Home Office to deport Zimbabwean to Malawi

Opinion

Below is the copy of an email sent into ZimEye by a writer Mr Zulu on the moved deportation of Darlington Savuwa to Malawi.

I write this letter with a heavy heart as one other Zimbabwean, Darlington Peter Savuwa is being detained in Lindonholme awaiting deportation on the 2nd of July. He is being deported to Malawi, the only country at the moment which seems to legitimize the shambolic elections that took place recently. Darlington Peter Savuwa used to work in the SIRDC, a government parastatal which was responsible with churning out figures and statistics of the failed land reform program. He was hounded out of his job by the CIO amid accusations that he was part of the 'born frees' who were in complicity and sympathetic to the MDC. He fled to Malawi where he managed to make his trip to UK and now he is being deported to Malawi which is heavily backing the Mugabe regime in every way. Recent reports are suggesting that the much dreaded CIO will be making its way to Malawi soon to help the incumbent leadership there to fight the opposition. It beggars belief when the Home Office detains and deports people who fled from terror and have genuine security fears for their lives. I would like to take this opportunity to request and canvass support from all Zimbabweans who have friends, relatives, MDC supporters and all detained countrymen, to lobby the British PM as a matter of urgency in the next 48hours to call upon him to stop all deportations and detentions. Deporting people to Mugabe's hell is not the solution for these people who want to help their families survive in Zim where general living conditions have deteriorated dramatically. Malawi is hosting CIO operatives who track all deported Zimbabweans and it thus makes it a very unsafe place, instead it makes one very vulnerable to any form of destitution and desperation. My contact number is 07867657113