A NIGERIAN asylum seeker staged an eight-hour rooftop protest after immigration officers turned up at his family home early yesterday.
Steve Umoru, 43, clambered through a skylight window and then scrambled along the roofs on Dodworth Road.
Mr Umoru has been in Barnsley with his wife Juliette for three or four years, friends said. They have two daughters Divine, seven, and Princess 16-months. The family attends St George's Church and on Sunday Mr Omoru had played Jesus in a church production.
While on the rooftops he spoke to the Chronicle and said his protest was to protect his family. Divine would be killed if the family was sent home to the Muslim country because of their Christian faith, he said.
"I am not a criminal. I don't know why we are being treated this way. I came here to have protection. Instead of protecting me they are making it worse.
"We will all die if we go back to Nigeria where people have said they wanted to use my son for sacrifice. I told them all these things but there is no protection.
"I will jump if the need arises.
