
Nigerian lady, Aderonke Apata, who claimed to be a homosexual, is
currently having sleepless night as she hopes to convince the United
Kingdom court over her asylum case.
Apata, 47, reveals the
traumatic ordeal that she was asked to bring supporting documents for
her judicial review for the court to look at.
“What evidence do
we have to compile apart from letters from people? I knew we had a home
video of ourselves, so I thought why not just put it in? I cannot afford
to go back to my county where I will be tortured, so if I have to prove
it with a sexual video, then I have to do it.”
With sadness and
grief in her heart, Apata felt so disappointed that the situation has
gone this far. “It’s such a desperate and precarious situation to be in
because anything could happen to those pictures, those videos.”
Apata
will present her petition at a meeting with the Independent Chief
Inspector of Borders and Immigration, attended by asylum-seekers and
activists in Manchester, adding that she does not want to go back to her
country where she knows she is not secured and stands to go to jail
because of the law prohibiting same sex marriage.

This latest asylum claim was also rejected, despite the fact that
Apata gave testimony that her ex-girlfriend in Nigeria was killed in a
vigilante attack in 2012 and the country’s law now punishes
homosexuality with up to 14 years’ imprisonment.
Apata’s story has rapidly garnered mass support, attracting more than 230,000 signatures.