Farai Chigogora and NGen Youth Centre

NGen Youth Centre: Family, friends and supporters of Farai Chigogora say he is a bright, young man who was a victim of circumstances and should not have been returned to the country he left when he was 14. , according to Hamilton Spectator. Chigogora, who had been active with the NGen Youth Centre in downtown Hamilton, returned to Zimbabwe last Tuesday after a Federal Court judge rejected a last-minute stay of removal. He came to Canada in 2008 to be reunited with his mother and two younger siblings and was a permanent resident. Ottawa is defending its decision to deport a 21-year-old man to Zimbabwe who came to Canada to be reunited with his mother and ran afoul of the law. Chigogora said he pleaded guilty in 2012 to theft under $5,000 in connection with a Cayuga home invasion because of the financial and emotional strain the case put on his family. He spent 15 months in jail. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.