A Nigerian man Olajire Obafemi Shoyombo is fighting to avoid deportation back to his fatherland after he was convicted for drug trafficking.
Obafemi Shoyombo was jailed in 2023 for three years by a Nottingham Crown Court on two court charges of supplying heroin and crack cocaine. He is facing deportation to Nigeria if the UK Home Office convinces a tribunal hearing the case he is not eligible to say in the country.
He came to the UK 2005 on visitors’ visa when he was three years old and has spent all his life in the UK. Obafemi Shoyombo argued he should be allowed to stay in the UK under the “private life exception”, which can apply to foreign nationals who have spent most of their life in Britain lawfully and would face “very significant obstacles” if returned to their home country.
However, according to LBC reports the tribunal must now decide whether there are “very compelling circumstances” that outweigh the public interest in deportation.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “We are doing everything in our power to contest this case, and having successfully appealed against it, it will now be reheard. “We are taking immediate action to ensure immigration rules are respected and enforced.”
