A protest is underway at the Zim embassy in support of a Zimbabwean boy who is currently “trapped” in the building having fled into it for refuge last week.
The 16 year old boy is complaining of having been abused by British social workers, and is demanding free passage to fly back to Harare, embassy sources told this reporter.
The lad says he has endured months (a whole year) of turmoil under British care workers and has even been forced to seek asylum under the guise of a fake claim “merely so the social workers can satiate their work targets”.
A campaign for donations has since been launched to help sustain the boy and his mother in the building which has neither bathroom nor sleeping facility.
The British authorities are under fire for taking the boy away into their “care” from his mother as they were flying past London en route to Harare, in a case that has sent shockwaves in the Zim diaspora community, as the boy back then took advantage of the British police system, at the time saying that he does not like his home country, Zimbabwe.
What further irked Zimbabweans was the fact that the Zimbabwean and Canadian embassies were not informed of the actions taken by UK(The boy has both Zimbabwean and Canadian citizenship).
Families have raised concern that the lad was taken into British care even though he has no UK residency and was in transit past the island country to Harare. The social workers have obliviously opened a loophole to empower foreign children to obtain an easy way to live on British taxpayer funds.
But the same system does not allow him access to study as he explains in a public video…
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He has Canadian citizenship as well… ?So how did he end up in care? Why doesn’t he go back to Canada? So what’s the protest about? Who is the target? If the boy is schizophrenic, does Zimbabwe have the necessary medicines for this when the health care system is already in the intensive care by itself? The boy is said to have been on transit, from where & to where? For how long was he on transit to warrant social services to nab him into care? What was the rational used by social services to put him into care?
He has Canadian citizenship as well… ?So how did he end up in care? Why doesn’t he go back to Canada? So what’s the protest about? Who is the target? If the boy is schizophrenic, does Zimbabwe have the necessary medicines for this when the health care system is already in the intensive care by itself? The boy is said to have been on transit, from where & to where? For how long was he on transit to warrant social services to nab him into care? What was the rational used by social services to put him into care?
The poor boy is now totally confused. I think mum also has undisclosed issues of her own but still maintains an unhealthy influence over her son. I also doubt whether the boy would cope in Zimbabwe given what he’s already been through.
All the same I still pray that the outcome be in his best interest. I pity diaspora children
born into dysfunctional families with no extended
Family support. Both mother and son are seriously in need of proffesional support.
The poor boy is now totally confused. I think mum also has undisclosed issues of her own but still maintains an unhealthy influence over her son. I also doubt whether the boy would cope in Zimbabwe given what he’s already been through.
All the same I still pray that the outcome be in his best interest. I pity diaspora children
born into dysfunctional families with no extended
Family support. Both mother and son are seriously in need of proffesional support.
There is more to this story than this. How did he end up in care.