British secret agency, M16, police proposed £3,000 visa bond against Nigeria.

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.