Few hours before they were bundled into the plane yesterday, one of the Nigerians deported from the UK spoke to Detained Voices, a site which shares stories, experiences and demands made by people held in immigration detention centres in the UK or those who have family members or partners in detention.
His story below...
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 bribary, to make sure she issues travel documents for people without their knowledge, 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 wants 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 doesn’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 it’s 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.Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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When Nigeria deported illegal west African migrants I don't hear any Nigerian cry foul or ask if the deportees had been issued travel documents.No Nigerian with legal status to stay/reside and law abiding was deported from the Uk
ReplyDeleteYou are correct no one with valid residence documents and without any criminal related offence will be deported.
DeleteThese deportees are talking rubbish. Whether the travel certificates were signed or not is not important. The fact is that you were in another country illegally. If you wanted dignity, you would have come back home on your own rather than wait to be deported and banned from UK for life!
ReplyDeleteYou have been in the UK for 17 years and you never bothered to make your stay legitimate?? You definitely can't make it right in any country as I see it. You can your family must have some real issues going forward.
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