Most astonishingly for the Conservative government, it was not only the unanimous decision by the Court’s five justices but also a vivid agreement with a previous Court of Appeal decision over the matter.
The Court maintained that there is no appropriate and suitable assessment to determine if in fact “Rwanda is safe”.
Even though Charities and other legal representatives earlier confirmed to The Point that “so far there are no Gambians on the Rwanda list” affected persons confirmed that some of them have “received letters and are petrified”.
The acrimonious proposal first announced by former UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is not only a bone of contention in the UK but across the world as human rights groups and several UN agencies described it as “illegal, unjustified and wrong”.
Notwithstanding, the government also insisted that a fair and robust asylum policy is required to prevent “abuse and human trafficking”.
It is also vital to note that the Supreme Court is currently the UK’s final Court of Appeal for both Civil and Criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland prompting legal experts to denounce the Rwanda plan as “not in line with the country’s law and reputation”.
Interestingly, Suella Braverman, former Home Secretary who was an instrumental figure and architect of the whole plan, was sacked few hours prior to the Court’s decision over allegations of bias against the Metropolitan Police over protests.
But the whole fiasco is now described by the opposition as “laughable” and further contested that the government already spent £140m on the scheme even though flights were prevented by the Courts from departing.
The UK courts had constantly commented on the lack of human right safeguards for asylum seekers in Rwanda and further suggested that people expelled could then be sent by the same authorities to other countries where they would not be protected.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak publicly announced that his government would continue to work on a “new treaty with Rwanda”.
