However, he said he had a trip abroad planned for Sunday and contacted the hospital to rearrange before changing his mind.
Instead, he decided to ask his GP to check he would be fit to fly so soon after the scan.
“Then an email comes through and the email says that I need to complete this questionnaire [to prove my nationality],” he said.
At the bottom of the email chain it said his attempts to change the appointment date “sounded suspicious”.
“I think in their mind as soon as they heard… the accent, the name, ‘out of the country’… they just put everything together incorrectly,” he said.
Mr Oloko told RBH he was a British citizen and an elected councillor, but said they responded by saying they were researching whether a person had to be a UK resident to be a councillor.
