via Farai Chigogora deported to Zimbabwe – CBC Hamilton Jan 14, 2015
Hamilton’s Farai Chigogora has been deported to Zimbabwe after losing a last minute bid to stay in Canada.
Chigogora, 21, was deported in connection with a 2012 home invasion in Cayuga, Ont., for which he eventually plead guilty to theft under $5,000 and served 15 months in jail.
Community groups in both Hamilton and Toronto had rallied behind Chigogora in the lead-up to his deportation, saying he had become a valuable member of the community. Some argued deporting Chigogora after he’d already served jail time amounted to double punishment.
Canada only resumed deporting people to Zimbabwe in December of 2014, after more than a decade-long moratorium due to unrest in the African country.
Chigogora had lived in Canada since he was 14.
In a video appeal posted to YouTube before his departure, Chigogora said: “there’s nothing for me in Zimbabwe.”
Chigogora’s supporters said he left Canada on a plane Tuesday evening.
COMMENTS
Well done canada. These are the kind of people tarnishing our peoples name out here. At his age he should be graduating in something not coming out of prison.
Welcome home young man,there is Mugabe here for you!
welcome back to grinding poverty son.
Iko kupusa, there’s flowing sewage, potholes, pleanty of misika to shop from. Welcome home mupfanha.
He should have thought about his bright future in Canada than to implement shortcuts to success.Good join the unemployed here ,then you will learn how to survive selling tomatoes.
Justice and correctional systems are there specifically for that purpose. If someone comits a crime then they get punished and rehabilitated – which seems to have been the case here. To deport him after he saved jail time and accepted back by the comminity is unjust.
Do the cime do the time Canada or Europe must neva accept such an embarrasment back to their continent SHAME on U young man get a lyf