UK: Lesbian woman from Nigeria attempts suicide shortly before Home Office tries to deport her
A lesbian asylum seeker attempted to take her own life in order to stop herself being deported from the UK.
British authorities, as well as other leaders, need to be targeting the serious threats posed by jihadists and Islamic supremacists, and assisting those in true need of refugee protection. While 34-year-old Nneka Obazee faces likely execution in Nigeria because Islamic jurisprudence sanctions the death penalty for homosexuality, Britain fails her, while repeatedly protecting and even advancing the interests of enemies of human rights and democracy. As Robert Spencernoted…
Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri’s preaching of hatred and jihad violence was so hardline that he was banned from preaching in Pakistan, but the UK Home Office welcomed him into Britain.The UK Home Office recently admitted Shaykh Hamza Sodagar into the country, despite the fact that he has said: “If there’s homosexual men, the punishment is one of five things. One – the easiest one maybe – chop their head off, that’s the easiest. Second – burn them to death. Third – throw ’em off a cliff. Fourth – tear down a wall on them so they die under that. Fifth – a combination of the above.”May’s government also admitted two jihad preachers who had praised the murderer of a foe of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. One of them was welcomed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.Meanwhile, the UK banned three bishops from areas of Iraq and Syria where Christians are persecuted from entering the country.400 Islamic State jihadis have returned to UK, only 54 have been prosecuted.
Also, the UK has been lenient on racist Muslim rape gangs who have destroyed the lives of up to amillion British girls.
The gay community in the UK is now rightly outraged over Nneka Obazee’s being abandoned by Britain, which should be protecting her human rights.
Nigeria is one of ten countries where gays are either imprisoned, flogged or put to death. Nneka’s 19-year-old stepson “was deported and is now arriving in Nigeria without his mother or a support network.”
“Lesbian woman from Nigeria attempts suicide shortly before Home Office tries to deport her”, by Molly Fleming, Independent, September 29, 2017:
A lesbian asylum seeker attempted to take her own life in order to stop herself being deported from the UK.Nneka Obazee, 34, was meant to be flown on a charter flight to her home country of Nigeria but she overdosed on pain medication which led to her hospitalisation, according to activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants.Ms Obazee was set to be deported along with her 19-year-old stepson on an 11pm charter flight on Wednesday back to her home country despite fearing for her life, causing outrage from the LGBTQ community.“When Nneka was made aware that she would be returned to Nigeria she was so frightened that she attempted to suicide and took an overdose which demonstrates how dire the situation would be for her if she was returned to Nigeria” a spokesperson for LGSM, who are in direct contact with Ms Obazee, told The Independent.Her step-son was deported and is now arriving in Nigeria without his mother or a support network.Ms Obazee came to the UK in March 2013 on a visit with her abusive husband and stepson and took the opportunity to run away for him while in the UK. It was only once in the country that she says she felt she was able to reveal her sexuality.For the past four years Nneka has been living in Manchester and is an active member of the cities LGBT+ community, organising with the queer migrant group African Rainbow Family.Ms Obazee has had her case rejected by the Home Office and failed two appeals tribunals. She is currently undergoing a judicial review.“Sexual identity is a very difficult thing to have to ‘prove’, not least when it has been the cause of significant trauma in the past,” LGBTIQ specialist senior caseworker at Asylum Aid, Rajiv Bera, told The Independent.Mr Bera added that he continually represents people who have exhausted their refugee status determination and appeals process without success but “With adequate representation and proper support, the same people have gone on to eventually win their cases”…..Leila Zadeh, director of UKLGIG, told The Independent that the organisation was concerned about Ms Obazee’s deportation: “We are concerned that too often people’s sexuality is disbelieved and asylum claims incorrectly refused. It’s also concerning that somebody can be removed from the country when there is a judicial review outstanding.”A spokesperson for Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants told The Independent: “Only two months ago we joyfully celebrated with our friend Nneka at London LGBT+ Pride and now all we can do is watch powerlessly as she is railroaded through an unjust and inhumane immigration system to face certain danger in Nigeria.”In 2013 Nigeria made same-sex marriage illegal and according to a report from Human Rights Watch the law is “used by some police officers and members of the public to legitimise abuses against LGBT people”.Anti-gay laws in Nigeria can lead to punishments including 14 years in prison to death by stoning and LGBTQ people are frequently faced with violence due to their orientation and gender identity.Ms Obazee is currently in Yarls Wood.A spokesperson for the Home Office told The Independent: “We do not routinely comment on operational activity.”
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