Kenya Airways
Bedfont Road
Staines
Middlesex
TW19 7NL
Fax: 020 8745 5027
Phone: 020 8759 7366
Email: contact@kenyaairways.com
“The Pride of Africa” RE: “Don’t let your company become the SHAME of Africa” Dear Mr Okwulehie,
I am writing to call for your urgent intervention in the asylum case of Mr
Nestor Na Bokwala N’djoli Bokuli 18/11/41 and Mrs Marie Louise
Likoka Bombito 28/03/46. (Case ref: B1176643).
Kenyan Airways Mission Statement claims that your company is committed to 'Corporate and Social responsibility' and your strap line “the pride of Africa” will no longer apply if you assist in this removal.
By being party to the removal today of Papa Nestor and Mama Marie to the DR Congo I believe you would not be being socially responsible in any sense, but would be complicit in any harm that would come to them.
Papa Nestor will be 70 years of age in November 2011 and Mama Marie is
63 years old. Their immediate family here in the UK fear for their lives if they are returned to DRC.
The Home Office Policy states that it is the decision of the carrier as to whether they carry people who are being forcibly removed.
In view of this I urge you not to allow Papa Nestor and Mama
Marie to embark upon the flight KQ101 on Kenyan Airways today
Monday the 11th of April 2011 at 20:00 hrs.
Since 2003 Papa Nestor and Mama Marie have been living in the UK and
have a loving and sustained relationship with their son and their daughter, their respective families, their 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild born on 29/03/11 whom they may never see if returned to the
DR Congo.
Having both fled the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) because of the persecution that Papa Nestor suffered due to his participation in political activities as an active member of the Union for Democracy and Social
Progress (UDPS) they sought and have been refused refuge here in the
UK.
Papa Nestor has also participated in various