{"id":80948,"date":"2023-07-22T18:50:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/prominent-nigerian-journalist-deported-from-zimbabwe-after-10-hour-detention-spell"},"modified":"2023-07-22T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T20:10:27","slug":"prominent-nigerian-journalist-deported-from-zimbabwe-after-10-hour-detention-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/prominent-nigerian-journalist-deported-from-zimbabwe-after-10-hour-detention-spell","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Nigerian journalist deported from Zimbabwe after 10-hour detention spell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin has always wanted to visit Zimbabwe, but when it eventually materialised early this week, he spent 10 hours in a filthy, tiny, dark room and was later deported.<\/p>\n

Hundeyin, an investigative journalist, is one of the 2023 James Currey Fellows at the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n

His visit to Zimbabwe was linked to the fellowship, as he was due to have a speaking engagement after being invited by a Zimbabwean who is a member of the James Currey Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have wanted to visit since I was at university over 12 years ago,\u201d he told News24 without disclosing his location, only saying he was \u201cfar away from Zimbabwe\u201d.<\/p>\n

Before making the trip down south from Ghana, where he is based, Hundeyin said he checked with the Zimbabwean embassy about travel requirements.<\/p>\n

\u201cI confirmed from the Zimbabwean embassy that I wouldn\u2019t need a visa on account of my Ghanaian passport.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said as long as the airline was happy to recognise my Ghanaian refugee passport, they had no problem with recognising it as a Ghanaian passport. It was up to the airline,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Hundeyin made the trip to Harare aboard Ethiopian Airlines with no hassles but would later encounter challenges upon arriving at Robert Mugabe International Airport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to Harare and the next thing I knew, I was being denied entry and processed for removal for not having a visa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey claimed Zimbabwe does not recognise refugee passports as passports, and so the visa free status of Ghanaian passport holders in Zimbabwe did not apply to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For that, he was considered to be a Nigerian who came to Zimbabwe without a visa. That is when the nightmare started.<\/p>\n

Hundeyin said:<\/p>\n

Luckily they did not confiscate his phone and he started tweeting to raise the alarm.<\/p>\n

A fellow journalist and a YouTuber brought the matter to the attention of authorities in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was when my friends, Wode Maya and Hopewell Chin\u2019ono, started making calls that things started moving.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrior to that, it seemed they had quite literally forgotten about me in there. The people who locked me in had ended their shifts and gone home,\u201d Hundeyin said.<\/p>\n

His situation played out on social media with government spokesperson Nick Mangwana frantically explaining the government\u2019s position on the immigration issue involving Hundeyin.<\/p>\n

Mangwana, in a series of tweets, said: \u201cDavid came with Ghanaian refugee papers claiming he was a Nigerian who was a refugee from his home country. His country of asylum is Ghana after claiming to be running away from persecution in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople in this category certainly need visas to enter Zimbabwe. He wasn\u2019t coming in to work as a journalist.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said he was just coming to visit but without getting a visa in Ghana first. Other parts of his story were also unsatisfactory to the immigration authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was considered not a candidate for entry into Zimbabwe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hundeyin said the response from Zimbabwe\u2019s government ranged from disappointing to suspicious.<\/p>\n

\u201cMangwana dishonestly inferred that I came into Zimbabwe illegally for some sort of ulterior purpose, meanwhile I used a valid passport which I have never had trouble using anywhere else, including the UK and EU, and I explained my purpose of visit several times at the immigration desk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole thing left a terrible impression on me, and this surely cannot be how to market a country that claims to want tourists and investors to the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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