Nigerian migrant who claims ownership of 24 kids, gets €22,000 monthly child support from Germany

A Nigerian migrant named Jonathan A who lives in Germany is using German immigration law to obtain almost €22,000 per month in child support for the 24 children he claims to father.

On social media, he displayed a lavish lifestyle.

According to an investigative report by ARD-Kontraste and Rbb24-Recherche, Mr Jonathan, who is considered poor and “destitute” by German authorities and pays thousands of euros per month to support his so-called 24 children, lives a lavish life on Instagram and TikTok, where he constantly flaunts his fleet of expensive cars under the username Mr Cash Money.

German immigration law grants automatic citizenship to children of its citizens, regardless of whether they live in Germany. The law recognizes mothers and close relatives of these children as citizens.

Mr Jonathan has already racked up the number of his dependents to 94 persons including his 24 children, their mothers and close relations giving them easy access to the foreign citizenship which entitles him to a minimum of $22,500 to care for them. The Nigerian migrant still has two additional applications underway for children he claims to father

But the report titled “fake fathers” found out that many people like Mr Jonathan receive payments from the so-called mothers, as fees to file for their citizenship, as a gateway to a better life loaded with benefits for their children and opportunity to live legally in Germany.

“Sham paternity is about allowing people who actually have no prospects of staying in Germany to stay in Germany,” Axel Boshamer, an immigration officer told ARD-Kontraste and Rbb24-Recherche.

“These people are willing to pay money for this, usually to the person who takes on the fictitious paternity

He stressed that many women from West African countries were taking advantage of the porous law to occupy North Rhine-Westphalia.

Andreas Keppke, who co-wrote the report, told the media that Mr Jonathan alone benefited over a million euros from taxpayers’ money from the German government.