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A gay Kenyan rugby player who was facing deportation from the United Kingdom has received a temporary reprieve after more than 70,000 people opposed the move.
Kenneth Macharia, a member of Bristol Bisons - a gay inclusive rugby club in Bristol, UK, was being detained at Colnbrook immigration center near Heathrow airport ahead of his deportation from the country.
More than 70,000 people have reportedly signed a petition to have his deportation cancelled and his request for asylum granted.
“There’s lots left to do, but he won’t be going anywhere for now,” Wells MP James Heappey wrote.
Macharia had applied for asylum citing fears of "persecution and violence in Kenya because he is gay" but the British Home Office rejected his request, saying that Kenya is a safe country for homosexuals.
Speaking to ITV News from Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre, Macharia has thanked his teammates for launching the petition to force British Immigration authorities to halt the deportation.
“I am deeply indebted to them. I’m extremely grateful. They are wonderful people. I am surprised they went into all this effort for me. I’m blushing right now.”
“I would like to stay because I want to have a normal love life, I want to have a normal life, and I do not want to be forced to hide who I am”, Macharia adds.
His mother, Jacinta Macharia who resides in South Bristol, says her son is depressed and it could get worse if he is deported.
“He is the only child I have in this country and has been driving me to and from work in various places because of my arthritis, for which I have been attending physiotherapy sessions,” Jacinta says.
“I am a 69-year-old British citizen and will progressively depend on him for support as I grow older,” she adds on her appeal.
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Homophobia is a Defence cliche Notoriously used to Validate and Promote homosexuality. And you sound one of them. So shame on you; and pain on the Father and "father" or Mother and "mother" you think begot you. Sodom and Gomorrah looks sure your Descent.
I think they read the comments on Mwakilishi and decided to give him asylum/ reprieve. If those in diaspora are so cruel how about those in Kenya? Scary, they concluded.
What would Jesus say or do (about Macharia)? Meanwhile bear in Mind that Anus sex is the Cradle of HIV.
Jesus would ask you holier than thou @Guest 1 to cast the first stone.
Ati normal love life? 😁
People who support homosexuality seem to really believe they were Born of Man and man or Woman and woman. FOOLS!!!!!! and so Mentally deprived they are.
Sure @guest1. And I thought sex was meant for procreation even in the animal world?. What have humans descended into? Bellow animal level? Mkristo @Imara hebu tufafanulie mambo haya. Ni mazito kweli.
@Njai:
Ndugu yangu kwa nini umenitukana kwa kuniita "mkristo?" Nilipokuwa nimepotea, na kutekwa nyara akili yangu (brain jacked) kama mkristo@Guest1, nilifikiria ya kwamba kila jambo kutoka kwa ndugu zetu wa kutoka Ulaya, lilikuwa zuri. Ajabu, pia, nilikuwa na jina kutoka kwenye kitabu cha Wayahudi kinachoitwa biblia.
Desmond Morris kwenye kitabu chake alichoandika kinachoitwa "The Human Zoo," amesema ya kwamba binadamu wakisongamana na kuishi karibu sana kama wanavyofanya mijini, binadamu kwa kawaida huanza kufanya mambo ya ushoga.
Pia Desmond alisema, wanyama waliofugwa kwenye bustani ya wanyama au "zoo" wameonekana wakifanya ushoga kama binadamu.
Katika taifa langu dogo la Kenya, kabla Waarabu na ndugu zetu kutoka Yuropa kufika, hatukuwa na ushoga. Sasa, ushoga umeshafika hasa kwa vijana walio na umri chini ya miaka 50. Shule za wanafunzi kusomea na kulala huko (boarding schools) pia zilisambaza (spread) tabia hii mbovu kutoka nje.
Jana niliandika orodha ndefu inayojaribu kuona kama mtu yungali Mwafrika. Utaipata mahali pa yule mwimbaji Mgikuyu. Kama nionavyo, baada ya miaka 50 kutoka sasa, tutakuwa Wafrika kwa rangi tu, Tutakuwa na tabia za ajabu kama za Wamarekani wa asili ya Afrika wanaoishi Marekani ya Kaskazini, Kati, Kusini, na pia visiwani vilivyomo Caribbean.
Thanks @Imara. I didn't know that ushoga inaletwa na msongamano ya watu. Hata hivyo as you have rightly said, this should not be used as a reason to encourage and defend it. @Mugikuyu do you know of any mzungu who has accepted and practices polygamy? Instead, they call it abnormal, sinful and even criminal to have more than one spouse. They are free to practice their ushoga lakini wasituletee. Likewise we have no right to force them kouwa wake wengine. What kind of hypocracy is this? Mimi hii nimekataa.
Guest one. Better stay in your village, get married in your village and die in your village with that kinda mentality. We live in a world where inclusivity is key. In this day and age homophobic MF like you have no place in this world. You like labelling people "Homosexual" as if that's even an insult. Guest one FYI everyone bends over, if your mama didn't bend-over we'd likely not have pieces of s***t like you roaming around. You mention sodom and Gomorrah but you chose to forget other aspects of the teachings in the Bible. I can tell you very unequivocally that a gay man or woman will see Heaven and you won't. Keep up that hatred my friend. It will surely consume you!
u need cancseling Kenya mademu ni wengi u tought... start ua own believes.yaani ulipewa hiyo ya ume iende kwa manaume mwingine.oo l could be a consular of uk ungejua. mamako hangelijua kukubeba,dakitali ,angefanya...
only kikuyus why why why???? so many single wanjeri wanaolewa na wazungu machetani au wanafanya umalaya sababu hawawezi kupata mwanaume wa uolewa.....
There is too much homophobia in Kenya; glad for which some fanatics are willing to even kill for. Glad you are able to stay. Homophobics, go ahead and pour your bile here.