Unwanted Man gets Respite :: Mmegi Online

Government's plan to deport an American national has been stopped by the courts. The Kasane-based wildlife veterinarian and conservationist Dr Clay Wilson was slapped with the deportation order on Friday and was to be deported the same day.

As police and immigration officers were escorting him to the Kasane Airport from where he would be flown to Gaborone, Wilson's lawyers Lizo Ngcongco and Busang Manewe hurriedly put together an urgent application in a bid to get an injunction against the state.

The presiding judge Justice Singh Walia ruled in his favour. The injunction, in place until a full court hearing, will allow Ngcongco and Manewe to say why their client should not be deported. In his court papers Dr Wilson is challenging his removal from Botswana through a presidential order, while he still has a pending case in court against government following a decision by Labour and Home Affairs Minister to declare him a Prohibited Immigrant

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