Mother of Invention
Rod Liddle gives full vent to his feelings in The Sunday Times about Ruth Nabugazi someone who has been convicted of benefit fraud and roundly abuse the asylum process - yet plans to challenge efforts to throw her out of the country once Nabugazi has served her prison sentence.
The London Evening Post also covered the story and the photo above is of one of Nabugazi's palatial homes in Kampala.
Mother of all asylum claims (Rod Liddle - The Sunday Times)
A Ugandan woman, Ruth Nabuguzi, defrauded the British taxpayer of £4.1m by claiming benefits for 100 children.
I suppose a few questions will have been asked by the time she’d claimed for, say, 50 or 60. This will have been put down to cultural differences in Africa, where quite possibly women have thousands of children. By the time it got to 80, I dare say the authorities were telling each other it was widely known that Ugandans have shorter gestation periods and mass multiple births are common. It’s a miracle she was caught at all. But she is serving six years in prison.
What does she intend to do once she’s out? Yep, apply for asylum — because the “disgrace” back home would be too much to bear. Whereas over here we couldn’t give a monkey’s, I suppose.
London Evening Post
Five Ugandans who were on Thursday found guilty of defrauding Her Majesty’s Government by falsely claiming benefit in hundreds of different names may have the property they bought or built from proceeds of this fraud confiscated by HMG. Sentencing them to a total of 19 years in prison, Judge Nicholas Ainley sitting at the Croydon Crown Court in East London has ordered for a confiscation hearing under the Proceeds of Crime legislation. Britain is this morning waking up to the fact that for so many years its kindness to people who arrive in the country claiming to have undergone all sorts of torture and terror at the hands of African dictators has indeed been milked by the claimants who have greatly benefitted from it.
The Ugandan fraudsters led by Ruth Nabuguzi have for the last 20 years been claiming unemployment, cancel tax and child benefit which has led her to build multi-million homes in Kampala while living in a council flat here in London. Said to have been the ringleader, Nabuguzi arrived in Britain 21 years ago and claimed she feared for her life in Uganda. After being granted exceptional leave to remain in the United Kingdom, Nabuguzi soon realised she could make a lot of money by simply claiming asylum.
As the majority of Ugandan asylum seekers braved the bitter British winter to go and earn a living, Nabuguzi chose to re-apply for asylum, this time using a different name, that of Jane Namusisi. She mysteriously produced two kids she claimed as her own and all were granted leave to remain. Five years later she once again applied for asylum under the name of Pauline Zalwango and, yes you guessed it, had three children with her. All were granted leave to remain and given unemployment, council tax and child benefit.
