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Cork - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970 Bring Back Great's Family
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 Saturday September 01, 2007 08:43 by Joe Moore - Cork Anti Racism Network mapuche at eircom dot net 087-2994796
Launch of Cork Group
A public meeting to launch a Cork section of the Bring Back Great Campaign will be held on Thursday 27th September, at 8.00pm in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick Street, Cork.
The meeting will be addressed by Councillor Cionnaith OSuilleabhain, Sinn Fein, Clonakilty Great Support Group and Roseanna Flynn, Residents Against Racism, Dublin. On 14th August the government deported a six year old autistic boy, along with his mother and sister. Great Agbonlahor had been living in Ireland for over four years with his mother Olivia and his twin sister Melissa. Since being diagnosed with autism, he had received the education and therapy he needs. But the family have now been deported to Nigeria, even though the children have never set foot in Africa. In Nigeria, Great will have no way of getting the treatment he needs. In fact, there is a danger that he could be dealt with as an outcast, and his family as if they were "possessed" by devils. As a result Olivia decided she had little option but to relocate to Ghana in order that Great might receive some level of treatment. They travelled to Ghana on Friday 24th August.
The order to deport Great's family was one of the last decisions made by Michael McDowell before his political career was ended. The new minister, Brian Lenihan, once had a reputation for supporting the rights of children. He has now shown himself to be as heartless as McDowell was, attempting to ruin the life of an autistic child.
Thousands of people around Ireland signed petitions calling on the Minister for Justice to let Great and his family stay. People from all walks of life supported him. Now he needs your support to force the government to cancel the deportation and allow the family back.
Legal proceedings are underway to overturn the deportation of Great's family. In the meantime Brian Lenihan still has the power to reverse this deportation. In March 2005 Leaving Cert student Kunle Eluhanlo was deported to Nigeria in his school uniform, but popular pressure made the government allow him back to Ireland, and he has lived here safely since. If you believe in human rights, and above all the rights of children, now is the time to make your voice heard.
Councillor Cionnaith OSuilleabhain, a Sinn Fein member of Clonakilty Town Council and a prominent member of the Great Support Group in the town and Roseanna Flynn the spokesperson of Dublin based Residents Against Racism, will address this meeting, which is the public launch of the Cork Bring Back Great Campaign.
The meeting is organised by Cork Anti Racism Network.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8I shall be in attendance for tomorrows meeting , This is just another example of the sick and twisted immigration policy our country has . And immense pressure will and should be made on the government to stop this racist act .
It was heartless to send a six-years-old child with Autism (who was receiving treatment here and making great progress) back to a country that does not have adequate treatment facilities to continue on with his progress and is a foreign country to him. I believe they should have made an exception in this case and given permission for this child to stay, given the fact that he had made such progress and that people here had put such time and hard work into helping and schooling him to cope with his lifelong condition. I believe it was extremely heartless action to deport a young Autistic child to Nigeria knowing full well the difficulties he will experience there.
Does anyone know where the hell the boy’s father is, I heard he is living in Italy, if he is, what the hell is he doing over there and why on Earth did he abandon his wife and children over here?
Frankly as a Nigerian national who originally decided to come to this country to study, I sometimes fail to comprehend the innuendo or the malicious slander being constantly levelled against my homeland and my people by otherwise well meaning people on this site.
Yes, it is one thing for people who have an interest in bringing back the Agbonlahor family to Ireland where they would be better taken care of. But if this can only be done at the cost of falsely condemning Nigeria and its population of 131M people, and portraying every Nigerian living there as some kind of irresponsible barbarian, then it is definitely not worth that price.
As a proud Nigerian I for one, will never accept that all my fellow Nigerians are some kind of inferior humans or brutish people, who inflict suffering on our fellow Nigerians. Because it is simply not true.
Many, perhaps well meaning people here, appear anxious to perpetrate the usual stereotypical image of African and Nigerian behaviour spending great amounts of time either mindlessly persecuting our fellow Nigerians or engaging in primitive practices like FGM.
Believe me nothing could be further from the truth as anybody who has ever visited Nigeria will have seen for themselves.
After I qualify here I will be very happy and relieved to return to practice in my native homeland and all the beautiful things which my country has in abundance. Furthermore our huge Nigerian oil reserves now ensure a country of greater prosperity for all in the future.
So please, please, the time has come to stop slandering Nigeria and its people.
If people wish to come to Ireland and for those who wish to support them, they need to find some other ways. This is not the way.
Please think of the hurt an injury that is being caused by people constantly referring to Nigeria and its proud people as some kind of inferiors with primitive behaviours.
Instead simply pay a visit there and see for yourself before condemning us all.
I can assure all that in modern Nigeria, Great is very unlikely to be treated as an outcast or having devils. This is just more racial slander and lies to justify this lady’s return.
It is not a true reflection of Nigeria or its wonderful people.
Actually he is being treated as an outcast , his mother was told a week after they've been deported "to have that child put away" as in put it down like you would a sick animal .
He is receiving no treatment what so ever and the only care he gets is from his mother who now cannot afford to work because she has to watch over great 24/7
Kev may I ask you if you have ever visited or stayed in Nigeria for any length of time. Because if you did you yourself would not be trying to use such terrible negative propaganda against Nigeria and its people.
Do you or anybody else here seriously believe that children in Nigeria can be “put away” or “put down like sick animals”. This is complete nonsense, unless somebody have a sick mind
Such stories are lies and deceitful propaganda which are even laughable.
Even might be racist comments with hidden agenda to make yourself feel more powerful.
Are you also convinced that Irish people also behave like leprechauns and fairies?
Great has a father who have some responsibility for his care
I would imagine that Kev's perception of Nigeria is based on very little knowledge. There is also a huge contradiction on the part of those like Kev who support all asylum applications for Nigerians and attack anyone who suggests they might not all be genuine and at the same time put forward a stereotype of Nigerians in Nigeria as matinee evil doers.
I've lived in Nigeria. I was there for 1 year on a contract.
I couldn't wait to get out of the place.
I went with a completely open mind, and found a country which was totally corrupt, from bottom to top.
I met people from other West African countries while living there - mainly Ghanaians. They were far better people. They didn't have the arrogance and greed that I found in Nigerians. This convinced me that it's not 'an African thing' or 'a Black thing' - but a Nigerian thing!
The oil you refer to - it has ruined and corrupted your nation. The country is rich in resources, yet it is one of the most dirty, dangerous, dysfunctional, and chaotic places I've ever been to (and I've been around). Violence and crime was endemic. I saw people murdered on the street by mobs. I worked in the aviation business, and there was a major accident every month I was there.
Why do you think so many Nigerians want out of it!?
The remaining oil, just like the rest, will go to line the pockets of your corrupt leaders, while the ordinary people starve in third world conditions. Or move to Ireland.
You have some crazy racist logic.
According to you all Nigerians living in Nigeria are bad people only creating corruption and violence all the time.
But after those same Nigerian people move to Europe or to Ireland they are saved and found to be OK people.
Surely such comment above only proves your racist comments against our Nigerian nation.
Our Nigerian Government is democratically elected every 4 years. Yes they have many problems to overcome but everyday gets better and Nigerians are now starting to live better and more educated than before. After all 131 Million of us still live over there. There is a great future for Nigeria, and God provided us with many benefits and natural resources.
Your same comments could easily be made about Ireland before celtic tiger.
Were all Irish just bad people until they had a chance to move to USA or UK?
Ireland also has some serious crime difficulties such as violence and killings almost every day, as well as corruption in your Government with Lining pockets
Would you also say then that most Irish people want out of it?
What satisfaction do you get by perpetrating the stereo image of all Nigerians being criminals and savages until they arrive in Ireland and can be saved?
As it says in the Bible you need to judge yourself before you judge others.