Nigerian pastor jailed for 9 years in Britain’s biggest ever education scam

Sam Kayode, tagged a ‘dishonest, greedy’ and possibly bigamous school accountant, has been jailed for 9 years for stealing £4.1m of taxpayers’ money – and lavishing it on 4 women, Dailymail reports. Kayode, 59 – a part-time pastor – spent the cash on his real wife, a second ‘wife’ and two alleged mistresses.

He bought luxury cars including a Mercedes, an Audi TT and an Infiniti, and is also feared to have sent much of the money to Nigeria. Despite overwhelming evidence, he tried to blame the theft on his late wife and an office junior. He claimed they conspired to smear him by transferring the money to his joint account in revenge for his adultery.

Kayode spent 7 years looting the accounts of Haberdashers’ Aske’s state schools in south London. During those years, he’d lock himself in his office to work late, after arriving in a Mercedes, wearing £500 Gucci shoes and carrying an LV briefcase…. jst to keep a very low profile….