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Bolante Alo: Alo and Nigerian Man

bolante alo: Bolante Alo died in Calgary on Aug. 7 after an altercation with Canada Border Services Agency officers on an airplane, according to Toronto Star. The 49-year-old Nigerian man was set to be deported to his home country. Evidence submitted by Kenzie Wingert at the first of Alo's two detention hearings outlines how his refusal to co-operate with any potential deportation order escalated over time. Facebook You will have to carry me like a dead man, because I'm not going to my death, Alo is quoted as saying in evidentiary documents submitted by Wingert the legal counsel representing minister of public safety and emergency preparedness Ralph Goodale on July 26 at Alo's first detention hearing. This was his first detention hearing, administered by the immigration division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. By that point, Alo had been detained for 48 hours. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.