Arts on the Run

Here in Sheffield, Pride plays an integral role in Conversation Club, a registered charity that teaches English and helps new asylum seekers and refugees to get settled in their new home. He also coaches for Global Community Basketball, an initiative funded by the University of Sheffield to teach asylum seekers basketball. Most importantly Pride is the nicest person you would ever wish to meet, a true inspiration. We must delay his deportation until new evidence can be brought to light on27/3/17

16 signatures

Pride Mbi Agbor, aged 32, trustee of City of Sanctuary Sheffield

Last week the British High Commissioner to Cameroon met the country’s 84-year-old president Paul Biya, reportedly urging him to end the use of force against English speaking protesters. This week the British Home Office is planning to deport an English speaking Cameroonian who is a long term opponent of that same president and his government.

Pride Mbi Agbor, 32, was arrested last Thursday while his solicitor was awaiting an expert report to back up his asylum claim. Since then, he has been held in Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincolnshire and has been told he’ll be flown out of the country this Friday.

Labour MP for Sheffield Central Paul Blomfield said today: “Pride has become a really valued member of the local community. I’m working with his friends to make the strongest possible case to persuade the Home Office to stop Friday’s planned removal and review his case. There are real concerns about the position of the Anglophone community within Cameroon, which must be properly considered.”