Efa Kamdefwele is currently detained in Yarl’s Wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK to Malawi on Kenyan Airways flight KQ101 @ 20:00 hrs on Friday 9 July to Nairobi and then KQ730 to Malawi.
Zimbabwe Association are deeply concerned for the safety of Efa being deported to Malawi as she is from Zimbabwe. We are asking that you act now to support Efa’s campaign before she is deported to the wrong country where her life and wellbeing could be at serious risk.
Efa Kamdefwele is a Zimbabwean born on the 28th of December 1972. She was born and bred in Zimbabwe and has never lived in Malawi. The UKBA is attempting to deport her to Malawi because she came to the UK with Malawian Passport that was easily accessible in Zimbabwe at that point.
Despite producing numerous documents proving her Zimbabwean identity including birth certificate, metal national identity card, school certificates, her father’s citizenship certificate, bank statements, pay slip and other documents the UKBA still refuses to recognize that she is from Zimbabwe and that that is where she should be returned. Instead they have focused on why she came with a Malawian passport.
Efa fled to the UK as a teacher in Zimbabwe who faced victimization like many others in her situation. She was also an active member of the MDC. Here in the UK she has 3 sisters as well as other close family. She is an active member of the Forward in Faith Ministries. As a dedicated Christian she plays many roles in her church.
This is Efa’s 3rd attempted deportation to Malawi. There is extreme concern from the community that the Home Office and UKBA are allowing these types of grave errors to occur. Efa’s nation-wide campaign is led by the Zimbabwe Association in London and supported by 1000s of others.
Signed………………………………………..
Dated…………………………………………
What you can do to help: We must act now if we are to keep Efa from flying, Friday 9 July. Write and call to the airline Kenya Airways, Home Secretary Theresa May and her MP Jack Straw.
To download sample model letters, just double click the links below. Titus Naikuni, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive, Kenyan Airways
Rt. Hon Theresa May MP, Secretary of State for the Home Office
Jack Straw, MP
1) Contacting/lobbying airlines can be an effective ways of preventing deportation.
The airline and its pilot make the final decision as to who flies on there planes, often pilots have refused to fly with deportees on board allowing time for further legal proceedings to be taken.
Contact Kenyan Airways about Flight KQ101.
Titus Naikuni, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive
Kenyan Airways
Barclays Plaza, 5th Flr.,Loita Street,
P.O.Box: 41010-00100 , Nairobi Kenya
Email: [email protected]
Fax: + 254-20-6422560
2) Contacting/lobbying the Home Secretary.
Rt. Hon Theresa May MP
Secretary of State for the Home Office,
2 Marsham St London SW1 4DF
Fax: 020 8760 3132
3) Contacting/lobbying Efa’s MP.
Jack Straw, MP
House of Commons
London
SW1A 2TT
Fax: +44(0)1328 864222
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