By FRANK NAMANGALE | Nation Online
Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Immigration Department has deported two remaining Ethiopians whose arrest caused controversy after a defense lawyer was allegedly beaten up and thrown into custody by police over the weekend.
The deportation of the two Ethiopians early this week follows another deportation of a DRC national on Sunday, in what their lawyer Innocent Kalua said is a violation of a court order the High Court in Blantyre granted last week.
The foreigners’ lawyer said in an interview Thursday that the Immigration’s action to deport the two gives him more grounds to pursue committal to prison proceedings against chief immigration officer Elvis Thodi.
“The Immigration’s action is clear contempt of court. They have gone against a High Court order,” said Kalua.
The deported DRC national is Johan Mitterand and the two Ethiopians are Bashir Abute and Tego Lubako.
Kalua said there was a bail application at the High Court in Blantyre which was set for Wednesday, but it had been overtaken by events following the deportation of the remaining two Ethiopians.
“Now we are just waiting for the date from the High Court to commence the committal to prison proceedings,” Kalua said.
Thodi was not available for comment and the Immigration spokesperson Prudenciana Makalamba said he was in Mozambique and was expected back Thursday.
4 thoughts on “Congo deports 2 more Ethiopians”
So we are even in Congo?
A very poor report. It does not tell why the Ethiopian are deported , what they were doing there and so forth.
The report might seem poor, but, it is not difficult to draw out your own conclusion on what is happening and on what is going in Ethiopian soil. People are desperate and they flee wherever and whichever country might be without even questioning what is going to happen to their life. As of today there is no such ugly place in the world to live than ETHIOPIA, people even prefer to die in the sea while tenting to cross the water than to stay supporting the misery of the woyane regime.
Ethiopian under the woyane regime has become a hell in the earth. No food, No water, no Electricity, no telephone, no security, what else, that is why people take a risk and fly to countries like Congo.
The shameless dictator keeps killing the nation, and will continue killing unless we remove him forcibly, soon better than it became late.
Hey mr Getu,
you don’t seem to understand what is going on in Ethiopia!…or maybe we have to wait for you to go to school and see if you can get a better understanding of the world.Or maybe give you a chance to finish your high school…
Knuckle head!