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Despite the public demanding answers, the Department of Home Affairs has remained mum on the plight of the Nigerian family who were deported to South Africa from Ireland last week.

Titilayo Oluwakemi Oyekanmi and her three sons were placed on board a chartered flight after their bid for asylum abroad was denied.

According to Ireland’s Minister of Justice Jim O’Callaghan, 63 illegal immigrants, including 9 children, have returned to SA.

They included the Nigerian family, Titilayo Oluwakemi Oyekanmi and her three sons, who fled their permanent residency in SA in 2023.

Oyekanmi claimed that a criminal gang in South Africa had assaulted her and that she feared for the lives of her children. However, her asylum bid was denied.

The Irish Independent Party claimed that Oyekanmi had refused an offer of €10,000 (R193 000), which would cover flights and relocation expenses.

She and other South African individuals were forcibly removed.

On social media, many questioned why the Nigerian family had been deported to South Africa, and not their country of birth.

Many tagged the Department of Home Affairs and Minister Leon Schreiber for clarity, who have yet to respond.

Action SA’s Matthew Goege revealed that, as a result of the non-response, the party had submitted an official parliamentary question seeking answers.

Advocacy group Put South Africans First also weighed in on the debate, stating that South Africans had a right to be heard.

Activist Jacinta Ngobese shared on her social media account.”We want to know how they landed in Ireland with our passports. And we want the Department of Home Affairs to arrest them and charge them criminally!

“We are tired of foreigners abusing our passports and the South African Government just letting them get away with it… Deport the kids to Nigeria and arrest the mother. Find the officials who helped them get passports and arrest them too”.


WHY NOT NIGERIA?

Ireland’s immigration laws state that individuals who are deported do not necessarily have to return to their country of birth.

As the Nigerian family had received lawful residency in South Africa, this was likely the avenue taken.

Under the Department of Justice, it was found that authorities were not convinced that the family qualified for refugee protection or that they could not live safely in South Africa.

The department stated that both the International Protection Office and the International Protection Appeals Tribunal were fully independent in deciding whether to grant international protection.

It added that each application is examined individually on its own merits, in line with national and international asylum law.

Deportation orders are issued to a country that is legally obliged or willing to take the individual.

According to South Africa’s immigration laws, South Africa must accept citizens who have been deported from other countries. Foreign nationals deported to South Africa require a legal right to enter, ie, via permanent residence.

They may also accept foreign nationals who were returned through an official deportation arrangement, particularly if South Africa was the last country they departed from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFrQ_Y4qT_w?si=CHqwNeJ8ORDuWVdV

Why south Africa and not Nigeria?.

Do you blame them? after watching Bwala disgrace himself and country on worldwide television 📺 you want them to come back to Nigeria?

You think tilumbu knows them or cares for their safety in Ogbomosho? don't you know that even Benin Republic is better than Nigeria as at today?

Maybe because they are permanent residents of South Africa, and they fled to Ireland from there.

Lagos their heaven is not an option even though Bwala and Omokri claims the man who tamed the Atlantic Ocean made it paradise, spits.

What is really happening in this country.
Why South Africa instead of Nigeria 🇳🇬

Ehn na them o,see them , look at them


Abike dabiri where are you

You want them to go back to Agege?

South Africa need to repatriate them back to Nigeria, we have a great government that have transformed Nigeria.



Our people abroad should please come back home because Tinubu has done wonders as you can see all state Governors decamping to the ruling party APC

Mattswaggz:
Why south Africa and not Nigeria?.

Answer...

They included the Nigerian family, Titilayo Oluwakemi Oyekanmi and her three sons, who fled their permanent residency in SA in 2023.

Oyekanmi claimed that a criminal gang in South Africa had assaulted her and that she feared for the lives of her children. However, her asylum bid was denied.

The Irish Independent Party claimed that Oyekanmi had refused an offer of €10,000 (R193 000), which would cover flights and relocation expenses.

Her husband nko?
What happened to him?

South Africa just hating on Nigeria, forgetting MTN Nigeria is feeding their economy

It's right to deport them back to SA since they had permanent residency in SA and immigrated from SA to Ireland.

Nigerians ... Blacks have to learn to fix their own homes.

The only solution isn't to JaPA.

This is why Blacks are the lowest on social ladder. Zero respect.

LoL.. were all 63 Nigerians? why focus on only the Nija family?
I thought the SAns would have grouse with Ireland deporting their 'real' citizens

They lived legally permanently in SA...so what's the outburst and outcry about?

How intelligent of you.

She made a decision on a decade long issue on Bwala's interview

SeeWahala:
Do you blame them? after watching Bwala disgrace himself and country on worldwide television 📺 you want them to come back to Nigeria?

You think tilumbu knows them or cares for their safety in Ogbomosho? don't you know that even Benin Republic is better than Nigeria as at today?

Mattswaggz:
Why south Africa and not Nigeria?.

That's the country from which they left

Nigeria is a tribalist shythole so I can’t blame them

franchasofficia:
South Africa need to repatriate them back to Nigeria, we have a great government that have transformed Nigeria.



Our people abroad should please come back home because Tinubu has done wonders as you can see all state Governors decamping to the ruling party APC

Make dem dey where dem dey, we don complete for Nigeria

What exactly is Titilayo looking for in Ireland

Tinubu has brought renewed hope to all of Nigeria, it's a new dawn

the country is booming once again..

please sound the alarm.. all Yorubas should return home and enjoy the good works of Tinubu

some people needs fresh South west virgins

muyico:
Her husband nko?
What happened to him?

How is that one your business?

Sccarrr:
They lived legally permanently in SA...so what's the outburst and outcry about?

Because Nigeria is involved

It is quite shameful, what the Nigerian government under the APCheat has turned its citizens to. Back then, other Africans used to openly show their admirations for/to us, but fast forward to today, it is the opposite, ranging from Islamic terrorists dislodging our soldiers and killing top military commanders, to foreigners both local and international yabbing and chasing us away, to light and housing problems, to high food prices, to mention a few. Sad, really sad...

GBAM

You said it all bro

ZombieTERROR:
What exactly is Titilayo looking for in Ireland

Tinubu has brought renewed hope to all of Nigeria, it's a new dawn

the country is booming once again..

please sound the alarm.. all Yorubas should return home and enjoy the good works of Tinubu

some people needs fresh South west virgins

They should have asked for deportation to Nigeria.

Why did they not ask for return to Nigeria?

Southern Nigeria people running away from Nigeria and making way for Islamists to occupy their territories.

When they tell PBAT to restructure Nigeria politically so that Arewa sharia states will govern their territory with Sharia criminal laws but let rest of Nigeria govern their territories as they want, Tinubu would not listen.

It's the same Tinubu who campaigned for political restructuring of Nigeria for about 13 years before 2014 when he saw an opportunity to become president of Nigeria after Buhari.

Nigeria failed by its dishonest politicians.

Tinubu is a Yoruba man and they are Yoruba they should be glad that they are coming back home where a Yoruba is creating wonders

AFTER VOTING FOR TINUBU, THEY WANT TO RUN. WHO DEOS THAT

After all the lies she was still deported

They have their SA permanent residency so indirectly it's still their home, and of which that's where they fled to Ireland from

Shame no dey catch Nigerians at this level. Countries are making it clear that u are not needed and una still dey force body on them.