The man, who gave his name as Hasibullah, from Afghanistan, said he was among a group of 45 migrants who were removed from the Manston immigration center in Kent and taken to Victoria bus station. The Home Office has confirmed that more than 1,000 people have been moved from the overcrowded immigration processing area in the past five days. “They tell us ‘you go by bus’,” he told Sky News. “We know we’re going to London, but we don’t know where.” Speaking outside the hotel in Norwich where 11 members of the group were eventually taken, Hasibullah said they had not been given instructions or directions. “When we get to London, the driver says ‘get out’. Then we don’t know where we’re going,” he said. Asked if the officials told them they were going to a hotel, he replied: “No, they didn’t tell us a hotel or a house.” Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been criticized for conditions at Manston, which is designed to house a maximum of 1,600 people – but has been used to house around 3,500 people for weeks. Ms Braverman visited the center on Thursday and confirmed that “immediate” steps were being taken to improve the situation at Manston. The group was found by a volunteer from a homeless charity, who alerted the Home Office and helped arrange transport to Norwich for those unable to stay with friends or family. Volunteer Danial Abass told Sky correspondent Shamaan Freeman-Powell he was on a routine walk to feed the homeless on Tuesday when he was approached by people who were “disoriented, desperate and completely lost” near Victoria bus station. Use Chrome browser for more accessible video player 0:58 Braverman visits Manston “It was really a very disturbing and painful sight to see.” He said many of the men were wearing flip-flops, gray tracksuits, ID tags around their arms and “large blue industrial bin bags with no jackets or socks”. Mr Abass said he took one of the men to Primark in Oxford Street and bought him jackets, shoes, clothes, hats and dinner from McDonald’s. Image: People believed to be migrants are pictured at the Manston facility Mr Abass said he understood the bus arrived in London from Manston and that the majority of passengers had contacts and addresses to go to London, but 11 of them had nowhere to go. He added that the group believed they were heading to a hotel in London and would then be taken to an asylum interview in Croydon. Read more: Suella Braverman and the immigration controversy explained that illegal immigration is out of control, Braverman claims Mr Abbass was then told by the Home Office to take the group to Norwich by taxi. A Home Office spokesman said: “The welfare of those in our care is of the utmost importance and asylum seekers are only released from Manston when we have assurances that they have accommodation to go to. “We worked at a pace to find accommodation for the individuals as soon as we were informed, and they are now in accommodation and being supported.”
