Opebiyi stated that on arriving at the Manchester Airport on March 14, 2021, he was stopped by the UK Immigration official, who insisted that he must be interviewed before he could be allowed into the UK.
A Nigerian banker, Adeyemi Opebiyi, has sued the United Kingdom authorities for allegedly turning him back from entering the country after he had been granted a visa and had flown from Nigeria to the Manchester Airport.
He claimed that he was subsequently detained for 10 days before he was finally deported to Nigeria on March 24. In the suit filed on his behalf by UK-based Nigerian lawyer, Mr Femi Aina, a Senior Consultant Solicitor with Martynsrose Solicitors, UK, Opebiyi is demanding damages for what he termed the unlawful and humiliating treatment meted out to him by the UK Immigration officers.
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