A Nigerian pastor and cousin of Star Wars actor John Boyega has lost his fight against deportation after claiming it would breach his human rights.
Tobi Adegboyega, 44, saw his church shut down after investigations exposed a misuse of funds by his church.
As a result, an immigration tribunal found he should be deported back to his native Nigeria after investigations.
SPAC Nation, the church Mr Adegboyega ran, shut down after failing to properly account for more than £1.87 million of outgoings and operating with a lack of transparency, The Telegraph reported
Having been married to a British woman, the pastor claimed deportation would breach his right under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to a family life and failed to consider his community work with SPAC.
His legal team described him as a ‘charismatic’ community leader of a large, well-organised church who had ‘intervened in the lives of many hundreds of young people, predominantly from the black communities in London, to lead them away from trouble’.
Politicians including Boris Johnson and senior figures within the Metropolitan Police had ‘lauded’ his work, he claimed, but no testimony by them was submitted to the court.
However, the Home Office contended ‘all is not as it seems’.
SPAC Nation, the church Mr Adegboyega ran, shut down after failing to properly account for more than £1.87 million of outgoings and operating with a lack of transparency, The Telegraph reported
Having been married to a British woman, the pastor claimed deportation would breach his right under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to a family life and failed to consider his community work with SPAC.
His legal team described him as a ‘charismatic’ community leader of a large, well-organised church who had ‘intervened in the lives of many hundreds of young people, predominantly from the black communities in London, to lead them away from trouble’.
Politicians including Boris Johnson and senior figures within the Metropolitan Police had ‘lauded’ his work, he claimed, but no testimony by them was submitted to the court.
However, the Home Office contended ‘all is not as it seems’.
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