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Nepalese soldier spends three months in Brickdam lock-ups
After spending 95 days at the Brickdam lock-ups, Nepal national Kharka Bahadur Karki will finally be deported to his home country on Saturday.
Karki was picked up by immigration authorities on February 15 last after overstaying his time in Guyana.
According to reports, the Nepalese arrived in Guyana with a Jamaican friend and was given one month to stay in the country.
He subsequently applied to the Ministry of Home Affairs for an extension of stay but that request was denied.
Since his arrest, Karki, a serving member of the Nepalese security forces, has been at the Brickdam lock-ups. He claims that he was never taken to court.
Yesterday, a man who was also in the lock-ups pending an assault charge, visited Kaieteur News to highlight Karki’s plight.
He told this newspaper that Karki claims that he was never taken to any court but was instead just placed in the lock-ups.
“All he skin turning out with things because of the condition in deh,” the man said.
Karki’s story was published in the ‘Letter to the editor’ column in Kaieteur News on April 4 last.
At the time of his arrest, one laptop computer, a cellular phone and a quantity of United States and Guyana dollars were lodged at the police station.
Speaking with Kaieteur News, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee said that Karki’s family has provided his ticket for him to travel on Saturday.
The Home Affairs Minister said that at the time of his arrest, the Nepalese man had a Jamaican ticket in his possession.
As such he was sent back to Jamaica, where he claimed there was a ticket for his travel to Nepal, but the Jamaican authorities sent him back to Guyana after his story did not gel.
Rohee said that under the Immigration Act, anyone who violates the immigration laws of Guyana can be kept in police custody until such time as he or she is deported.
He said that Guyana Government is not obligated to provide any airfare of a deportee and as such the responsibility is on that person to fund their own passage back to their home country.
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