08 December 2008
Nigerian parasites exploit weak Irish system
A joint operation by gardai and the Department of Social and Family Affairs has uncovered social welfare fraud involving more than €2.2m in false claims by asylum seekers so far this year.Figures obtained by the Irish Independent last night showed that one Nigerian man and his wife had illegally claimed almost €33,000 a year in social welfare before the racket was discovered.
A snapshot of some of the biggest abuses include :
- A Nigerian woman who applied for asylum here in 2003 and was granted refugee status in 2005 and who was subsequently found to have a multi-entry visa for the UK, which she sought while living in Lagos. She had previously claimed in her asylum application that she had been forced to flee from Nigeria. She is still living here in receipt of rent allowance of €1,143 a month and payments of €245.80 weekly.
- A Nigerian man was stopped in Belfast on his way to Dublin, had two Nigerian passports, one which gave him permission to live in Ireland and the other to reside in the UK. He was registered to live here with his Nigerian wife on the basis that they had an Irish-born child but he had also been granted the right to live in the UK on the basis of a marriage to a Portuguese woman. He works in the UK but he and his wife claim social welfare benefits of €32,677.60 a year from the Irish State.
- Another Nigerian man was stopped in Belfast while in transit to Birmingham. He had been here to collect his monthly social welfare benefit of €2,240. He is suspected of sub letting a house in Longford and is stated to have left the country in 2005.
Independent
Few countries are as riddled with chancers, scammers and general parasites as Nigeria. Even other heavily troubled African nations are cautious of them. If our society's leaders had even an ounce of common sense between them they would've seen these people coming and slammed the door in their face.
But if that happened the liberals would cry: "Not all nigerians are scammers! Some are really fleeing persecution! Racism!!", which, whilst the first part of that is factually true, is overall an ignorant and naiive view. Most Nigerians dont leave because they are being persecuted, they leave looking to make a quick buck. Ireland is selected for it's overflowing wealth and willingly naiive population, not any other reason. Nigeria is also not a nation that we owe any assistance. If reaching out a helping hand to a needy few from a failing society such as Nigera is going to open our own society up to a host exploiters, wreckers and destabilisers - then we'd be fools to ever extend that hand.
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