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British Secret Agency, M16, Police proposed £3,000 Visa Bond Against nigeria by phoneport(m): 11:26am On Sep 02, 2013
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.
Re: British Secret Agency, M16, Police proposed £3,000 Visa Bond Against nigeria by TUMIC(m): 11:35am On Sep 02, 2013
why do most countries hate Nigeria so much?
Re: British Secret Agency, M16, Police proposed £3,000 Visa Bond Against nigeria by idupaul: 12:08pm On Sep 02, 2013
TUMIC: why do most countries hate Nigeria so much?

Look around U and u will know
Re: British Secret Agency, M16, Police proposed £3,000 Visa Bond Against nigeria by Horus(m): 12:51pm On Sep 02, 2013
TUMIC: why do most countries hate Nigeria so much?

They believe that Nigeria = Corruption

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