Kweku Adoboli, the convicted former UBS trader has been deported from the UK to Ghana, his country of birth after Home Office officials put him on a flight from Heathrow airport on Wednesday afternoon. That’s the news circulating in British newspapers following his deportation.

However, taking certain issues I am about to put down into consideration, one could clearly see or judge that Kweku Adoboli doesn’t deserve to be deported to Ghana. He lost his case because of the colour of his skin, despite serving a prison sentence for the crime he committed.

Adoboli has to go to the Home Office to report. Solving problems with the Home Office in the United Kingdom is a normal procedure for every immigrant having immigration issues to live in the UK. And while at the Home Office, Adoboli was arrested and taken to Harmondsworth Immigration Center. Then on Wednesday, under escort, he was deported back to Ghana.

Kweku Adoboli came to the United Kingdom at the age of 12. He had his education to the university level. He wasn’t even yet a teenager when he entered the UK, therefore, all his childhood experience was in the UK, not Ghana or Africa.

Everyone who commits a crime must pay, therefore, Adoboli was jailed for seven years in 2012, after being found guilty of fraud that cost UBS $2.3bn (£1.8bn). He was released after serving half his sentence. Why was he released in the first place? That means that the law took certain things into consideration.

When talking about crime, can the British government accept and agree with Africans the crime they have committed against the continent of Africa before and after independence? The African or the black man is considered inferior, thus; Britain and America have committed serious crimes against Africa with impunity.

The black man has lost his own identity in broad daylight crimes by Britain and America during slavery, Apartheid, colonial brutality, Aids and Ebola biological weapons, which world leader has been called to stand trial for all these crimes against humanity?

America and Britain don’t tolerate crime, yet the clandestine crime these two countries have committed in Africa is so appalling that we need to ask if Africa has leaders. No African leader seems to care about crimes committed in Africa against Africans.

If African leaders don’t care about their own people why should Britain or America care about an African who has committed a crime and punished for his crime, above all in the country while 12? When will our leaders show that the black man is also a human being?

What does Kweku Adoboli’s deportation mean to the Ghanaian government and the entire African continent? What lessons can we learn from this injustice done to this young man? Are African leaders going to side with Britain and America to destroy the continent with Ebola after Aids?

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Photo: Kweku Adoboli under arrest

When his Village People are fully on duty in the Server room. Shi.t will begin to happen everywhere u go like MTN......!

The guy is a British Ghanaian.

I don't wanna imagine myself in that guy shoes, he will be crying bitterly right now in Accra

What a terrible change the guy will be experiencing now

From London to Accra change

Even the police people love him

The rogue trader !! How come he didn't have British citizenship all these years despite being a well paid trader and speculator

Africans should be ashamed of themselves....

You can't develop or add anything to humanity

Just nuisance in Europe and America...

lol YOU SHOULD be ashamed for your comment BECAUSE you are in a FORUM CREATED BY AN AFRICAN, and you have added nothing..... an african must have contributed to your birth lineage.

Europeans and Americans.... who used african as SLAVES should be applauded right?

YOU MAY BE WHITE BUT YOU SEEM TO BE USING THE BRAIN OF AN APE.....

ZombiePUNISHER:
Africans should be ashamed of themselves....

You can't develop or add anything to humanity

Just nuisance in Europe and America...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDXMqCryZt4

Kweku Adoboli talks about facing deportation

tripplephi:
lol YOU SHOULD be ashamed for your comment BECAUSE you are in a FORUM CREATED BY AN AFRICAN, and you have added nothing..... an african must have contributed to your birth lineage.

Europeans and Americans.... who used african as SLAVES should be applauded right?

YOU MAY BE WHITE BUT YOU SEEM TO BE USING THE BRAIN OF AN APE.....

Only fools can be used as slaves

but they had no choice.... did you not know? they were FORCED INTO SLAVERY

ZombiePUNISHER:


Only fools can be used as slaves

tripplephi:
but they had no choice.... did you not know? they were FORCED INTO SLAVERY

I'm not talking about then. I'm talking right now..

Go abroad and see how Africans subject themselves into all manner of ridicule...

@op. When a foreign national commits a crime in a country, then the risk of deportation becomes very high. If you are not a citizen, and you commit a crime e.g. assault, dui, vandalism etc, then the foreign national would be put in a deportation list after serving his or her prison term. I am sure Nigeria or Ghana would also have a similar law. In addition, there is no proof that ebola was introduced into Africa as some form of biological weapon.

Also, for how long will Africans continue to cry for crimes commited 2 to 5 centuries ago. I am not sure if any crime was commited after independence? We daesired to givern ourselves and we got it. Crimes were also commited against the Asian continent, but look at how far they have advanced. We need to wake up and stop the blame game.

tripplephi:
but they had no choice.... did you not know? they were FORCED INTO SLAVERY

Not saying slavery was a good thing, but Africans were sold into slavery with the cooperation of African Kings and chiefs. The whites did not go into the interior of Africans to drag people unto boats and ships.
Do you know they tried with Asians at first and were vehemently resisted before they found thag the African elites were willing to sell their own people for mirror, guns, rum e.t.c

I read in the news today, I read how Canada wants to start by-passing government and private middle men/offices and deal directly with the people that needs financial aids and funds in Africa. This decision was made due to the massive corruption going on when the funds gets to Africa. Was Canada involved in crimes commited against Africa?

Sorry for the guy.

However, he was not a UK citizen but a Ghanaian citizen who was given legal residency to remain in the UK indefinitely with conditions of which some he violated.

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Was not about the colour of his skin. The crime he committed not only earned him jail but loss of his British citizenship. He wont be the first nor the last. The citizenship is earned not for anyone. A lesson to all. Visas are not given to any1 but to the deserving.

Serious financial crimes should be punished more harshly imho. For serious crimes, after release from prison, deportation is fair.

blackboy:
Was not about the colour of his skin. The crime he committed not only earned him jail but loss of his British citizenship. He wont be the first nor the last. The citizenship is earned not for anyone. A lesson to all. Visas are not given to any1 but to the deserving.

If he had citizenship, he won't be deported. In addition, let us assume that he is actually a british. It would be tough for him to get a job again when a potential employer runs a background check. Tough luck.

However, dude might even be better off in Ghana. Investment banks in Ghana might like his qualifications.

It's called trust. White people don't give you a second chance when it comes to trust. It's not like it is in Nigeria where someone will come to the pulpit and confess to once being an armed robber but was arrested by the holy spirit and the congregation will start opening their mouths in awe and clapping their hands while the pastor starts speaking in tongues sheribabababababa. In developed countries, one strike you're out. If you're a convict, you're messed up for life even as a citizen. I'm glad you admitted that the dude should be punished for his crime. Well, his deportation back to Africa, I'm afraid is one of his punishment including and not limited to being blacklisted from entering America or Europe. Yes, arguably, dude can't enter any developed country again until he dies. Say no to crime!

The ways of the law are not the same of man. Some cases can get argued commonsensically but when presented to a judge will get rubbished completely.
The man knew what he signed up for when he got his residency. He violated the terms and is getting punished for it. Leave him to suffer from his own doing.

I have followed Adoboli's case for a few months, but I still struggle to have any sympathy for him. This was a man who had indefinite leave to remain for years, and for some strange reason, he chose not to pursue British citizenship. This same man said he had no family in Ghana and all his family and friends are in the UK, meanwhile investigation found that his mum and dad live in Ghana. This same Adoboli once insulted Ghana by saying that it's better he remains in detention in the UK rather than being deported to Ghana. He had billions of pounds at his disposal as a high networth financial trader, and he chose to be financially negligent with it leading to a huge loss of over £1.2 billion of tax payers money.

The UK immigration rules clearly states that if an immigrant is convicted of an offence and sentenced to more than 4 years, he is liable to deportation at the end of his sentence. He has no british wife and kids, and therefore, he is not entitled to being allowed to stay based on family life.

I have absolutely no sympathy for him. The same Ghana he has been insulting all the time he was in custody welcomed him home with a hot plate of banku and palm nut soup. He is highly trained in the financial markets, he wouldn't struggle getting a banking job in Ghana and continuing to enjoy palm nut soup.

Zero empathy for him. Hes lucky to be welcomed with Fufu and aponkye. Watched him once saying shyte about Ghana. . .


Im not so sure he will get employed by any financial institution in Ghana. He will either try to start a microfinance bank (if he has the means) , resume his forex trading if he can or find away to migrate to another country ;SA likely.

claremont:
I have followed Adoboli's case for a few months, but I still struggle to have any sympathy for him. This was a man who had indefinite leave to remain for years, and for some strange reason, he chose not to pursue British citizenship. This same man said he had no family in Ghana and all his family and friends are in the UK, meanwhile investigation found that his mum and dad live in Ghana. This same Adoboli once insulted Ghana by saying that it's better he remains in detention in the UK rather than being deported to Ghana. He had billions of pounds at his disposal as a high networth financial trader, and he chose to be financially negligent with it leading to a huge loss of over £1.2 billion of tax payers money.

The UK immigration rules clearly states that if an immigrant is convicted of an offence and sentenced to more than 4 years, he is liable to deportation at the end of his sentence. He has no british wife and kids, and therefore, he is not entitled to being allowed to stay based on family life.

I have absolutely no sympathy for him. The same Ghana he has been insulting all the time he was in custody welcomed him home with a hot plate of banku and palm nut soup. He is highly trained in the financial markets, he wouldn't struggle getting a banking job in Ghana and continuing to enjoy palm nut soup.

He has a partner, I just watched his exclusive interview to Joy news that, also read it now on BBC website. Oh boy, that guy salary was 50,000 pounds, though he claimed it was only increased a year before the incident, but that's about 23 million naira per month, mehn UK pays well o, I guess d tax will slash over 30% down, which to me is still good. Imagine take home salary of my fellow man to be about 15m and I d Naija d struggle for job of 100k