A woman who claimed she would be stoned to death if she returned to her native Nigeria has been told to report for deportation.
Ms Nimota Banidele (38) said she faced the death penalty because she had three children outside marriage. She has been denied humanitarian leave to remain in Ireland and was yesterday advised to report to the Garda National Immigration Bureau's headquarters in Dublin next Thursday.
Humanitarian leave to remain is the last option open to failed asylum-seekers. Ms Rosanna Flynn, spokeswoman for the Residents Against Racism organisation, said Ms Banidele was considering seeking a judicial review.
Speaking to The Irish Times in February, Ms Banidele said she had been sentenced to death under the strict Islamic legal code Sharia, two years ago.
"If I have to go back there they will kill me. They will find me." From Guacsu city in the northern Zamfara state, she said she had her three children before Sharia law began to be strictly implemented. She had split up from her partner and was living with her father, she said, when "they started killing people who had children out of wedlock".
Meanwhile, a Garda National Immigration Bureau spokesman denied rumours of a "mass deportation" flight to Nigeria next week. Groups working with asylum-seekers have described a "significant increase" in the number of deportation orders served on Nigerian families.
