A report from a United Kingdom based journal, University World News,
has said the £3,000 visa pilot scheme against Nigeria was proposed by
the British intelligence service, MI6 and British police headquarters at
Scotland Yard.
The new UK visa scheme will impose £3,000
(US$4,740) in charges on unspecified visa applicants thought to be ‘high
risk visitors’ from Nigeria, Ghana, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
The Nigerian government has threatened retaliatory measures if London goes ahead with the ‘refundable’ but unpopular visa bond.
The
report said there was palpable anger and disappointment among Nigerians
who have gained admission into British universities for the upcoming
academic session.
Students already in UK institutions are also
unhappy about a new ‘visa bond’ scheme to be implemented against ‘high
risk’ visitors by the David Cameron’s administration.
As a
precautionary measure, many parents have instructed Nigerian banks to
suspend, for now, sending tuition and accommodation fees to British
universities, the report noted.
The report written by Professor
Tunde Fatunde, a Nigerian scholar quoted diplomatic sources in Abuja, as
saying that both the M16 and the
Scotland Yard, are reportedly
worried that some foreign students who apply for visas to study in
British universities have developed, in their home countries, ideas and
determination to commit terrorism on British soil.
The report
said, the visa bond is believed to be a subtle way of ensuring that
students who are labelled as ‘high risk’ know that they will be targets
of intelligence surveillance while they are studying at British
universities.
It quoted a diplomat, who did not want to be named,
as saying that Ghana was included on the ‘high risk’ country list
because its airport and seaports were thought to be avenues for Latin
American drug cartels who use some Ghanian students as drug couriers.
The same diplomat said some students from Nigeria, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh had been involved in terrorism in Britain.
He
cited the examples of Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, a Nigerian and former
student of University College London, who tried to blow up an American
plane in December 2009, and student Michael Adebolajo, a Nigerian-born
Briton, who recently hacked a British soldier to death.
“The British government is convinced that the use of visa bond may go a long way to make Britain safe,” the diplomat said.
The
diplomat also revealed that the visa bonds would be extended to some
non-students thought to be high risk and hinted that British embassies
might collaborate with local intelligence services in collecting
evidence on some visa applicants.
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