…Documents Expose Her

An orchestrated campaign of blackmail and slander against the Keyamo family has collapsed under the weight of incontrovertible evidence. The accuser, American-Ugandan citizen, Haidi Zaineb Rambo, now stands exposed as a manipulative opportunist who sought to extort and defame the very people who had extended overwhelming kindness to her and her family during a period of crisis.

Findings revealed that Zaineb re-entered the lives of the Keyamos in mid-2023, shortly after the appointment of Festus Keyamo SAN as Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development. She reconnected with his sister, Ruth Keyamo Omonigho, whom she had known years earlier but had been estranged from since 2020. Under the guise of rekindled friendship, she pleaded for assistance with her mother’s worsening health condition and her own dire financial state in New York. Claiming she could no longer afford medical bills or even house rent, she begged Ruth to intervene.

Ruth, unable to meet the request alone, turned to her family for help. At her urging, Minister Keyamo met Zaineb in New York during a working visit and rendered financial support that enabled her to relocate her mother to Uganda. However, as her mother’s condition deteriorated, Zaineb again appealed for help. The Keyamo family, moved by compassion, facilitated her and her mother’s travel to Nigeria for advanced treatment, covering logistics, medical bills, and accommodation.
Zaineb’s mother was admitted to ASK Medical and Diagnostics in Maitama, Abuja, upon arrival on December 22, 2023, according to verifiable hospital records. Documents also confirm the family bore the full cost of treatment, with receipts showing payments north of N20m for Zaineb’s own medical care and her mother’s at the facility.

When ASK Medical could no longer manage the case due to the complexity of her condition, diagnosed as severe heart disease and end-stage kidney failure, the patient was transferred to Zenith Medical and Kidney Center (ZMKC). The Keyamos continued to fund dialysis and medications with payments topping another N20m.

Despite all efforts, Zaineb’s mother passed away on 22 May 2024, with the official cause listed as septic shock. Throughout this period, the Keyamos not only shouldered medical costs but also extended emotional support, with Ruth making regular visits and attending to funeral arrangements. The family paid for the embalming, mortuary, casket, and repatriation of the corpse to Uganda. Ruth was even seen accompanying Zaineb on shopping trips and to burial planning meetings.

Beneath this surface of humanitarian support, deeper deception emerged. Zaineb according to findings, had entered Nigeria not only with her mother but with a four-year-old boy, Prinston. She initially claimed the boy was her nephew, only to later switch the story, saying he was her biological son. Pressed for adoption papers or parental consent, she failed to produce any. Under pressure, Zaineb allegedly admitted to forging a Ugandan passport for the boy and confessed to faking the signature of James Marino, her ex-partner and father of her daughter in the U.S., to obtain a visa for her teenage daughter. These actions raised grave concerns of child trafficking.

Even her age was falsified. Zaineb paraded a passport showing 1990 as her birth year, while authentic documents pegged her actual date of birth at 1980, according to documents in her possession —exposing yet another attempt to manipulate perception for sympathy and financial gain, creating the illusion of a young, struggling single mother.

Recognising the signs of a possible child trafficking offense, the Keyamo family took steps to involve the Nigerian Immigration Service. When faced with authorities, Zaineb refused to cooperate, even going so far as to hide international passports in a chair to avoid deportation. It took official intervention to deport her and the trafficked child to Uganda on 7 June 2024. The mother’s remains were sent on a separate flight the next day with all the necessary documentation and financial support, even after her deception had been uncovered. Additional funds were even sent via the Ugandan Airline country manager, according to findings.

The final straw came when Zaineb, rather than showing gratitude, began demanding extravagant funeral funds, starting with a ₦5 million casket and themed burial clothes for extended family in Uganda. When the Keyamos rightly drew the line and refused to fund such excesses, she resorted to emotional blackmail and threats. Her demands, captured in WhatsApp chats and photos, escalated until it became clear that she had no intention of leaving Nigeria unless a hefty sum was paid.

Months after her deportation, Zaineb reportedly contacted a family acquaintance named Sani, admitting that the US government had helped her return to America after being stranded in Uganda for five months. According to accounts, she shamelessly begged for more financial help, and when denied, launched her campaign of blackmail against the Keyamos. Her subsequent false accusations, now proven baseless, were an apparent attempt to force the family into submission through public defamation. Yet, her lies have fallen flat, overwhelmed by documented evidence of the family’s integrity and unwavering support throughout her ordeal.

This is not the common story of a wronged woman, it is the brow-raising story of a deceitful individual who sought to exploit the goodwill of a well-meaning family for personal gain. Every document, from hospital receipts to immigration reports, confirms one unshakable truth: the Keyamo family acted with humanity, decency, and generosity throughout. Unfortunately, what they received in return was betrayal.

The facts speak for themselves. The documents are damning. And the attempt at blackmail? Dead on arrival. The evidence is overwhelming. The defamer has been exposed. The truth, firmly supported by evidence, sufficiently makes this more than obvious.