American wrongly deported to Nigeria

by Obi-Akpere | January 3, 2008 at 11:49 am
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 It is shocking and pathetic for a person to be uprooted from the only home he knows just because of the colour of his skin, which he has no control over to a place where he has no relative and has never visited all his life.

A Lagos Magistrate Court, Ebute-Metta, Lagos has fixed Wednesday for ruling in the case brought against a black American Mr. Grayson Ernest Eugene who was serving a jail term in the United States before his alleged deportation to Nigeria in error by the American government on December 12, 2006. Eugene, 44, is standing trial before Magistrate R.O. Davis on a one-count charge of “an act not warranted by law” which “causes inconvenience or damage to the public by loitering around American Embassy premises.”

Counsel to the accused person from Sola Adabonyan & Co, Mrs Cordelia Chigozie Anyanwu, told the court at the resumed hearing Friday that the accused person, being an American citizen on wrongful deportation to Nigeria, a country where he has no relative and has never visited all his life, had no where else to go than the American Embassy, having found himself in Nigeria for no fault of his. She argued that the American Embassy, or any other embassy for that matter, being the property of citizens of that country, was the only place her client, like any other sensible person, should have gone to in the circumstance.

I do hope that what is bad in the eyes of the west is not
Nigerian. This is because why on earth should a black criminal in US be
deported to Nigeria?

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She submitted that the accused person was not criminally liable as he is a victim of circumstances, stressing that it is shocking and pathetic for her client to be uprooted from the only home he knows just because of the colour of his skin, which he has no control over and that the accused person was acting on the belief that he had every right to be at the American Embassy as an American citizen in accordance with the American Constitution, 14th Amendment Section 1.

The counsel told the court that her client had given his social security number, asking what stopped the American Embassy, with all their sophistication, from cross-checking the information provided by her client, adding that the injustices of her client’s deportation to a country he has never lived was compounded by the refusal of the American Embassy to take his finger prints and do a DNA test as the accused person had requested.

Anyanwu urged the court to discharge and acquit her client as there was nothing in the charge to suggest he visited the American Embassy with intent to commit any crime nor did the charge suggest her client was a threat, telling the court that the embassy officials told his client to produce a third party confirmation where he did not know anybody.

She reminded the court that the complainant in the case, the American Embassy, had never been to court and therefore have shown no interest in the case. The accused person had, while giving evidence last Wednesday, told the court that he was born on September 3, 1963 in Greenville, South Carolina to Mr Grayson and Ms Sylvia Atkins, adding that he is not a Nigerian and had only heard of Nigeria in current affairs where he lived at Brooklyn, New York City, which he described as a community of African blacks.[/q]

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femi

this should be directed to the new mr. president obama.....why is the americans breeding hatred for themselves around the world. an american citizen deported to a country he's never been to....no relatives....it's a shame to you america....you preach human right ...fredom but you dont practise it.....because he's a blackman does he have to be a nigerian? tell me who's a true american? even all your founding father are immigrant but why are you so wicked and heartless these days....destroyong the souls of the innocent.

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Kevin Cartee

I am fighting to get back to American as well, I was deported bye ICE from Georgia and sent back to England my place of birth, but the US Embassy in London has proved that I was a US citizen since I was born because my father was a US citizen and my father file my citizens born abroad certificate on AUG 2nd 1963 its all been now proven,  He was a US citizen serving his country in the USAF. But now they still won't issue my US passport and I've paid for it. I was sent back to England where I have no family and had to live in the streets until I was able to get into a Hostel a few weeks later. Not one Part of the US government is looking into my case of a US citizen being deported. the US Constitution states that a US citizen can't be deported but they deported me. The senators back in Georgia aren't seming to help at all. I need some help.Please email me if you can help me  dr.kev01@yhaoo.co.uk  Thank you  Kevin Dale Cartee

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