Forced migrants - preview
Spare rooms for those forced to migrate to the UK
John Okello is fifty-eight, an Acholi from Northern Uganda He was a well known TV journalist In 1997 he was detained by the military while on an assignment in Northern Uganda He was held for three nights in a barracks and beaten up On release he was told never to return to the area, which is his homeland He was then told by a friend that his home in Kampala had been raided, tapes and videos had been taken and the place trashed John faces probable arrest if he is returned to Uganda on suspicion of sedition for his strong anti-Museveni views and his belief that some of the atrocities in Northern Uganda ascribed to the Lord's Resistance Army were committed by the Ugandan Army As he was badly represented for his initial application for asylum and his appeal against refusal, he has had to make a fresh application The Home Office failed to acknowledge this for over two and a half years Until they do he is not entitled to even the seventy per cent of income support that the National Asylum Support Service (NASS) provides His first solicitor did not apply for permission to work for him so he can't Spare Room have enabled him to survive by offering a room of his own and enabled him to successfully complete high level computer courses and Access to Business Studies at Walthamstow College In 2006 he received offers from five different universities: Queen Mary, University of London are keeping a place open for him for 2007/8
Chris Gwyntopher
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