‘African tribe’ served with second eviction notice

A self-styled “African tribe” have been served with a second eviction notice after moving from their previous camp to a new site in the Scottish Borders.

The so-called Kingdom of Kubala were evicted from privately-owned land near Jedburgh on Tuesday – but simply moved over a small fence and set up another base nearby.

Scottish Borders Council began legal action to evict them after establishing that the new camp was on land owned by the local authority.

The group have now been told that they have until noon on Monday to leave.

Jedburgh councillor Scott Hamilton, deputy leader of Scottish Borders Council, said if the group do not leave by that point the council would consider its options -including seeking an order from a sheriff.

Ghanaian Kofi Offeh, 36, and Jean Gasho, 42, who is originally from Zimbabwe, first arrived in the Jedburgh area in the spring.

Describing themselves as King Atehehe and Queen Nandi, they set up camp on a hillside above the town in the Scottish Borders.

They were joined by “handmaiden” Kaura Taylor, from Texas, who calls herself Asnat.

The group claimed ancestral rights to land and insisted that the Kingdom of Kubala had been born.

Mr Offeh previously said he was “not afraid” of the warrant for their eviction.

In a post on Facebook, they said: “The Kingdom of Kubala can never be destroyed.”