Flick ??The Nigerian woman, who was granted anonymity, submitted eight different appeals against a rejection of her right to remain in the UK. They ranged from claims under ECHR Article Eight, which guarantees a right to a family life, to assertions she was a victim of trafficking.
They were all rejected over a 10-year period.
In her ninth appeal, she claimed she faced persecution if she returned to Nigeria due to her membership of IPOB and her attendance at its protests, rallies and campaigns. She said protesters at the Nigerian high commission were photographed and potentially watched on CCTV. […]
Lower tribunal judge Iain Burnett initially rejected her claim largely because of a lack of evidence about her protest activities, which limited any risk of persecution on her return.
He found that she only became involved in IPOB “in order to create a claim for asylum”.
However, upper tribunal judge Ms Loughran overturned Mr Burnett’s decision, despite accepting that the woman’s IPOB involvement was “in order to create a claim for asylum and that it does not represent a true reflection of her genuinely held political views”.
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