UNITED KINGDOM- based Zimbabwean comedian Muchineripi Rwizi known locally as Mr Christmas has decided to swap his sexuality to being a gay in desperate move to stop deportation.
Rwizi is awaiting deportation from the United Kingdom for the second time.
There has been wide speculation that Rwizi was now gay after he was recently spotted during a campaign for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) rights in the UK in his local town of Northampton.
This publication tried in vain to contact Rwizi with the evidence that he was now a gay rights campaigner as reported by The Northampton Chronicle paper.
Zimbabwe criminalises same-sex sexual activities.
Fears are that if Rwizi is deported, he is likely to be persecuted by government and will be disowned by his own family.
Rwizi was served with a second deportation order in 2019 after his asylum case was turned down.
Rwizi is pursuing an asylum case in the United Kingdom after he got himself into trouble in 2015 by engaging into political affairs for the then opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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The circumstances surrounding his escape from Zimbabwe are unclear but sources say he was beaten to death in a political violence incident.
Before the formation of the opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) a few months ago, Rwizi was the secretary of the MDC Alliance in the UK and Ireland Midlands South District. However, the UK immigration authorities dismissed his purported political affiliation. It is believed Rwizi has kept his alignment with the Nelson Chaimisa-led CCC.
Last year, fifty Zimbabweans deported from UK, some after they had been released from prison for various offences but thirty-six others stayed behind, raising fears that their lives would be in danger under President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government.
