After eight unsuccessful attempts to secure asylum in Britain, a Nigerian woman has finally been granted the right to stay after joining IPOB.

 

After joining IPOB, a Nigerian woman who was denied asylum in Britain eight times has finally been granted the right to stay.

 

According to a judge, a woman who is 49 years old from Nigeria joined the Indigenous People of Biafra to file a claim for asylum.

 

In 2011, the migrant arrived in the UK and joined IPOB in 2017. It is a separatist group that has been labelled a terrorist organization by Nigeria, but not by the UK.

 

 

According to Gemma Loughran, the woman has a 'well-founded fear of persecution' in her home country because she is a member of the group.

 

 

The European Convention on Human Rights was interpreted in a 'comically ludicrous' manner by shadow home secretary Chris Philip in the decision to grant asylum.

 

 

It is the latest in a series of tribunal rulings that allow deportations to be paused or asylum to be granted under human rights laws.

 

The migrant said she was worried about being arrested at the airport and disappearing if she returned to her country, according to The Telegraph.

 

This claim was initially rejected by a lower tribunal judge because of a lack of evidence about her activities within the group.

 

Judge Iain Burnett ruled that the woman joined IPOB solely 'in order to make a claim for asylum'.

 

 

But the upper tribunal judge overturned the decision, saying it was likely that the woman would be identified as an activist upon her return.

 

 

She ruled: 'It is clear from the country background evidence that the security services act arbitrarily and arrest, harm and detain those it believes may be involved with IPOB without conducting an assessment of the extent of their involvement or their motivation.

 

 

'The appeal is allowed on the basis that [the Nigerian woman] has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of her imputed political opinion arising from her involvement with IPOB in the UK.'