a fluent european language is required . Europe can not house, feed and supplement African, M/east low skilled migrants no more!!
Confiscate their passports and send them off…
How were these people enabled to come here and set up shop.
Surpised they arent seeking asylum!
These convicted fraudsters should be deported!
@marty: you make it sound as though everyone that comes to Ireland all have the same motive
There are so many hard working individuals from other countries helping to build and shape the economy,paying taxes and all that
They practically learnt the act from the so many lazy Irish people that are reliant on the state plus the millions of Irish citizens abroad are also guilty of same
So think twice before writing stuff here
@Olamire Olowu: We all know we have our own spongers here. Doesn’t change the fact that these losers have scamming us since they arrived 12 years ago. They should be deported once the husband completed his prison sentence.
This country is getting to be one of the biggest jokes, I hope the house was taking of them. My mother is 87 and she got a bill from the social welfare to pay 87,000 as they said she was not entitled to a full pension as she owed a second house. She couldn’t remember seeing that on the form when she turned 65. We requested her application that she signed for the pension and when we seen it a member of the consigned it for her as she was not well then. They didn’t care they gave her 3 weeks to pay the full amount and stopped her pension until she did.
It’s great to be Irish
Garda Burke,I’d heard of this guard before I was sure.then I looked back and seen he was involved in another big fraud conviction.this guy seems the real deal.three years in fraud leaves me asking the question ‘why isn’t this guy heading up the fraud section in the guards?’. As my grandpa used to say “ there’s nothing in life so sad as wasted talent”
@Michael Cleary: he’d be the right man alright if we had a fraud squad but the government won’t set one up Incase he go
@David Clarke: Incase he goes after their friends
@David Clarke: haha he’d have his hands full alright. Liked Garda Burke’s line about the stress of committing fraud every week…good sense of humor as well
@David Clarke: of course there’s a fraud squad – here’s the Wikipedia article:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda_National_Economic_Crime_Bureau
CAB should definitely go after that house.
He should serve his time and then be put on the boat.
Crazy – An Irish person looking for a mortgage needs to give blood and if its the wrong type on that day, they will be refused. This guy was able to get one for a completely different person while on benefits? Absolutely unfathomable.
How t fuk does some1 straight in from outside t EU get social welfare and rent allowance.
This really is t tip of t iceberg
As usual the woman gets off. Always excuses made for the women. Never hold them responsible for their actions. Find some way to put all the blame on a man. Feminist (in)justice.
2 yrs is very little , not much of a deterrent!
Probably only serve 14 months
If they tried this carry on in their own country they would be nailed to a f@#*#n wall.
Take everything off them except the clothes on their backs and bounce them straight onto the boat and good luck.
@Jack Crabbe: ___ I doubt it, they’d be okay after bribing someone.
And that shows everyone just how easy it is to defraud our welfare system. It makes me sick to the teeth that it’s the working people of this country who will end up paying more and more to keep every scammer in their nice homes sitting on their fat arses while they laugh and laugh at how easy life is here for the people who choose not to work. When people in Ireland vote in a proper government , who will tackle this carry on , and stop voting in the spineless pigs we have now then things might change. Until then nothing will change. This country will always be a pushover for any Nigerians , Roma or any others who arrive here with no intention of working. You honestly couldn’t make it up!
@Gerry Lamont:
Name a party that will do as you say and I and many more would vote for them. All parties are afraid of the PC brigade. Apparently Higgins has the backing of the majority for a second term in office yet he is one of the most vociferous preaching multiculturalism.
Wow this pair are a great asset to the country. Not forgetting that we are not short of our own indigenous scammers also.
@Niall Conneely:
We all know we have our own scammers but as been said by numerous posters we don’t need to import more. If you are a tax payer is this where you want you taxes spent.
That money would have been better spent on our own homeless than Nigerian fraudsters living in luxury.
Prison is the costliest option. They should be made to do manual work for their local authority for minimum wage, with 50% deducted weekly until such time as the entire amount involved is recovered. Then they should be deported.
The total bill by all immigrants doesn’t cover what these types of people have stolen from the state. How many Christian/catholic Africans are here ‘saving’ the people of Ireland. Rip off merchants, and everyone gets in a tizzy when millions are forced to leave a war torn country started by the west. Sad days.
The big scam has been going on years, I know many back in the boom where he bought the house and she claimed lone parents and rent allowance to pay the mortgage!!
@Blah blah: ___ I hope you informed the authorities.
Well as a foreigner I should say that there are plenty of Irish people scamming the system too . Loads of “ single” mums claiming benefits.. example my neighbors. I pay a fortune for my apartment and they pay nothing . I work ,pay a huge tax bill and my twenty something year old neighbor who should be working sits in front of the tv all day … it is not foreigners only; they should really look into every case , because it’s a joke.
Is that the black magic thing
If ever proof was needed to show that the Irish taxpayer is being taken for a fool this is it. Official Ireland is so afraid of the PC brigade that it turns a blind dye. When it has to act like in this court case the response is pathetic. Imagine the sentence if an Irish committed such a crime in Nigeria or any African country. I wouldn’t expect a short or suspended sentence.
Add this to an asylum seeker on RTÉ last night saying she came because her boyfriend wasn’t nice to her.
Jaysus!
I am so sick and tired of seeing these migrants mooch off our state and people. My blood boils when I get asked by a foreign person for money…. It’s time this egg got cracked.
Boo bloody hoo, my childhood was tough, my child has autism, tough luck. People like this reinforce the dodgy image of Nigerians in this country. Bet the sentence would have been tougher if a white Irish family!!!
Gboboh’s action endanger all refugees and immigrants status and standing in Ireland who have nothing to do with his actions it also plays into the ilk of farage and his alt right nazis, bloody enraging seeing Gboboh’s get off so lightly for such a large scam, its not as bad a sean fitz patrick and the private banks scams but its bad alright, it will cost around 80k a year to jail Gboboh think its right he and his family should lose their status in ireland and make room for refugees and immigrants who follow the law
This has been going on for years! Th
You would get a tougher sentence for no tv licence deport them no jail that’s costing us more money
Not a word of them paying a cent back… ridiculous
Has Zappone started claiming the actual lower mileage to the Dail yet (she’s not using the shortest distance to calculate her ‘allowance’) €20,000 extra per annum adds up to a tidy sum.
at mike mcc..”"unemployed”"
its because we are irish.m
See AllQuestLtd.com, management team, Nigerian company, profile of Kenneth gbobab, KB, educated (or maybe all fake). This article says he worked under name Patrick Akim as IT Project Manager. KB’s field is in PM field who worked in two well known companies. Is it same person? Or just coincidence…
@Mar Ken: Good work Mar Ken, same guy, that website even has his Celbridge “home” as the address for their Irish office. He graduated in “International Relations” from Westminster University. There is a University of Westminster but no Westminster University.
The above article doesn’t make it plain how people who came from Nigeria were immediately able to obtain social welfare. The state requires a minimum domicile in Ireland for everyone before anyone is eligible for jobseekers…even Irish citizens who left Ireland and then returned. My question is how did this couple receive all the social welfare they did without having to prove minimum domicile in the state?
Don’t blame the scammers. Scammers do as scammers do. Blame the Irish liberal morons who insist on permitting all sorts of criminals into this country. Anyone who disagrees with their Marxist no border ideology or points out the stupidity of their crass lala land nonsense is labeled a racist, Islamophobia, fascist etc.
Where are the residence against racism now?
Hi All, I have read all the comments from most of you guys. Interesting to note that everyone is shouting crucify them and not stepping back to think that they are human beings who happens to have taken the wrong path in life. Everyone deserves a second chance in life. I’m sure most here have skeleton in their cupboards as well but the difference is they are not exposed yet. The fact that these two have committed fraud does not mean everyone from Africa is a fraudster. I know and have heard about Irish fraudsters in other countries and even still operating here in Ireland. I do not support them neither I’m I going to crucify them but pray they turn from their wicked ways.
I’m a proud African and a taxpayer since coming to this country 17yrs ago and in those years, I’ve met lovely Irish people and also very wicked ones but never have I painted all with the same brush. One thing you guys must understand is that criminality is what people chose to be involved in and not about race, colour, gender or nationality so stop and think before you comment. Thank you and God bless this country and Africa.
And its going to cost us more to jail them – JUST HAVE THEM DEPORTED – YOU CAN BE SURE THEY TRY IT AGAIN – THEY DONT DERSERVE TO LIVE IN OUR COUNTRY
he could make big money by tutoring others into the art of defrauding the state.
@Tom Lacey: He should join fg so.
It’s going on for years,and it won’t stop these people are very smart,so get used to it
And the likes of myself told you’re not entitled to any social welfare because my wife earned too much,she’s a nurse if you’re wondering,maddening.
So, essentially getting paid €200k tax free a year to sit on his hole in prison, where he’ll be fed and watered as much as he wants! I’d nearly chance it myself
Report them. Pay the Nigerian government to lock him up….and sell the gaff to pay back what they owe. Sickening
@edelno5 .: Deport ffs
Not a single comment here about the greater fraud and theft being perpetrated by governments, banks, developers, ‘entrepreneurs’ etc. No, lads, when it’s foreigners, and black ones at that, the high horse is never high enough. No, I’m not excusing them, a scam is a scam, but the retribution sought by some of the posters here are WAY over the top. A little perspective wouldn’t go astray.
Fingerprint all welfare applicants. If you receive any money from the taxpayer you should give your fingerprints as a deposit. If you are genuine then you have nothing to worry about. We all have the ability to be dishonest in our lives when the time comes.
No word of them paying back a cent?! Bloody ridiculous.
Yep. Think he went to college in Ireland prior to working in Ireland likely from a wealthy Nigerian family with companies etc,.
Jeez fair play to them . We opened the floodgates. Why not try get what ya can for nothing
@Catherine Higgins: hey . Where’s the rest of my comment ??
Thats made my day… happy Friday..
he was not white and did not work in a bank
@Gerry Bambrick:
So?
Do they have to repay the money owed which is usually the practice in such cases not mentioned ?
Change the laws serious criminals lose their current status, have to reapply and hopefully deportation
Soft touch country is being fleeced
If we criticise her Ruth coppinger will accuse us of been racist this lady is still getting social welfare if this was australia she would be deported and why was she allowed in from Nigeria I don’t believe there is a war going on there
We must all agree in unequivocal terms that what these people did is terribly wrong and unacceptable in all ramification. It is unethical and immoral and such conduct must not be allowed to have a place in the Irish society. It must be totally condemned not because the perpetrators of the crimes are from Nigeria but because what is evil is evil and what is bad is bad and must not be commented upon on account of nationality or race.
In Ireland today, we are made to believe it is not a racist country. The law of Ireland forbids racial discrimination and hate speech. Unfortunately, reading between lines in most of the comments here are so racist and subjectively unfortunate. It once more brings out in some of the commentators what they feel about immigrants in this great nation. It rekindles migration issues and asylum seekers by nose diving into these matters instead of focus on the crime committed and justice served. A crime has no nationality. Most comments here are not focused on the crime committed by the said couple but on their nationality. There are Irish Americans in the United States committing mayhem there without Americans demonising the entire Irish society or asking for their waterloo. The department of justice is not only about justice but equality as well. Where now is the equality in these hate comments. If you want to kill a black dog you give it a black name such as”Black Jack” to justify it’s crucification as they did Jesus Christ, shouting crucify him crucify him. And so it is when it comes to issues of immigrants with some Irish people in this nation. The comments here are there for everyone to read as a lasting testimony to impressions of the human hearts towards some feelings about immigrants. White or black, Irish or Nigeian or Indian or Chinese, all men are created equal by God almighty. We all eat and go to the toilet. We all live and die. Black coloured white or Caucasians, life is life, a criminal is a criminal. The law does not discriminate or judge in colour or nationality. Justice has taken it’s course. It is no use using this unfortunate and unholy misdemeanours to purge out the bitterness and hate we carry in our hearts against foreigners. There are loads of Irish people in Nigeria and all over Africa. Africans do not carry the burdens of hate and discrimination as surmised in most of the comments here against the Irish people in African nations. No man is an Island. No body is perfect in life. If you think you are perfect, spread your wings and fly into the kingdom of God to see God face to face, eat and dine with the Lord Jesus, shake hands and come back here to earth with the photos and videos. Then we will know that he who has no sin or fault in life, must throw the first stone at the guilty. Can anyone do that? Here I rest my case.
How on earth could they apply for Welfare & get a PPS No. and a Public Service Card immediately upon arrival in the State???!!!
Absolutely madness! This is the kind of people that give a bad name to other foreigners that obey the Irish Law, pay our taxes and do everything by the book!
How on earth could they apply for Welfare & get a PPS No. and a Public Service Card immediately upon arrival in the State???!!!
Absolutely madness! This is the kind of people that give a bad name to other foreigners that obey the Irish Law, pay our taxes and do everything by the book!
What was the mitigation factor in relation to the male getting 12 months suspended?
I didn’t see any!
He’s already entitled to remission so why the suspension of 12 months?
Just keep working like a dog and pay your taxes while your government stands over you with a whip
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