70 bound for deportation from Britain

It has been officially confirmed that some 70 Sierra Leoneans have been ordered out of the United Kingdom by the British Immigration Department after proving to have no legal status to stay in the country.

British and Sierra Leonean immigration officials have already signed a Memorandum of Understanding in London to have them deported back to Sierra Leone following a long drawn battle spanning over two and half years.

Sierra Leone Chief Immigration Boss, Kholifa Koroma said all 70 have exhausted all legal chances to stay in the United Kingdom and were left with no option but to go back home.

Kholifa and four of his men have spent the last two weeks in London where they have been reviewing their respective cases with their British counterparts.

The immigration boss said a lot of them were people not of Sierra Leonean origin and were proved to be of different nationalities – and that fewer than 25 were genuine cases found to be absolutely in conformity with immigration rules in the United Kingdom.

He said a good number of them having spent the better part of their time in prison, having completed jail sentences and brought to centres in the United Kingdom, offered to go.

“A lot of them are happy to go back home considering the deplorable and miserable living standard they have been subjected to live in in the United Kingdom,” he confirmed.

Sierra Leone High Commission, United Kingdom

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