Daniel Kiunsi, a Tanzanian immigrant is going to launch legal action against the UK Government seeking a £11 million compensation for making him unhappy. He claims that the officials had violated his human rights by confiscating his passport three years ago.
Mr Kiunsi says that the confiscation had caused him and his family 'great unhappiness' and insisted that the authorities should have provided for their 'basic needs' such as food, rent, council tax bills and other costs.
He arrived at the figure of £11 million saying that his calculation were based on scientific reasoning which uses internationally accepted methods and has issued a claim with the High Court in London.
The electrical engineer, who is in his forties, had been in the UK on a work visa but left to take a job overseas. When he returned, officials seized his passport as he didn’t qualify to re-enter.
He was allowed to enter into the country for making arranging for his family to leave but was still in the UK.
Kiunsi, who lives in Upminster, Essex, is citing his right to liberty, a fair trial and private and family life — plus human rights laws relating to 'torture or inhuman or degrading treatment'.
He told The Sun that it was an issue of the happiness.
The UK Border Agency said that they were going to fight it tooth and nail.