A RESPONSE TO A CHILD TRAFFICKER AND A CHEAP BLACKMAILER CALLED ZAINEB HAIDI K. RAMBO

My name is Ruth Keyamo Omonigho. I am the younger sister to Festus Keyamo SAN. I have been a long time friend of one Haidi Zaineb Rambo.

We knew ourselves some 6-7 years ago through a mutual friend in New York. Somehow we lost contacts around 2020/2021 during the COVID period.

However, she reconnected with me sometime August/September of 2023 when my eldest brother Festus Keyamo was appointed as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, she congratulated me and we began talking again, and she even became close to other members of my family.

At that point she bitterly complained to me about the failing health of her mom and how she has spent so much on her financially and as such could no longer even afford paying for her house rent in New York.

She said she wants to take her mom back to Uganda her home country since she was critically ill, but the resources are not even there to do that.

She appealed to me to assist her but since I didn’t have enough, I had to plead with other members of my family including my eldest brother Festus Keyamo to assist. Just around this period too, my brother, was attending a program in New York. I gave her his number and told her to reach out to him, introducing her to him as my friend.

The picture of their meeting in NY is attached. After explaining her situation to him, my brother assisted her and her sick mother financially to Uganda.

While in Uganda, the mom’s health situation worsened and she again reached out to me to help.

She said they were stuck in Uganda with no proper medical treatment for the mom and no finances. It was at this point I again sort the assistance of my brother to step into the issue and assist to bring her and her mom to Nigeria for proper treatment both in terms of logistics and finances. He wrote relevant letters inviting them. He was initially very reluctant, but I was able to persuade him.

When leaving Uganda with her mom, she brought with her a four year old boy named Prinston and a 24 year old man named Nsubuga Douglas (passport and picture attached). She claimed that the four year old boy is her nephew, the son of her sister, while the 24 year old man is her cousin.

Upon arrival in Nigeria, on December 22nd, 2023, we took her and the mom straight to ASK MEDICAL AND DIAGNOSTICS, MAITAMA as she too arrived very sick where treatment commenced immediately. They were discharged about a week later and then the mom was readmitted a couple of times up until March, 2024.

Below is a breakdown of some payments made to ASK MEDICAL AND DIAGNOSTICS and attached receipts that I could lay my hands on.

1. On the 28th of December, 2023, the sum of #676,250 was paid for Zaineb’s treatment (bill and receipt attached)

2. On the 19th of January, 2024, the sum of #3,905,260 was paid for the mom’s treatment (bill and receipt attached)

3. On the 15th of February, 2024, the sum of #2,432,310 was paid for the mom’s treatment (bull and receipt attached) and many more I could not lay my hands on.

At ASK MEDICAL, it was diagnosed that the mom has serious heart disease and kidney failure, a fact that she hid from my family all the while.

When ASK MEDICAL could no longer carry on with the treatment, we were referred to ZENITH MEDICAL AND KIDNEY CENTER, APO, where it was further diagnosed that the kidney failure was at the last stage. My family assisted her greatly in the treatment of the mom both financially and emotionally.

Payments were made for Dialysis every week along with medicines and other expenses (receipts attached).

The financial burden was so much on my family, but we could not abandon her and the mom at this point. I paid constant visits to the mom in the hospital (pictures attached). Some payments made to ZMKC for the mom’s treatment and receipts attached are as follows:

1. On the 23rd of April, 2024, the sum of #2,000,000 was paid (bill and receipt attached)

2. On the 6th of May, 2024, the sum of #2,000,000 was paid (bill and receipt attached)

3. On the 15th of May, 2024, the sum of #1,428,250 was paid. (bill and receipt attached)

4. On the 22nd of May, 2024, the sum of #2,000,000 was paid by Tunde Moshood, a close friend of the Keyamo family who generously helped out(receipt attached)

Unfortunately, after all of these treatments, the mom passed on on the 22nd of May, 2024. During this period, my brother who was out of the country made necessary arrangements for the body to be put in the mortuary.

Months into her stay in Nigeria however, and shortly before the death of her mom on May 22nd, 2024, I got a hint from Uganda that the four (4) year old boy is not her nephew as she claimed and the whereabouts of the boy’s parents were not known.

I tried to make her present proper consent letter and documents about the child from the parents of the boy or even reach out to them on phone or other means in order for me to confirm the legality of the boys stay in Nigeria but all efforts on my part proved abortive. She wasn’t forthcoming. Surprisingly too at this point, I noticed the boy is answering her Surname. When confronted, she changed the story and said the boy is her son. I asked her to produce valid adoption papers but she could not.

Upon much pressure she later confided in me that she forged papers to get a Ugandan passport for the boy and also forged the consent letter and signature of her husband and father of her 13-year old biological daughter in New York (with whom she has a case in court in New York) in order to obtain a Nigerian visa for the girl and bring her into Nigeria. The name of the girl is LAYAH and the father’s name is JAMES MARINO with phone number +1(212) ××××54. She hid this fact from me at the time she urged me to invite her and the daughter to Nigeria to look after the ailing mother.

She has also consistently presented a forged international passport indicating that she was born in 1990 in order to present the facade of a young, struggling single mother in need of assistance, whereas it was later discovered that her real date of birth is indeed 1980. (Documents attached). Having found out all of these, I became very worried and uncomfortable dealing with her so I told my family members and we immediately realized we are dealing with a suspected child trafficker and a fraudulent person.

I, as a friend and also putting into consideration her emotional state following the death of her mom, encouraged her to go back to Uganda with the little boy and the corpse of her mom so that she can be given a proper burial since the purpose of their being in Nigeria for the mom’s treatment is over.

I also advised her to handover the boy to his biological parents. We offered her all the financial and emotional support she needed.

A few of my family members and friends were even making arrangements to follow her to attend the mom’s funeral in Uganda.

As these plans were ongoing, she suddenly came up with an outrageous demand. She said she wants some huge some of money from my family so as to give the mother an ‘International Burial’.

She started by demanding a casket of not less than #5M (a screenshot of our WhatsApp chat attached), then we’ll have to make burial clothes for all her family members in Uganda and a host of other unreasonable demands. At this point, I was firm with her and bluntly told her that my family can only give her the basic assistance she needs for the mother’s funeral and that for her own good, she should leave with the little boy.

During all of these, I was still giving her all the emotional support she needed.

I went with her to buy the casket and traditional beads for the mom(pictures and videos attached), took her out for lunch and shopping on several occasions etc.

As the days went by, it became obvious that she was adamant and insisted on getting that huge amount of money from my family even after my family had magnanimously paid for the mortuary bills, casket, cargo fare and all other expenses surrounding the repatriation of the mom’s body to Uganda.

It was obvious that she was now holding us to ransome.

It was at this point I reported to the Nigerian Immigration Service who stepped into the matter to send her and the little boy back to Uganda, where they came from. All through this period, my brother was out of the country on official assignment.

She was uncooperative with the Nigerian Immigration Service and made all efforts not to leave the country with the little boy to the extent of hiding their international passports which were later discovered inside an old unused chair in her house(pictures and video attached.

She was finally deported back to Uganda on the 7th of June, 2024, and the remains of the mom followed on the 8th of June, 2024 with Ugandan Airline with a properly signed consent letter from her and other supporting documents (documents and videos attached). We even sent her some funds through the Ugandan Airline country manager to assist her in the mom’s funeral.

The cause of her mom’s death is SEPTIC SHOCK(Medical document attached).
The bottom line in all of these is that her stay in Nigeria having found out of her fraudulent and deceptive nature wasn’t a good image for my well respected family hence we made the proper move to hand her over to the appropriate authority.

Few months ago, she got in touch with a friend of the family by name Sani, explaining to him how she was stuck in Uganda for five months and how the United States government just assisted her back to United States of America.

She asked him to reach out to me to help her with more financial aassistance.

Mr Sani refused to respond to her and assist with her plea hence this attempt at blackmail and extortion on my brother and my entire family which has instantly collapsed.

So with all the help and kindness my family had shown to her and her family, what Justice is she talking about??

This is a case of THE VILLAIN WANTING TO BE THE VICTIM.

For us, this is a none issue. We shall issue no further statement about this matter.