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category dublin | racism & migration related issues | news report author Tuesday August 14, 2007 13:59author by krossie - On behalf of RAR Report this post to the editors

Great's Family deported

Just got news through that the Van has taken the family away

Lennihen's macho credentials as new minister are well proven through the deportation of
Great Agbonlahor is a 6-year-old autistic boy - along with his twin sister Melissa and his mother Olivia - to Nigeria, where he will have no chance of receiving the treatment he needs.

The family were taken away about 14.50 or so today just after they reported to the GNIB without belongings as they were. more info to follow I hope.

A last minute attempt to obtain a high court injunction failed earlier in the day.

DISGRACE

- I HATE the ass holes that run this country

kp

author by Tommy - ?publication date Sun Dec 14, 2008 03:45author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Thank god the little great boy has finally given the all clear to go home to his native land, he deserves a chance to live in a country that has been blasted in the press as been corrupt, but in actual fact is a lovely place full of vibrance and culture.
He will be able to enjoy life now and can leave the trappings of a welfare state behind,his mommy will find a good job and her repatriation money will go a long way in naija.
I think instead of making a big deal out of the inevitable , people should give thanks to the autorities for bringing a nightmare to an end, because this poor family were unsure where the wanted to live whether it be Italy or Ireland.
Well at least they are home now on a free ticket, more power to them , and lets hope that GREAT will be granted a holiday visa to visit his school chums in later years.

GREAT GREAT NEWS

author by Ravpublication date Thu Aug 16, 2007 23:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I know I will come across as incompassionate, but there is almost no proof of suffering endured by people who are returned to Nigeria (their homeland in the case of adults) after being rejected in the Irish asylum process.

I will remind people of a Sunday Tribune special feature 18 months ago approx when a reporter and photographer travelled to Lagos and met with with people who were repatriated to Nigeria.

The two-week, eight-page coverage was ostensibly to show how horrid the Irish asylum process is but it had the counter effect... it showed that aside from living poorly in a poor country, none of the fundamental threats to the rejected asylum seekers lives, that they had claimed to exist when seeking asylum, actually existed. At least two families lived comfortably. Others lived poorly but it is a remarkably poor country. Poverty alone is not sufficient qualification to be granted asylum. Let us not forget that it is a process reserved for those truly in need.

Surely there is an inherent racism in the claim that Nigerians cannot return home and hope to fix the many problems that exist in their own country.

author by Deirdre Clancypublication date Thu Aug 16, 2007 09:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It is sad to hear about Great. Given the attitude of the Government (and the judiciary, really) toward the autism of Irish children, I suppose it's hardly surprising that Great wasn't a priority. It's shameful. Many autistic children, with the right intervention early on, turn out to live independent and fruitful lives. I heard a female engineer (Canadian) interviewed once on the radio who had been a severely autistic child and still had autism, but was very high-functioning and happy, and able to articulate what autism meant in terms of perception. It's wrong for Government to deny these children the right to fulfill what has actually been proven by some (with the right educational methodology) to be excellent potential.

Yes, we're living in a fairly blinkered country at the moment. In various ways, people voted in the election on the economy at home and the illusion of infinite and endless prosperity, over the human life and human rights of those regarded as foreign to our culture.

author by D3publication date Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:32author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The irish people voted overwhelmingly to deny citizenship to all children born in this country.
We are a racist people led by a racist government.
A hell of a lot has to change before people like Great receive justice or even charity in ireland.

Lenihan is, in my opinion, an even greater threat to democracy than McD ever was.
He is humourless, hard-hearted and nervous - a bad combination.

author by im really sadpublication date Wed Aug 15, 2007 09:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

why would they send back a child with autism some where he does not even know and they will have no homes the night after they went they only get a hotel for one night and what sort of people are the government there making people homless these people cant stop this happening and they will have no money no treatment great needs and people waiting 3 hours out side to find out if olvia and her twins will be alright!

now its absolutly terable that the gornment are doing this and i saw everyone at the protest having tears to there eyes the to children are not even from nigera and what have they done to deserve this?
like why would they send them back somewhere they will get battern and hurt starved thisty and hot?

really all of us are never going to stop on great melissa and olivia they are people just like us remember u wud not like to be sent back now plz say prayers for great and family that there safe

thanks for your attention

author by Irish and ashamed - WSM (pers cap)publication date Tue Aug 14, 2007 17:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This is yet another example of the disgusting incompassion of the Irish government and the institutionalised racism inherent in its policies.
The above comment is typical of the ill-informed,small-minded attitude of so many who have ought the line of the government and right wing media in relation to asylum seekers who have as much right to live in places such as Ireland as we do.
You say "Thank God" for Brian Lenihen?Maybe you should follow your Chrisitan fatth a little more closely and show some charity and compassion to those seeking "room at the inn"
Shame.

author by C.publication date Tue Aug 14, 2007 15:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If the rules were not adhered to then there is recourse under law, saying that Mr
Lenihan has not really impacted in Mc Dowell's Dept, has he?

The movement away from advocacy and funding of services to people applying for
asylum was matched by a refusal to countenance any application unless it first went
through the desk of the minister. there has been no anounced overhaul of the blatant
racist policy of the former minister nor investigation into the methodologies of his dept.
Other issues of concern were the refusal of work visas to Romanian and Bulgarian
peoples, and the huge publicity round the COSC project which NGO's are claiming
to be inherently flawed.

Has the family a good solicitor- cos Brian May have to bring them back,
his predecessors methods were highly questionable.

http://www.justice.ie

[The prison officers are getting pissed off too- but thats another thread]

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