Immigration deports Jumani

ALBERT SHARRA

Immigration Malawi yesterday (Wednesday) deported Jim Jumani Johansson on conditions that he was leaving in the country illegally.

Immigration Malawi Public Relations Officer Peter Kakatela confirmed the development in a separate interview yesterday afternoon.

Kakatela said Jumani whose Swedish passport number is 62521615 has been residing in the country illegally for more than a year.

“We have really deported Jumani yesterday through the Kamuzu International Airport. We have established that he was leaving in the country illegally for almost a year. We have caught him when we were doing our routine operations and when we checked all his documents we established that his time to stay in the country expired sometime back,” said Kakatela rebuffing all allegations that the Immigration service has been targeting him.

According to Kakatela, Jumani who came into the country last year in an effort to trace his father‘s home land applied only once a 30 days  temporary residence permission t live in Malawi after the expirely of his first residing period.

“When a foreigner comes into the country, he/she is given a visitors permit which is 30days and there are other two chances to extend the stay by 30 days each if there is need to do so but it is only after the visitor has given concrete reasons. Not only that if these three residence permits have expired and the person still need t stay on concrete reasons, he is entitled to apply for a Temporary Resident permit whose duration is 6 months, but Jumani only applied once and when it expired he never did again.

“As per Immigration Act, anyone leaving in the country without permission is breaching the law and we term the offense as deportable offense. The act empowers the office to deport the person immediately,” said he.

The deportee has come at a time when Jumani was also on police bail on accusations that he insulted and threatened to kill president Bingu Wa Mutharika at his home in area 47 in Lilongwe.

Jumani came into the country last year claiming that he is the son to the former president of the country Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda but his efforts to be recognized and be admitted as the son of the former first citizen of the country has been meeting resistance from all quarters of the concerned sides.

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