Fourth attempt to remove, Rose-Jane & Natale
Rose Jane & baby Natlale, were snatched from their Home in Hyde, Cheshire on Sunday 1st of November. An attempt to remove them on Wednesday 4th November failed, when Rose Jane refused to fly. Mother and child are currently in Yarl’s Wood IRC, and new removal directions have been set for Thursday 12th November from London Heathrow terminal 5 on British Airways Flight BA65 @10:00 to Nairobi.
Please support the right of Rose Jane and her daughter to stay in Britain
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Rose Jane is a Christian who comes from the Mathare district of Nairobi, Kenya, where she was a teacher. Her late husband became involved with the Mungiki sect an outlawed sect in Nairobi in late 2005 and took the Mungiki oath. Her late husband wanted her to join the sect, which would amongst other things result in her having to undergo female genital mutilation. She refused and fled, he later died. She has a daughter Natale who was born in the UK. If she is returned to Kenya she fears that her daughter and herself would be forced to go through female genital mutilation and persecution at the hands of the Mungiki.
The Home Office are aware that the Mungiki seek to impose Female Genital Mutilation and other forms of violence on women and children, this includes wives, partners, children and other female family members of those men who have taken the Mungiki oath. The Home Office also is aware that there is evidence of the Mungiki imposing political and cultural beliefs upon others. (UKBA Current Operational Guidance Note Kenya ~ September 2008)
There is evidence that the Mungiki seek to impose FGM and other forms of violence on women and children other than those who have been initiated into their sect. In particular, such women and children include the wives, partners, children and other female family members of those men who have taken the Mungiki oath. All of Kenya has Mungiki who can travel freely around it and the Mungiki following are already spread everywhere in Kenya. Insufficient protection is available from the Kenyan authorities for such persons.
VM v SSHD (FGM-risks-Mungiki-Kikuyu/Gikuyu) Kenya CG [2008] UKAIT 00049
BBC News: Kenya’s secretive Mungiki sect
http://tinyurl.com/Mungikisect
Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) have set up a campaign to Defend Rose Jane and her daughter
Rose-Jane has built a new life for herself and her daughter Natale, who was born in Britain and has never been to Kenya. They are now settled in Hyde, Cheshire and have lived in Britain for 3 years. Rose-Jane has been an important member of Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) and has supported many other women asylum seekers and others members of her community in Hyde where she is member of the church.
Please take urgent action now and help us to help get Rose-Jane and her daughter back to Hyde where she belongs.
What you can do to help:
1) Email/Phone Willie Walsh, Chief Executive Officer British Airways and urge him not to carry out the forced removal of Rose-Jane & Natale. Please use the attached Rose-JaneBA.doc. You can copy, amend or write your own version and add your address at the top – if you do please include all the following details: Please do not remove, Rose-Jane Wanjohi and her daughter Natale, due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Thursday 12th November from London Heathrow terminal 5 on British Airways Flight BA65 @10:00 to Nairobi.
Email: willie.walsh@ba.com
Online Contact customer relations:
http://tinyurl.com/BACustomerRelations
Customer Relations phone: 0844 493 0 787 Monday-Friday 08:00-18:30 (hold line till operator answers)
2) Email/Fax, Rt. Hon. Alan Johnson MP Secretary of State for the Home Office asking that Ms. Rosejane Wanjohi HO ref. W1119087 and daughter Natale, be granted protection in the UK. Please download “model letter” Rose-JaneAJ.doc which you can copy/amend/write your own version (if you do so, please remember to include their HO ref W1119087)
Fax: 020 8760 3132(00 44 20 8760 3132 if you are faxing from outside UK)
Emails: Privateoffice.external@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk
“CIT – Treat Official” CITTO@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
Please notify the campaign of any Email/faxes sent:
Rose Jane and her daughter Must Stay Campaign
C/O WAST
Women’s EVH
ADA House
77 Thompson Street
Manchester
M4 5FY
wastmanchester@yahoo.co.uk
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Rose Jane and her daughter Must Stay Campaign
