[cc100]

makosi: terrorists are treated better than me
Big Brother's Makosi has hit out at immigration officials threatening to deport her from the country and complained:

"Terrorists are treated better than me.''

The 24-year-old Zimbabwean has been told to leave Britain for breaking the terms of her working visa.

She quit her nursing job to appear on the Channel 4 reality show.

Makosi was stopped by police on Monday over a driving matter and officers passed her on to immigration officials to be questioned about her visa.

She said: "Terrorists don't even go through that. Terrorists are paid £2,000 a week to look after their health and stuff. A lot of illegal immigrants are paid to stay in this country and are fed by taxpayers.

"I am here paying my taxes and working but I'm treated like a thug.''

Makosi said she was stopped by police on the M25 for not wearing a seatbelt.

She recalled: "They checked my details and said there was a flag on my name telling them I had overstayed my visa so they needed to take me in for questioning.

"The immigration person took four hours to come out. They took my fingerprints and a DNA swab from inside my cheek.

"I felt like a criminal. It was not nice at all.''

Makosi's visa was curtailed and she plans to launch an appeal.

The former Big Brother housemate said she hopes to return to nursing - but cannot go back yet because she is too famous.

"I have a lot of magazine and TV things coming up and I can do a lot for charity. After that I can go back to my old life,'' she explained.

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[cc100]

What does this girl think she is??

She was a contestant on a tv game show, not the UN secretary general!!

Love, get over yourself!

[Princess]

now she is just over the top

[makosifan]

Originally posted by cc100
What does this girl think she is??

She was a contestant on a tv game show, not the UN secretary general!!

Love, get over yourself!

shes just upset and i don't blame her!
Yes its her own fault for leaving her job but you can't blame her for being upset. Anyone would in her position

[lilmissnaughty]

She should get over herself.

[Ruth]

Originally posted by makosifan
shes just upset and i don't blame her!
Yes its her own fault for leaving her job but you can't blame her for being upset. Anyone would in her position

Yes, but it is her fault as you say! You can't blame the authorities for taking action. And what on earth is she on about when she says that terrorists are paid £2000 a week? Ridiculous. She says that she feels like a criminal - well if she's here illegally, does that not make her a criminal?

[Pipergun]

That's a point Ruth!

If Makosi did break the terms of her visa by resigning and joining up with Big Brother, then she should face the consequences.

Yet, on the other hand, Big Brother producers should have sat her aside and made sure she knew the consequences of her actions before she made the choice to go ahead with them.

Both fair arguments IMO.

Tom.

[Fangz]

She probably thinks laws don't apply to Princess Makosi.

[jrc]

Pompus, arrogant, saddo. Who the HELL does she think she is, not only knowingly breaking the law, but then acting like rules don't apply to her. I CERTAINLY wouldn't lose any sleep if she got booted out of the country.

[~Kizwiz~]

agreed!

[Ruth]

Originally posted by Pipergun
That's a point Ruth!

If Makosi did break the terms of her visa by resigning and joining up with Big Brother, then she should face the consequences.

Yet, on the other hand, Big Brother producers should have sat her aside and made sure she knew the consequences of her actions before she made the choice to go ahead with them.

Both fair arguments IMO.

Tom.

I agree Tom. The thing I can't understand is that surely the program makers would have known that she was breaking the terms of her visa, by giving up her job? So in that case, I'm surprised that they allowed her to appear on the show at all.

[James]

How best laid plans went awry for Makosi

Big Brother's 'schemer' runs risk of deportation to Zimbabwe

Mark Honigsbaum
Saturday September 3, 2005

The Guardian

Makosi Musambasi is no stranger to controversy.

During her stint in the Big Brother house this summer, the 24-year-old cardiac nurse from Harare went from hot favourite to win the reality television gameshow to a tabloid hate figure amid accusations that she was a professional actress and had lied about having sex with another contestant to win the public's sympathy.

But even Makosi could not have anticipated that this weekend, instead of posing topless for the News of the World, she would be facing the prospect of being stripped of her right to remain in the UK. Or could she?

The latest twist in the soap opera that is Makoski's life came last Monday when she was stopped by a policeman while travelling in a car on the M25 from her home in High Wycombe.

Although Makosi, who before entering the Big Brother house had been employed as a nurse at Wycombe hospital, was in the passenger seat she was not wearing a seatbelt. Informing her that she had committed an offence, the officer asked for her identification and she handed him her passport.

The next thing she knew she had been whisked to Staines police station where an immigation officer served her with an order informing her that her work visa had been curtailed because her employment status had changed.

She now has 10 days to appeal against the enforcement order or risk being deported to Zimbabwe.

"I'm really worried," she told the Guardian yesterday. "There are people in my country who believe I humiliated Zimbabweans by showing my tits on telly. They have something called mob justice there, you know."

The Home Office refuses to comment on individual cases, but Makosi claims it had known for months that her work status had changed.

Not only were questions about her immigration status raised by the press during her stay in the Big Brother house but on June 2, three weeks after the start of the gameshow, her former employers, Buckinghamshire NHS Trust, wrote to the Home Office informing them she had resigned her position.

"Why didn't they come into the house on June 2?" she asks, wiping away a tear. "They only had to switch on the telly to find me. Instead, they left me for three months."

But does Makosi, who has a habit of referring to herself in the third person, protest too much? The Sun certainly thinks so. Not content with labelling her a "schemer" and urging its readers to vote her off the show - she came third in the final behind Anthony Hutton and Eugene Sully - the paper yesterday called for her immediate deportation.

Despite her reputation as an actress, Makosi insists her distress is genuine. She claims that before auditioning for Big Brother she asked the hospital for a sabbatical, only for it to withdraw permission at the last moment, forcing her to resign. Realising her immigration status had changed, on leaving the show she took up the offer of free advice from Endemol, the makers of the show, and was put in touch with a law firm, Pennington's, with a view to regularising her immigration position.

This was the situation until Monday. "The officer didn't even ask me my name. He asked for my passport right away," says Makosi, hinting once again at a conspiracy. "Why else would they stop me, unless it was because we were two black girls in a car?"

Her lawyers are adamant she has done nothing wrong. Her work visa was for four years, and if she had remained at Wycombe hospital until its expiry in 2007, she would have been entitled to automatic residency.

Even after she quit the hospital to join Big Brother, her lawyers say, the Home Office could have used its discretion as the show is not ordinarily considered employment - despite the prospect of riches for the winning contestant.

"Makosi has not breached the terms of her visa," insists Philip Barth, an immigration expert at Pennington's. "Having said that, she was concerned, so she approached us for advice. We were in the process of putting her position in the UK on a regular basis when the Home Office pre-empted us."

He would be lodging an appeal in the next few days.

Meanwhile, her tears gone, Makosi has a hair appointment to keep before rushing to her next interview.

Did she have any regrets? "I'm not proud of having had sex on TV. That was a mistake," she says. "But whether working as a nurse or appearing on Big Brother, Makosi's motto has always been to help people and to entertain. Where's the crime in that?"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/st...561811,00.html

[cc100]

its not funny to talk about yourself in the 3rd person!

[jrc]

No, it somewhat portrays her as a complete and utter nutter, and we all know that's not true, don't we?

[Fangz]

Originally posted by cc100
"Terrorists are treated better than me.''

Yes, well, it's difficult to treat some terrorists at all, considering their tendency to blow themselves up. If you want to follow in their footsteps, I sure as hell won't be stopping you, as long as you aren't in range of innocent by-standers.

...(I'm a very sick person, please don't take this post too seriously.)

[Ruth]

The article says Her lawyers are adamant she has done nothing wrong. Her work visa was for four years, and if she had remained at Wycombe hospital until its expiry in 2007, she would have been entitled to automatic residency.

Erm...fair enough, but she didn't remain at the hospital until 2007! Surely that's the point.

Still at least she didn't have to miss her precious hair appointment

[jrc]

lol ruth.

[Dan_]

Get her out, she's talking complete rubbish! She has broken the rules of her visa and she serves no purpose over here.

[jrc]

Agreed.

[jrc]

Originally posted by Fangz

Yes, well, it's difficult to treat some terrorists at all, considering their tendency to blow themselves up. If you want to follow in their footsteps, I sure as hell won't be stopping you, as long as you aren't in range of innocent by-standers.

...(I'm a very sick person, please don't take this post too seriously.)

LOL!

[bananarama]

So the entire police force have been notified about Makosi. Flagged as they call it. Makosi has broken a rule maybe. But is this any reason for the authorities to go OTT. No it is not. What she has done is it any reason to give her the "Hate" she is recieveing. No it is not.

This whole Makosi deportation threat is a political exercise in conning the public that the government are on the case of illegal immigrants etc etc......It's good old fashioned political persecutaion from a police state mentality that has nothing better to do than persecute none dangerouse people for political publicity purposes.

She is right about terrorists being treated better. If it was a terrorist it would take years of court appeals to get them out if at all. As it's Makosi who did the evil thing of wondering off into a TV show. Thats a diferent kettle of fish and of course authority mentality style she should be thrown out ASAP.

People are hateful enough to support this sort of OTT persecution. Finger printing and DNA testing a game show contestent...What a wast of tax payers money and police time. No wonder they don't have the time to catch real criminals and deport people who are a real menace.

Typical of a police mentality run state a nice soft target to get themselves publicity...

[sweet-thang]

true

[CharlotteSometimes]

Originally posted by bananarama

BLAH

Total and utter drivel from start to finish. You should try stand-up.

[Ruth]

Originally posted by bananarama
So the entire police force have been notified about Makosi. Flagged as they call it. Makosi has broken a rule maybe. But is this any reason for the authorities to go OTT. No it is not. What she has done is it any reason to give her the "Hate" she is recieveing. No it is not.

This whole Makosi deportation threat is a political exercise in conning the public that the government are on the case of illegal immigrants etc etc......It's good old fashioned political persecutaion from a police state mentality that has nothing better to do than persecute none dangerouse people for political publicity purposes.

She is right about terrorists being treated better. If it was a terrorist it would take years of court appeals to get them out if at all. As it's Makosi who did the evil thing of wondering off into a TV show. Thats a diferent kettle of fish and of course authority mentality style she should be thrown out ASAP.

People are hateful enough to support this sort of OTT persecution. Finger printing and DNA testing a game show contestent...What a wast of tax payers money and police time. No wonder they don't have the time to catch real criminals and deport people who are a real menace.

Typical of a police mentality run state a nice soft target to get themselves publicity...

I don't doubt that the Police have gone way over the top in this instance. It may well be the case that stopping her for not wearing a seat belt was just an excuse. However, it doesn't alter the fact that if she is there illegally, something should be done.

However, I have to take issue with the assertion that terrorists are treated better than Makosi. If someone is arrested on alleged charges of terrorism, they have to be found guilty of that offence (as of course with any other offence). Also, where does she get her assertion that terrorists are paid £2000 per week from?

And I still don't understand why she was allowed to go on the show in the first place

[Ruth]

Forgot to say, she did rather place herself in the public eye, so the authorities were bound to take notice of her.