Mum and daughter lose fight for asylum

November 24, 2009

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Rose Jane Njoki Wanjohi and her daughter Natale who are facing deportation to Kenya.

A MUM and her two-year-old daughter have lost their fight to stay in the country.

Rose Jane Njoki Wanjohi, 43, and Natale were put on a plane at Heathrow and deported to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

The move comes despite dozens of friends in Greater Manchester campaigning for a last minute reprieve.

Last week, Jane and Natale were told that their deportation had been halted pending a review – but immigration officials rejected their appeals.

Friend Richard Bushell, 78, said: “We feel very sad that our moves to keep them in the UK didn’t have any impact, but it seems we were up against a losing battle.

“We can only hope that they are able to make a decent life for themselves in Kenya and, on behalf of Rose, I’d like to say thanks to everyone who supported them.”

The teacher claimed she fled Kenya in fear of her life after her husband joined an outlawed sect. She was pregnant with Natale when she arrived in Hyde, Tameside, in December 2006 but her application for asylum was rejected earlier this year.

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BlueBoy1 , Bolton (24/11/2009 at 12:44)

Lets hope that this is the start of many similar storys

Mike S, Manchester (24/11/2009 at 12:51)

I watched some of Children in Need on Friday and was shocked to learn that there are over 4,000,000 children living in poverty in the UK. Let's close our borders to asylum until we can look after our own citizens. I have very little sympathy for "asylum seekers" who have crossed several safe countries before reaching our shores. Genuine asylum seekers should go to the nearest safe country. Kenya is in East Africa. You have to cross most of Africa and Europe before reaching the UK.

David , DENTON MANCHESTER (24/11/2009 at 13:10)

Great News i do hope to read many similar stories too.

BlueBoy1 , Bolton (24/11/2009 at 13:15)

Mike S - well put, can't agree more

Squire of Newton, Newton nr. Hyde (24/11/2009 at 13:16)

I hope they are dispatched from this country forthwith ...this has gone on long enough.

Sam Anderson (24/11/2009 at 13:16)

Well said BlueBoy!

bufte, mcr (24/11/2009 at 13:18)

BYE BYE

peter smith (24/11/2009 at 13:22)

Good luck to the lady and her son but decision to return them to Kenya was correct. She should have sort asylum in the next safe place to her Kenyan home and that certainly isn't Manchester. I think the vast majority of the population is fed up to the back teeth of these bogus asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. I would guess that 99% of asylum seekers are not fleeing war and danger but are in fact economic migrants. Controlled immigration is needed sometimes but not when the country is already broke with 3 million unemployed. The UK simply cannot look after any more, our own people are suffering enough hardships themselves.

citycentre, manchester (24/11/2009 at 13:23)

Mike S

What measure of poverty was used? The one favoured by pressure groups here is a proportion of average income, which means that if the nation gets richer the number of children in poverty actually increases. Unlike the measure used in some African nations which is more closely related to whether the children are likely to die of malnutrition or have to drink unfit water.

rocketmanu, Ex Old Trafford (24/11/2009 at 13:28)

Well said Mike S, Manchester.
We have to look to charity to help our citizens. We HAVE to pay to keep and process asylum seekers (a lot of whom are bogus and dissapear once here) through our taxes.
You have a good point that these people travel 1000's of miles through safe countries to get here, the softest place in the world for asylum seekers and make a huge fuss when told that they don't qualify and have to go.
This asylum seeker may have dozens of friends supporting her, there's millions of people that don't. If we have to abide the law then they should too!
This is no racist chant it's something I feel strongly about!

Stevedore, Quayside (24/11/2009 at 13:30)

This is the right decision. This woman when pregnant "fled" a safe African state and crossed the continents of Africa and Europe (contrary to International law) to reach the UK where she was seeking asylum because her husband had joined a sect in Kenya. Its as laughable as me fleeing the UK and trying to claim asylum in Australia because my wife had joined the Church of Scientology.

Andanotherthing, Mcr (24/11/2009 at 14:11)

Mike S, Manchester
24/11/2009 at 12:51

Kenya was part of the British Empire and is still, I think, a member of the CommonWealth. Maybe Rose thought we were a decent society that had many links and ties with her homeland ?

Anthony , Accrington,Lancashire (24/11/2009 at 14:22)

Our own people should take preference over outsiders from Europe The Middle East Africa and beyond;when are we going to close our borders restict movement and look after our own? No wonder immigrants/asylumseekers/refugees laugh at and see the UK as a soft touch joke on them(and this country bows to it too!).

Dukinfield Blue, Manchester (24/11/2009 at 14:25)

I am so pleased with this decision. we have to act now against economic migrants who pose as asylum seekers. As many have posted on here, she didnt stop at the first "safe" haven and decided to keep going until she found a country which would shower her with many free benefits (Money, housing, clothing, education etc etc). Lets hope this is the begining of a major crackdown on these people, we cannot afford to continue in this manner as there is not enough money to look after real British citizens (not racist just factual) who were concieved, born and brought up here, never mind the flood of migrants looking for a free and easy life.

Brook Lands (24/11/2009 at 14:25)

What a caring sharing bunch entirely lacking in empathy for a fellow human being.

I hope you lot going on about poor children in the UK gave at least £50 to Children in Need seeing as it's such an important issue to you.

david duck (24/11/2009 at 14:29)

The fact of the matter is these people who enter this country with no legal status and have crossed many nations to get here do so for the many state handouts they receive from our goverment. Stop the handouts and they will not come.

Mark, South Manchester (24/11/2009 at 14:35)

Ah yes Kenya, another country Britain and the Imperial British East Africa Company bled dry.
All to make good old Blighty so much richer, eh? And another part of the Empire forced to import expensive goods from Lancashire factories too - thus providing jobs and the wealth to create schools, houses, town halls and fine buildings for good old Manchester folk!!

The lack of compassion & ignorance you read on here is quite sickening.

Stevedore, Quayside (24/11/2009 at 14:38)

Brook Lands

So you are more empathetic to the needs of bogus "asylum Seekers" who have no legal right to be in the UK than you have for the people of our overpopulated and overcrowded country many who live in poverty? I guess that your views are not shared by the majority of people and I think that you should hang your head in shame that you should think in such a way.

Stevedore, Quayside (24/11/2009 at 14:44)

david duck

Stop the handouts and they will not come.

Exactly, it just wouldn't be worth them illegally crossing several continents to get to the UK if there wasn't a pot of gold for them at the end of the journey.

Hellas (24/11/2009 at 14:51)

citycentre; Andanotherthing; Mark; Brook Lands - if you are so full of disgust for the people in this country, the British Empire and everything asociated with it, why don't you go and work as missionaries in these former colonial countries, why don't you go and help build villages, build wells, plant rice fields, etc? - give something back to what your ancestors almost certainly benefitted from. You are more-than-likely where you are because of them! If you're not going to go out there - shut your mouths and stop playing the 'holier than thou' cards!

Knowledge Poverty, WIPE OUT THE FERAL SINK ESTATE WHITE TRASH SCUM (24/11/2009 at 14:54)

Steve Dore,

I think YOU should hang your head in shame for not realising that people in our country live in poverty because of the way other people like you grasp for financial and other resources, and agitate for policies to support your grasping.

Don't you dare sit there, smug, on your high horse and imagine that poverty - wherever it exists - isn't caused by you, by me, by everyone else, and that we should take responsibility for it.

Or are you about to tell me about all the good work you're doing for the Great British Poor, are you? I doubt it.

Stevedore, Quayside (24/11/2009 at 15:00)

Knowledge Poverty, WIPE OUT THE FERAL SINK ESTATE WHITE TRASH SCUM

What a total and utterly stupid rant you have made when you know absolutely nothing about me. Where is your evidence for the accusations you have made about me. I suggest you put up or shut up. And by the way, what has your rant got to do with the the topic of this news story, illegal immigrants?

Hellas (24/11/2009 at 15:03)

Knowledge Poverty - I don't think you should be aiming that at Stevedore, that's not what he was saying.

Andy., Bury (24/11/2009 at 15:04)

Well you might at least acknowledge you're talking out of your bum when it comes to asylum and international law stevedore.

Knowledge Poverty, The Range (24/11/2009 at 15:10)

I'm sorry you're upset Steve.

It's just you've got this silly notion that the 'problem of bogus asylum seekers' is somehow a distraction from dealing with 'our overpopulated and overcrowded country many who live in poverty'. Problems which everyone - people, business, Government - are working SO hard to eradicate.

I 'guess' my views just aren't shared by the majority though. The majority, apparently, being you.

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