NEWS; Met Police reinstates Khafi after BBN gaffe

Khafi Kareem, the London Met police officer who
defied the force to feature on Big Brother Naija
(BBN) before appearing to sleep with another
contestant, says she has been asked to return to
work.
She returned to the UK penultimate week and
met with her superiors to discuss her conduct.
The Mirror of London quoted her yesterday as
saying she is returning to her beat.
“Work has been really great, we’ve been speaking
and communicating, they asked me when I’d be
coming back to work,” she said.
“I’m not sure when I’m going to go back yet – I
want to get back as soon as possible, I’m
passionate about keeping London safer.”
Kareem, 29, had caused outrage among senior
officers by appearing on BBN without
permission.
The Met confirmed that Kareem had asked for
permission to appear on the show but was
denied and that she had chosen to accept a
place in the house “without authority”.
Top brass at the force were to face further
embarrassment when the Londoner was shown
appearing to have sex on screen with fellow
contestant, Ekpata Gedoni, 31.
Defending her decision to accept the place on
the show without a final answer from the Met,
Kareem said she tried to get an answer out of
her bosses, but they didn’t get back to her.
She said: “I started to ask what the procedure is,
what would I do, I thought I might actually get
into the show.
“I wanted to do everything by the book even
though I didn’t know if I was in the show or not.
“I spoke to as many people as I was told to. I
was told to go to my commander; I explained
the situation, I told him I wanted time off – three
months off of work and the reason was because
I might get on Big Brother.”
Addressing her controversial romp under the
sheets with Gedoni, Kareem denies they slept
together, but confirmed the two are still in a
relationship, adding: “We are still together now –
I met someone in there and fell in love with him.
“I hope we will be together for a very long time.”
Kareem said she attended an audition for the
show in Nigeria in February in order to film
content for her YouTube blog, A Cup of Khafi,
which has more than 19k subscribers.