California May Have Been Defrauded by Nigerian Chief for $Millions

Who would be dumb enough to fall for one of those scam emails claiming to be from a Nigerian prince? The moonbats running California might.

City Journal reports on the Medicaid revenues of Chief Nathan Ogbatue of Nigeria and California, who is CEO of the taxpayer-funded California Home Health Agency (CHHA):

In 2018, the agency received just $89,570. In 2022, CHHA pulled in nearly $4 million. Across the following two years, the company garnered over $17 million and $13 million, respectively.

In correlation with this,

[B]etween 2023 and 2024, he and his wife purchased [a] $2.7 million Riverside mansion, a $1.9 million beach house, and $1.4 million in other Riverside properties. In all, the Ogbatues acquired more than $7 million worth of property between 2023 and 2024.

Here’s why they call him Chief:

Ogbatue was crowned chief of Abatete, a southern Nigerian farming town, in a boisterous ceremony in 2012.

Chief Ogbatue has been bringing home the bacon:

He reportedly paid for a palace, roads, and renovations to the town’s civic center, which hosts multiple painted murals of the Ogbatues and sits beside two golden statues of the couple.

Villagers are grateful for his generosity. Two years ago, an outlet released a compilation of beneficiaries of Ogbatue’s philanthropy.

The villagers should be grateful to the US taxpayers who likely picked up the bill.

As City Journal previously reported, the state’s largest home health program is particularly vulnerable to scams. One expert estimated that up to 40 percent of all spending on that program is lost to fraud.

No wonder the number of home health agencies in California nearly doubled between 2019 and 2024.

Chief Ogbatue has a defense. Suspecting him of fraud is racist:

“All the white people that made more money than me, have you ever chased them?” he asked.

Not to worry; California is taking action. The Stop Nick Shirley Act will prevent oppressed migrants like Chief Ogbatue from being harassed by independent journalists.

EXCLUSIVE: A Nigerian chieftain billed Medicaid more than $36 million, then snapped up luxury properties in California and built a magnificent palace in Abatete, Nigeria—including a golden statue of himself.

The experts told us it has all the red flags for fraud. pic.twitter.com/P7qyuH3tbs

— Christopher F. Rufo (@christopherrufo) September 9, 2026

On a tip from cZwonderpig.

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