Suspended jail term for Nigerian mother who tried to escape
A 36-year-old Nigerian woman was given a six month term suspended to two years after she pleaded guilty to escaping Malta last year using a false passport.
Mother of three Rashida Ommo Aluka was accused of using a false passport to flee Malta to Sweden.
She was caught in Oslo, eight months after she arrived there.
The woman is being kept at the Good Shepherd Convent in Balzan because of her children, the youngest being just three months old. It was not clear if the children had travelled with her.
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Louise Vella
Mar 26th 2010, 18:17
Nigeria is a huge country. It is overfull with oil and other natural resources. It is corrupt but that is not the fault of the Maltese people who are being obliged to pay for this Nigerian's stay in Malta. She wants to go to Sweden but Sweden does not want her. The Swedes are good only to preach to others, like Swede Cecilia Malmstrom, the EU Commissioner for Illegal Immigrants. There is one option that is for this Nigerian to be sent to her native Nigeria.
sean grima
Mar 26th 2010, 18:29
nigeria is also a country with a very corrupt government, where muslims in the north dominate over christians in the south and where there are frequent clashes.
Peter Wood
Mar 26th 2010, 17:39
Why on earth stop the woman from leaving Malta ??? If she wants to leave, is Malta now a penal colony. I don't understand the logic of this. On one hand we try to stop immigrants from coming here, then on the other we won't let them leave. You have to laugh (or cry)
R.Gauci
Mar 26th 2010, 19:12
This is happening because someone accepted and signed for the Dublin Treaty so we could join the EU take it or leave it to join the club, those are the conditions in it that is the first country of the EU these people go into and get the status of illegal Immigrants in is responsable for them, till some other Country(very difficult) accept them as legal residents!
The best solution especially in this case is send them back to there country of origin as will happen or suppose to happen with any other person from any country that entered Malta legally but his/her visa expires !! If you look around other european countries they all are not accepting any more immigrants as they are full up. That's why countries like Italy are taking a strong position against this problem! Tough times requires tough decisions!