Mother has one week to leave the country

A SOUTH AFRICAN woman at the centre of a deportation row has been given a week to leave the country.

Nteta Appiakorang went to her local garda station in Tralee at 3pm on Monday and was told she would be moved to Dublin ahead of her deportation. After a two-and-a-half year battle for asylum, Nteta and her daughters Yesunia, 8, and Senita, 11 were given just two hours to pack up her belongings.

“They had less than an hour for them to literally pick up two and a half years worth of stuff,” said Deirdre Levi, co-ordinator at the Tralee Trans-Net Drop In Centre for asylum seekers. After a fraught 24 hours, the family was given a week to get their affairs in order.