According to reports, some Nigerians are stranded in the UK after paying scammers posing as United Kingdom (UK) skilled worker visa agents for jobs that don’t exist.
An investigation by Sky News revealed that these job seekers paid huge sums of money to these agents to process their trip to the UK on skilled worker visas
One of the victims told Sky News on the narrow corridor of a food bank that she is currently destitute in the UK despite being promised a job. She said she touched down in the UK three months ago, after paying an agent in Nigeria £10,000 to arrange a job. Upon arriving in the country, she discovered there was no job for her.
The victim relies on food from a Nigerian food bank and revealed she did not make the application herself because it is difficult to differentiate real from fake in Nigeria.
She said: “It makes me feel as though I’m a fool. I would have done it myself but there are so many frauds on the internet (in Nigeria) you don’t know what’s real.
“I’ve always provided for myself. I’m a very hard-working, diligent person. So for me to be here depending on people to eat, coming to the food bank to get food, isn’t okay with me.
“There are so many. Dozens. I met a lot here and so many are still coming after I’ve come. There’s a big scam going on.”
While talking to Sky News, Mary Adekugbe, the founder of the Nigerian Community Centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, said she has been overwhelmed by the recent development.
She said: “About 15 of the 35-40 people who generally come to the weekly food bank have skilled worker visas. We are overwhelmed, people are desperate. It’s so worrying.”
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