On November 25th
2015 a Nigerian deportee amongst the fifty Nigerians deported share account of
his story according to Detained Voices.
The United Kingdom has
deported 50 Nigerians after having committed different offences while in the
country.
The deportees made of 44
males and six females arrived into Nigeria aboard a chartered B767 aircraft
belonging to PITAN Airways.
The federal government had
recently expressed concern over the UK’s plan to deport some 29,000 of its
nationals demanding that due process be followed before any Nigerian is sent
back from the UK.
“Basically, the charter
flight is for today and they’re trying to get us on the flight. But here lies
the problem.
“We all know very well,
according to the rules anyway, if they want to take us they have to get travel
documents for all of us. But then they have already issued travel certificates
for everybody without anybody actually signing for it. How does that work?
“Obviously there have been
allegations this week against the home office and against the Nigerian embassy
about, you know bribery, to make sure they issues travel documents for people
without their knowledge, and you understand what I mean.
“According to the
information we are getting, each person gets £3000. Basically, all of us have
been sold to the British Government to do whatever they want to do to us. We’ve
been very calm. We’ve asked them can you get the home office to explain how
they’ve got travel documents for us when we didn’t sign for it. Obviously
that’s fraud because I haven’t signed for anything.
“How are we supposed to
follow the rules and regulation when those rules and regulations of the Home
Office clearly don’t apply to them. They actually break the law on a regular
basis. They bribe people on a regular basis.
“Half of the people on the
flight today have family here. They shouldn’t be going to Nigeria in the first
place. I left Nigeria 17 years ago, right, I was 9 years old when I left
Nigeria. I had only really lived in Nigeria for 6 years. And you are telling me
is okay you can go back there. To where? My dad passed away last month. Who am
I going back to?
“Who am I going back to? My
sisters here my brothers here. My niece has very big health problems. She’s got
heart issues. They’re in London. She needs help on a regular basis. My sister
cannot handle it. We are just sat in the room basically. We are waiting for the
officers to forcefully remove us. We are just in the room waiting because at
the end of the day, they haven’t answered our questions.”
But what is your offence? what did you do in UK?
ReplyDeleteNaija instead of them to behave themselves, u don't have passport and you are misbehaving.
ReplyDeletePple should stay out of trouble with all that is going on around the world, the British would deport any national outside British for any little offence
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