UK authorities are insisting on deporting a gay Nigerian asylum seeker, despite him facing a possible death sentence and a campaign to let him stay in Bradford.

Olalekan M Ayelokun fled eight years from Nigeria eight years ago to escape persecution because of his sexuality.

A judge at Bradford’s Immigration Court stated he was not convinced Ayelokun was a gay and ordered his deportation by 6 October.
Mr Ayelokun was detained last Tuesday after a routine appointment at the UK Border Agency’s Waterside Court offices in Leeds.
Jason Feather, a friend of Ayelokun told Gay Star News: ‘He was arrested with only the clothes he was wearing, since then he did not have a change of clothes.

Yesterday he was moved to Collingbrook detention center in London, which is near the airport so he can be deported to Nigeria in only four days.

Feather and other friends of Ayelokun have set up a Facebook group, an online petition and a sample letter to MPs, to try and stop him from being forced onto a plane back to Nigeria on 6 October.

His solicitor, Mark Taylor, appealing to the High Court in a bid to get the judge’s decision reversed.

However, a UK Border Agency (UKBA) spokesman told the daily Telegraph and Argus that Mr Ayelokun had lived in the UK illegally, having overstayed a visit visa that expired in 2003.

The spokesman said: ‘He did not claim asylum until 2011, after he was arrested by UK Border Agency officers for using false documents to gain employment.

‘At no point has he been able to provide sufficient evidence of his sexuality and our decision not to grant him asylum has been upheld by an independent immigration judge.’

Taylor, Ayelokun’s solicitor, branded the judge’s decision in as ‘extraordinary’, claiming three former sexual partners and other friends from the gay scene gave evidence on oath that his client was gay.

He said: ‘This young man is undoubtedly gay. The reality is he will die if he goes back to Nigeria. Homosexuality is an offence there and there is Sharia law in some places, so the reality is that he will die.’

Jason Feather told GSN: ‘My friend Ola Ayelokun may face death if he is deported to Nigera.

‘It is also contradiction of David Cameron’s pledge in 2010 who said that: “those Africans seeking asylum on the basis of sexual orientation and at real risk of persecution in their home countries should be allowed to stay in the UK”.

‘We are hoping the Prime Minister will step in and keep his word.’

Homosexuality is illegal in the federal system of Nigeria and is punished in different states in varying degrees of severity.
Southern states punishes same-sex acts with up to 14 years imprisonment.

While northern states and punish same-sex acts with a minimum of 14 years imprisonment as well as a fine, and in twelve of the northern states punishments include flogging and death by stoning.

Omar Kuddus, chair of the British charity organization Gay Asylum slammed the UK authorities telling GSN: ‘To what length does a person have to go to prove he is gay?

‘The UKBA needs to understand that to be gay in Nigeria is a death sentence and as such how can they justify sending him back to his possible death?
‘
The UKBA must realize that they are playing with lives and as such must show compassion and understanding.’

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attempt foiled!!! so after leaving illegally for yrs and working with fake ID he was arrested then he claimed to be Gay?

UK should just leave him there o. Looks like his gayness started in the UK.
We don't want him dead yet in naija!

LMFAO..they want him to proove he is gay...ROTF....make dem go watch am now...lolololo

give him a gay boy friend lets see how gay he is

Proofing him to be gay should be the easiest thing to do. Just provide him with a male ashewo and put the video camera ON. Confirmed? Yes!!

Olalekan M Ayelokun



if its not gay assylum, its child molestation or incext. UK needs to deport all these people back to their caves or stop refering them as 'Nigerians'

This is just a simple case..
..Bring couple of macho-gay men to the scene make dem yansh am and see the reaction.. Lol

Н☹ω many gay dem don persecute for naija wey him dey run... Abeg..

Area_boy: give him a gay boy friend lets see how gay he is

stay there, that could be the least thing someone desperate for visa can do. A straight nigerian person can become more gay than elton john when a visa opportunity presents itself

OilSubsidy: Proofing him to be gay should be the easiest thing to do. Just provide him with a male ashewo and put the video camera ON. Confirmed? Yes!!

As a typical Nigerian guy man, even if he ain't gay (which I believe he's not) he will agree to fhuck or get fhucked to convince the UKBA of his sekshual orientation if he'll be allowed to stay in the UK

We will welcome him as soon as he arrives, but if he is caught being intimate with a fellow man, He will compulsorily face 14yrs in prison or death by street Justice. Say 'No!' to Gay.

@Billyonaire

You can make your point without name calling. Post hidden.

I wonder. Can most Nigerian men say NO to been 'yanshed' by a gay-man in exchange for 1M dollars??

Abeg na wetin be GAY?

justwise: @Billyonaire

You can make your point without name calling. Post hidden.

Thank you. Thank you, And Thank you. but no one should say Nigerians can change sexual orientation to gay to get VISA to UK. Thats some unforgivably shitty talk

Billyonaire: Thank you. Thank you, And Thank you. but no one should say Nigerians can change sexual orientation to gay to get VISA to UK. Thats some unforgivably shitty talk

....but that is what is happening here now and many have done before, so what is misleading about his comment?

justwise: [/b]

....but that is what is happening here now and many have done before, so what is misleading about his comment?

He generalized it, he didnt say 'a few', didnt say, 'many', his statement sounds, like all of us can. And I totally am upset with such generalists' philosophy, its crazy.

berem: Abeg na wetin be GAY?

Go adamawa go shout "iam gay" the will tell u the meaning.

Billyonaire: He generalized it, he didnt say 'a few', didnt say, 'many', his statement sounds, like all of us can. And I totally am upset with such generalists' philosophy, its crazy.

....just like you think that Nigerians abroad are washing plate to survive?

Make dem leave dah guy for dier o! Cos if dem deport am comack naija ehn...? Ah! Omo, e go red for am o!

berem: Abeg na wetin be GAY?

GAY NA GUY

Lol. We don't need him here, dear uk

berem: Abeg na wetin be GAY?

One can mistake u for one because of ur oddy shape as a woman, u know?

UNLEASHED:

As a typical Nigerian guy man, even if he ain't gay (which I believe he's not) he will agree to fhuck or get fhucked to convince the UKBA of his sekshual orientation if he'll be allowed to stay in the UK

BTW..are gays prosecuted in Nigeria?

berem: Abeg na wetin be GAY?

that thing me and you dey enjoy every weekend i come change am me and him come they enjoy am now...u dun get ur answer?

berem: Abeg na wetin be GAY?

sister! Show a brother the part of ur body that the sun dont shine on. If the guy no SET-P then it is either (1) THE GUY IS GAY. (2) he is importent or (3) u are unactractive............ And from the look of thins its not 3 but lets test. should i give u my email lets do the test?

Mr. Globe:

stay there, that could be the least thing someone desperate for visa can do. A straight nigerian person can become more gay than elton john when a visa opportunity presents itself

"A straight nigerian person can become more gay than elton john when a visa opportunity presents itself" maybe if he's a never do well like you, he might take the offer.