Home Office set to deport transplant patient to Nigeria

Roseline Akhalu’s doctors warn she will die within weeks

by Clare Sambrook 9th November 2012

Doctors, clergy and parliamentarians have called upon home secretary Theresa May to stop the removal of kidney-transplant patient Roseline Akhalu to Nigeria.  Roseline, aged forty-nine, who lives in Headingley, Leeds, came to the UK in September 2004 on a student visa, having beaten fierce competition to win a Ford Foundation Scholarship. She fell dangerously ill in April 2005, was put on dialysis, and given a transplant in July 2009.