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| John Abraham |
John Abraham, 25, is currently in Colnbrook
Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow airport, west London and is due to be
deported to Nigeria on 8 March.
Abraham practically begged gay media
publication to do this article on his plight as it remains his last hope to
avoid being sent back where he fears he will face persecution and physical
attack.
He asked Gay Star News to identify him
as he said the danger to his safety would be no greater if he was deported – as
everyone in his community in Nigeria already knows he is gay. Abraham
said: ‘I left Nigeria in 2008 and came to Britain to study business
administration’.
‘But while I was here I introduced my
boyfriend to my cousin and she told my family. My father is a pastor and my
family has abandoned me and now the whole community
knows’.
‘I would be sent back if I was attacked
and persecuted but I also wouldn’t have any life as a gay man. I would prefer
dying to going back’.
Abraham said he also had a male partner
in Nigeria too, as a 19 to 20-year-old student, but his sexuality was not known
by others at that time.
Despite his current partner attending
court with him, asylum judges and officials have refused to accept he is gay,
Abraham claims.
His case was further complicated by his
arrest for ‘handling stolen goods’, which he says was actually an innocent
mistake as he was trying to help his friend.
Bisi Alimi, who is Africa director of
international LGBT charity Kaleidoscope and also from Nigeria, said that he had
met Abraham’s boyfriend and several other friends and believed him to be a
genuine gay asylum seeker.
But he said the UK asylum system
struggled due to stereotyped understanding of what lesbian and gay people looked
like.
Meanwhile he warned against sending
Abraham back to Nigeria, where homosexuality is criminalized. He said:
‘The situation in Nigeria is really bad. There is very strong, aggressive,
hate coming from there. We get reports even now of gay people being the victims
of police brutality and being harassed and abused by the community’
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True Nigerians dont want to have anything to do with such ppl. But I assure him that he wont be persecuted if he dont practice that act in satanic act Nigeria.Let him just play the goodboy on reaching Nigeria and there will be no cause for alarm. I know the UK love gays, lesbians and Homos. Let him show them his scorched ass as a proof that he is one and Cameron will grant him assylum for doing the right thing. Goodluck!
ReplyDeleteBefore you die if that is your option, repent JESUS IS LORD. homosexualism is a SIN. there is better life in Jesus.
ReplyDeleteJOHN ABRAHAM u still hv time to repent becos JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY THE TRUTH AND LIFE, so d earlier u turn to him now d the better 4 u.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe his claim of being gay.
ReplyDeleteI agree with JOHN ABRAHAM,thank up GOD uptil now gay and lesbian are still seen as a tabu. especially now that his face will be copy and past on differences medium.but come to think of it he is john from new testament and Abraham from old testament how did he get to become gay?i suggest he should be deported to any near by church weather in Lagos or Manchester.
ReplyDeletefagilola,dont come back here ooooo.....we go kiil u
ReplyDeleteYour a bastard, you can live and die a gay if you choose. How many death have you heard of in Nigeria and it was attributed to the individual being a gay or lesbian.
ReplyDeletethis guy is nuts?????>><L:"PO{{}{#$@
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