This follows an order by the Internal Affairs Minister Gen. Jeje Odongo on the 14th February 2019 causing his deportation.
According to Vanhellepute , the said order labelled him as an undesirous and prohibited immigrant yet he has been law abiding and has no trace of a criminal record for the 25 years he has lived in Uganda.
Vanhellepute, who was repatriated against his will to his native Belgium, has now given instructions to lawyers to file a suit demanding damages from the government for illegal detention, the violation of his rights to a fair hearing and just treatment.
Vanhellepute claims he was neither given an opportunity to explain himself to Internal Affairs Minister Gen. Jeje Odongo before signing the order that declared him unwanted in Uganda nor communicate to his Ugandan wife Barbara Adoso and two children.
Vanhelleputte says that the process used by the Minister of Internal Affairs Jeje Odongo to declare him undesirable was highhanded and arbitrary because he was never accorded a fair or just treatment before, during and after the making of the deportation order.
He also wants the court to intervene and recall his unlawful deportation because he had a valid work permit and a running visa which was due to expire in May this year.
The court is yet to allocate his case file to a judge for hearing.
Vanhelleputte’s application is supported by his wife Adoso who has attached her sworn in affidavit and a copy of their marriage certificate dated April 29, 2000.
The couple has allegedly known each other since 1993.
In her affidavit, Barbara Adoso says that her husband had never committed any offence or crime under the laws of Uganda and neither is he responsible for breaking the law.
The Belgian is the fourth employee of Uganda’s telecom giant to be deported in the last one month after being declared prohibited immigrants.
MTN staffs deported earlier include Italian national Elsa Mussolini, the former General Manager for Mobile Finance Services, French national Olivier Prentout, who was the Chief Marketing Officer at MTN-Uganda and Rwandan national Annie Bilenge Tabura, the General Manager, Sales and Distribution at MTN-Uganda.