Liverpool Bridge is decreasing down, Falling down, decreasing down, Liverpool Bridge is decreasing down, My own fair… Pretty much every prepared particular person is familiar with the original room rhyme “London Bridge Is actually Falling Down” which in turn refers to the particular collapsing Liverpool Bridgeand efforts, reasonable or fanciful, to fix it. Several practices happen to be superior to explain the meaning of the rhyme along with personality of the “fair lady” of the refrain.
Nonetheless, the meaning of the rhyme along with personality of the ‘fair lady’ are not mysteries with the normal Nigerian passenger upon in whose experience the particular Liverpool bridge has flattened.
Rated
the 6th largest oil producing nation in the world, Nigeria is also
termed the “Giant of Africa” and its dense population makes it the most
populous black nation in the world. But it does appear that all the
appellations are nothing but self-adulation as they hold no sway
whenever America and Britain decide to impose varying degrees of
sanctions on the nation.
Saturday Vanguard’s LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU, in this special report, samples opinions regarding the recent imposition of 3,000 Pounds Sterling Travel bonds on Nigerians by the Government of the United Kingdom.
Again, Britain has sneezed and sent shivers down the spines of Nigerians. Like in some theatrical stance, both countries have continued to demonstrate that once upon a time, they lived as mother and daughter. And so, from time to time, Britain stirs up a controversy suggestive of the fact that She “discovered”, colonized and reluctantly later gave independence to Nigeria.
Just on Monday this week, news made the rounds that the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) had plans to impose 3,000 pounds as travel bonds on the citizens of six countries, among them Nigeria, Ghana, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, Pakistan and India.
While Nigeria and Ghana are West-African countries, the rest are Asian – all bearing the tag “high risk” countries. Interestingly, the other countries were also colonized by Britain and so, with that, are tucked into the conglomerate of the Commonwealth Nations.
But that is an intimacy that seems to be lost on the home policy of the British Government each time the need arises. Instead, Britain always appears brutish and lashes out heavily on these countries. Such was the case when the country came up with the new travel policy during the week.
Hear the British Home Secretary, Ms. Theresa May, who said: “This is the next step in making sure our immigration system is more selective, bringing down net migration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands, while still welcoming the brightest and the best to Britain.”
She added: “In the long run, we’re interested in a system of bonds that deters overstaying and recovers costs if a foreign national has used our public services.
“Consequently, from November, a pilot scheme which will target visitors from those countries who will have to pay the UK government a form of cash guarantee or deposit to deter immigration abuse will commence. They will forfeit the £3,000 if they overstay in Britain and fail to return to their home countries by the time their visa has expired.”
Apart from security reasons which many believe prompted the charges, sources also disclosed that the Home Office of the British Government might as well be targeting countries with high volumes of visitor visa applications and what it deems to be relatively high levels of fraud and abuse.
Meanwhile, the development came as a shock even though it wasn’t the first time the British Government would be imposing stringent sanctions on the country. Since then, a lot of concerns have been raised by Nigerians just as some democratic institutions such as the National Assembly, in stout defence of Nigerian citizens in Britain, have also threatened to reciprocate the hostile measure.
A peep into history indicates that in September 1986, the Margaret Thatcher administration decided, at the end of a cabinet meeting that in future, travelers from Nigeria, India, Ghana, Bangladesh and Pakistan would need to obtain visas in their own countries before traveling.
Before the 1986 decision, nationals of all Commonwealth nations, except Sri Lanka, did not need visas to travel to the UK.
Justifying the decision, Home Secretary at the time, Douglas Hurd, said: “We have to have immigration checks, and I think it is more sensible that these checks are carried out before someone sets off on a journey.”
Reacting, the opposition Labour Party described the Thatcher government decision on visa requirements for the five countries as racist. Then shadow home secretary in the Labour Party, Gerald Kaufman, said: “It is typical of this government that in future, white visitors from racialist South Africa will be able to come here without a visa while a visa will be required for parents and other family members of British citizens living and working in this country.”
But as the country heats up, many Nigerians have evaluated the measure and appear divided in their views. While some bemoaned the UK government’s decision, many lashed out at the Nigerian Government and the elite whom they said had not made the country any better for the people.
They were also emphatic about the dilapidated social infrastructure and poor living conditions which the government has refused to improve on.
But at the time of filing this report, there were speculations that the British government might rescind the decision – though no step in that direction had been taken.
Meanwhile, Saturday Vanguard exclusively sought the views of some Nigerians on the issue and below were the excerpts of that encounter.
Must we go to UK?—Ambassador Leo Okougwu, Ex-Nigerian Envoy to Romania and Bulgaria
If you are going to a foreign country, you prepare for it. If you are overstaying, then please, ask the host country, let them know that you are overstaying and this is the reason why you are overstaying. It is a very simple exercise. But if you are overstaying and the country doesn’t know that you are overstaying, it is wrong.
If our Legislators made a law saying that this will happen if you overstay in Nigeria, you have to pay a certain amount of money, then that has to do with the sovereignty of that country. But if you don’t want it that way, you must put certain things about other countries intoconsideration before enacting your legislations. If the British did that and looked at the circumstances in that case and then said, because of the experience we have been having, this is what we are going to do and they come up with a regulation and it is approved by their parliament and you said you are going to oppose it?
If you want to go there and they said you have to deposit 3,000 pounds and you said you don’t have it, then, don’t go. Are they forcing you to come? Must you go? Why must you go because you have money and next door, you have people suffering? What for?
Develop your own tourism industry. Look at your hospitals. Equip them. I tell you that the people you are going to meet in UK hospitals might be Nigerian doctors. But why are they there? It is because you are not encouraging them to come back home by having bad hospitals; by having tacitly equipped hospitals. That’s why most of them are there. Encourage your doctors to come home and do what they have to do.
Blame it on the leaders —Dr. Ogbonnaya Onuoha
The decision taken by the British is born out of national security and national interest . Maybe there is national pride to stop other nationals of countries of the world from getting quick
access into their country. If we have a good country, which I think we do, but the leaders are not as good in their intervention as what we have in other countries, it’s up to them to now ask the government why it is so.
Nigerian leaders should bury their heads in shame—Annkio Briggs, Social Crusader and Human Rights Activist
Any government official that is arguing the demand that the British government is making should know they have every right to make that demand. If Nigeria doesn’t like it, they should also make the same demand on the British citizens. But I think the government officials should be ashamed of themselves that they are spending time arguing over this issue.
It is actually an embarrassment to all Nigerians that we are singled out in this manner and it is because of the lack of accountability and the failure of government that has made this possible. It is not your fault, it’s not the market man’s fault; it is the fault of the Senators and the members of House that are now arguing the point. You see, you and I don’t have that luxury. The man in the community and in the market doesn’t have that luxury.
It is up to you and I, the man on the street, the man in the market to make sure that our so-called politicians and the elected don’t abandon us and fly out, and how do we do it? We do it by taking power, by having people’s power and insisting that everybody must get medical care here. That way, we will make sure that our hospitals work and our roads are good.
As a human being and as somebody who will speak up against injustice, whether in Nigeria or outside of Nigeria, I think that we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the United Kingdom is a country and therefore like Nigeria.
And the United Kingdom is a country governed by its own rules and regulations. The UK, like Nigeria, has the right to change its laws when it suits them against whomever they choose. The British government must have a reason why it proposes this. But to someone who is aware, we know that people, not just Nigerians, but people seeking greener pastures travel to other countries like Europe and America.
All over Europe and America, people are dying in the desert trying to get to places like Italy, Turkey and places like that. When you look at that, you can begin to see why any country would want to make sure that only the people they permit are in their country and that when they tell you to come in for six months, or for two months, or two weeks for medical reasons or for education or whatever, when you finish that you will go.
The fact that people have overstayed and continue to over –stay, whether we like it or not, is a strain on the country. It is an economic strain on them. It is a social strain on them in the sense that, fair enough, there was the issue of the young man who strapped a bomb to himself on his way to America. The only reason why he boarded was to blow off the plane.
This was a young man who traveled to the UK for studies, for exposure. He got exposed in the UK and also had some level of contacts while he was in Nigeria.
Then recently, the young man who is a Nigerian by the fact that his parents are Nigerians but was born in the United Kingdom, tried to blow up a plane. So I am just trying to say that if this is happening in Nigeria, what will Nigerians do? Nigerians would be shutting their borders so that people from Niger, people from Mali, Chad or Cameroon do not cross into Nigeria illegally and perpetrate terrorist acts in Nigeria.
It is a serious punishment on Nigeria and Nigerians —Chief Sam Nkire, National Chairman of the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA)
I think the leadership of this country must protect its citizens. It is a serious punishment on Nigerians and Nigeria has come a long way with Britain. Nigeria was colonized by Britain and so many Nigerians live in Britain and we haven’t been found wanting. We have always seen Britain as our second home. So it will be very sad to have that kind of imposition. If Britain wants to do that to other countries, I don’t think it is right to do it to Nigeria.
I don’t think that should happen because it is a free world. If a Briton wants to live in Nigeria, he is free to do that. If a Nigerian wants to live in Britain, it is up to him. I don’t think there should be any restriction. People should treat others fairly and equitably.
FG must protect Nigerian citizens….Chief Victor Umeh, National Chairman, All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA
Our Government must protect Nigerian citizens. That is very terrible. It is like asking Nigerians not to come to the UK anymore. So, I believe that our Ministry of Foreign Affairs with our Government will be able to liaise with the British Government and get that policy rescinded.
You canot restrict people from exercising their freedom of choice of places where they can get treatments if they can afford those treatments. But the important thing is that the pressure is on the Government of Nigeria to make our medical facilities excellent so that people can go to hospitals here, get treated and then go home without wanting to go abroad. If our medical facilities are functional and
good enough, there will be no need for anybody to travel out of the country.
It shows the failure of Nigerian Government—Dr. Oladimeji Lawal, Public Administration, Gombe State University
It is a wake-up call for the country that we should build our nation. We should understand the fact that there is no place in the world that can never be a home. What the UK government attempted to do is a demonstration of a serious country that is concerned about the influx of people into its territory, that is concerned about the wellbeing of its people and its infrastructure. So, it is not a reason why Nigeria should be crazy about the UK asking you to come with 3,000 pounds and all of that. I mean, there is no big deal about it.
It is not a must that you should travel out of the country. It is not a must that you go and stay in another man’s land. Discover your own, make it attractive and people will be looking forward to staying with us, working and living with us if we have a comfortable environment. What they have simply told us is that we cannot continue to rely on them and then we should look inwards, develop our society, make our society comfortable for people to stay, work and live.
So, there is no justification for the cry. It is their country and they have made a policy as regards how they want to run their country, the kind of people they want to admit into their territory and how long they want you to stay. In terms of International Relations, it is a demonstration of a serious, focused country. So, if we think we are very responsible as a country, whether we go in there or not, it doesn’t matter.
This is even time to reciprocate what the UK has done by saying that the British national will have some millions of Naira before coming into Nigeria to know whether we are the ones that will feel the effect or them. The reactions of some Nigerians to this development these few days practically demonstrates that our governments at all levels are not serious of building a society where we find comfort and live peacefully.
It is insult on Nigerian people—--Comrade Yinka Odumakin, Human Rights Activist
It is a gratuitous insult on the people of Nigeria by the dwindled British Empire. If after all the years of colonizing Nigeria the Brits think they have not milked us enough, the Nigerian Government should bare its teeth against British interests in Nigeria. When Abacha stopped British Airways from flying to Nigeria, London had to beg.
Bottom-line:
Whether or not Britain reverses the decision, one thing the move has succeeded in doing is telling the Nigerian government and the elite who junket to the UK and similar places on a whim that the time to develop local infrastructure is long over due.
A country that got her independence 53 years ago, in the reckoning of many Nigerians, ought to have made itself the envy of the world. Once again, the President Goodluck Jonathan administration has been challenged to live up to its mandate.
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Rated the actual 6 major oil creating region on the planet, Nigeria is usually named the actual “Giant associated with Africa” as well as thick population makes it probably the most populous dark region on the planet. But it may glimpse that every the actual appellations usually are nothing but self-adulation since they carry no swing each time America along with Britain opt to enforce different degrees of sanctions for the region.Saturday Vanguard’s LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU, in this special report, samples opinions regarding the recent imposition of 3,000 Pounds Sterling Travel bonds on Nigerians by the Government of the United Kingdom.
Again, Britain has sneezed and sent shivers down the spines of Nigerians. Like in some theatrical stance, both countries have continued to demonstrate that once upon a time, they lived as mother and daughter. And so, from time to time, Britain stirs up a controversy suggestive of the fact that She “discovered”, colonized and reluctantly later gave independence to Nigeria.
Just on Monday this week, news made the rounds that the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) had plans to impose 3,000 pounds as travel bonds on the citizens of six countries, among them Nigeria, Ghana, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, Pakistan and India.
While Nigeria and Ghana are West-African countries, the rest are Asian – all bearing the tag “high risk” countries. Interestingly, the other countries were also colonized by Britain and so, with that, are tucked into the conglomerate of the Commonwealth Nations.
But that is an intimacy that seems to be lost on the home policy of the British Government each time the need arises. Instead, Britain always appears brutish and lashes out heavily on these countries. Such was the case when the country came up with the new travel policy during the week.
Hear the British Home Secretary, Ms. Theresa May, who said: “This is the next step in making sure our immigration system is more selective, bringing down net migration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands, while still welcoming the brightest and the best to Britain.”
She added: “In the long run, we’re interested in a system of bonds that deters overstaying and recovers costs if a foreign national has used our public services.
“Consequently, from November, a pilot scheme which will target visitors from those countries who will have to pay the UK government a form of cash guarantee or deposit to deter immigration abuse will commence. They will forfeit the £3,000 if they overstay in Britain and fail to return to their home countries by the time their visa has expired.”
Apart from security reasons which many believe prompted the charges, sources also disclosed that the Home Office of the British Government might as well be targeting countries with high volumes of visitor visa applications and what it deems to be relatively high levels of fraud and abuse.
Meanwhile, the development came as a shock even though it wasn’t the first time the British Government would be imposing stringent sanctions on the country. Since then, a lot of concerns have been raised by Nigerians just as some democratic institutions such as the National Assembly, in stout defence of Nigerian citizens in Britain, have also threatened to reciprocate the hostile measure.
A peep into history indicates that in September 1986, the Margaret Thatcher administration decided, at the end of a cabinet meeting that in future, travelers from Nigeria, India, Ghana, Bangladesh and Pakistan would need to obtain visas in their own countries before traveling.
Before the 1986 decision, nationals of all Commonwealth nations, except Sri Lanka, did not need visas to travel to the UK.
Justifying the decision, Home Secretary at the time, Douglas Hurd, said: “We have to have immigration checks, and I think it is more sensible that these checks are carried out before someone sets off on a journey.”
Reacting, the opposition Labour Party described the Thatcher government decision on visa requirements for the five countries as racist. Then shadow home secretary in the Labour Party, Gerald Kaufman, said: “It is typical of this government that in future, white visitors from racialist South Africa will be able to come here without a visa while a visa will be required for parents and other family members of British citizens living and working in this country.”
But as the country heats up, many Nigerians have evaluated the measure and appear divided in their views. While some bemoaned the UK government’s decision, many lashed out at the Nigerian Government and the elite whom they said had not made the country any better for the people.
They were also emphatic about the dilapidated social infrastructure and poor living conditions which the government has refused to improve on.
But at the time of filing this report, there were speculations that the British government might rescind the decision – though no step in that direction had been taken.
Meanwhile, Saturday Vanguard exclusively sought the views of some Nigerians on the issue and below were the excerpts of that encounter.
Must we go to UK?—Ambassador Leo Okougwu, Ex-Nigerian Envoy to Romania and Bulgaria
If you are going to a foreign country, you prepare for it. If you are overstaying, then please, ask the host country, let them know that you are overstaying and this is the reason why you are overstaying. It is a very simple exercise. But if you are overstaying and the country doesn’t know that you are overstaying, it is wrong.
If our Legislators made a law saying that this will happen if you overstay in Nigeria, you have to pay a certain amount of money, then that has to do with the sovereignty of that country. But if you don’t want it that way, you must put certain things about other countries intoconsideration before enacting your legislations. If the British did that and looked at the circumstances in that case and then said, because of the experience we have been having, this is what we are going to do and they come up with a regulation and it is approved by their parliament and you said you are going to oppose it?
If you want to go there and they said you have to deposit 3,000 pounds and you said you don’t have it, then, don’t go. Are they forcing you to come? Must you go? Why must you go because you have money and next door, you have people suffering? What for?
Develop your own tourism industry. Look at your hospitals. Equip them. I tell you that the people you are going to meet in UK hospitals might be Nigerian doctors. But why are they there? It is because you are not encouraging them to come back home by having bad hospitals; by having tacitly equipped hospitals. That’s why most of them are there. Encourage your doctors to come home and do what they have to do.
Blame it on the leaders —Dr. Ogbonnaya Onuoha
The decision taken by the British is born out of national security and national interest . Maybe there is national pride to stop other nationals of countries of the world from getting quick
access into their country. If we have a good country, which I think we do, but the leaders are not as good in their intervention as what we have in other countries, it’s up to them to now ask the government why it is so.
Nigerian leaders should bury their heads in shame—Annkio Briggs, Social Crusader and Human Rights Activist
Any government official that is arguing the demand that the British government is making should know they have every right to make that demand. If Nigeria doesn’t like it, they should also make the same demand on the British citizens. But I think the government officials should be ashamed of themselves that they are spending time arguing over this issue.
It is actually an embarrassment to all Nigerians that we are singled out in this manner and it is because of the lack of accountability and the failure of government that has made this possible. It is not your fault, it’s not the market man’s fault; it is the fault of the Senators and the members of House that are now arguing the point. You see, you and I don’t have that luxury. The man in the community and in the market doesn’t have that luxury.
It is up to you and I, the man on the street, the man in the market to make sure that our so-called politicians and the elected don’t abandon us and fly out, and how do we do it? We do it by taking power, by having people’s power and insisting that everybody must get medical care here. That way, we will make sure that our hospitals work and our roads are good.
As a human being and as somebody who will speak up against injustice, whether in Nigeria or outside of Nigeria, I think that we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the United Kingdom is a country and therefore like Nigeria.
And the United Kingdom is a country governed by its own rules and regulations. The UK, like Nigeria, has the right to change its laws when it suits them against whomever they choose. The British government must have a reason why it proposes this. But to someone who is aware, we know that people, not just Nigerians, but people seeking greener pastures travel to other countries like Europe and America.
All over Europe and America, people are dying in the desert trying to get to places like Italy, Turkey and places like that. When you look at that, you can begin to see why any country would want to make sure that only the people they permit are in their country and that when they tell you to come in for six months, or for two months, or two weeks for medical reasons or for education or whatever, when you finish that you will go.
The fact that people have overstayed and continue to over –stay, whether we like it or not, is a strain on the country. It is an economic strain on them. It is a social strain on them in the sense that, fair enough, there was the issue of the young man who strapped a bomb to himself on his way to America. The only reason why he boarded was to blow off the plane.
This was a young man who traveled to the UK for studies, for exposure. He got exposed in the UK and also had some level of contacts while he was in Nigeria.
Then recently, the young man who is a Nigerian by the fact that his parents are Nigerians but was born in the United Kingdom, tried to blow up a plane. So I am just trying to say that if this is happening in Nigeria, what will Nigerians do? Nigerians would be shutting their borders so that people from Niger, people from Mali, Chad or Cameroon do not cross into Nigeria illegally and perpetrate terrorist acts in Nigeria.
It is a serious punishment on Nigeria and Nigerians —Chief Sam Nkire, National Chairman of the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA)
I think the leadership of this country must protect its citizens. It is a serious punishment on Nigerians and Nigeria has come a long way with Britain. Nigeria was colonized by Britain and so many Nigerians live in Britain and we haven’t been found wanting. We have always seen Britain as our second home. So it will be very sad to have that kind of imposition. If Britain wants to do that to other countries, I don’t think it is right to do it to Nigeria.
I don’t think that should happen because it is a free world. If a Briton wants to live in Nigeria, he is free to do that. If a Nigerian wants to live in Britain, it is up to him. I don’t think there should be any restriction. People should treat others fairly and equitably.
FG must protect Nigerian citizens….Chief Victor Umeh, National Chairman, All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA
Our Government must protect Nigerian citizens. That is very terrible. It is like asking Nigerians not to come to the UK anymore. So, I believe that our Ministry of Foreign Affairs with our Government will be able to liaise with the British Government and get that policy rescinded.
You canot restrict people from exercising their freedom of choice of places where they can get treatments if they can afford those treatments. But the important thing is that the pressure is on the Government of Nigeria to make our medical facilities excellent so that people can go to hospitals here, get treated and then go home without wanting to go abroad. If our medical facilities are functional and
good enough, there will be no need for anybody to travel out of the country.
It shows the failure of Nigerian Government—Dr. Oladimeji Lawal, Public Administration, Gombe State University
It is a wake-up call for the country that we should build our nation. We should understand the fact that there is no place in the world that can never be a home. What the UK government attempted to do is a demonstration of a serious country that is concerned about the influx of people into its territory, that is concerned about the wellbeing of its people and its infrastructure. So, it is not a reason why Nigeria should be crazy about the UK asking you to come with 3,000 pounds and all of that. I mean, there is no big deal about it.
It is not a must that you should travel out of the country. It is not a must that you go and stay in another man’s land. Discover your own, make it attractive and people will be looking forward to staying with us, working and living with us if we have a comfortable environment. What they have simply told us is that we cannot continue to rely on them and then we should look inwards, develop our society, make our society comfortable for people to stay, work and live.
So, there is no justification for the cry. It is their country and they have made a policy as regards how they want to run their country, the kind of people they want to admit into their territory and how long they want you to stay. In terms of International Relations, it is a demonstration of a serious, focused country. So, if we think we are very responsible as a country, whether we go in there or not, it doesn’t matter.
This is even time to reciprocate what the UK has done by saying that the British national will have some millions of Naira before coming into Nigeria to know whether we are the ones that will feel the effect or them. The reactions of some Nigerians to this development these few days practically demonstrates that our governments at all levels are not serious of building a society where we find comfort and live peacefully.
It is insult on Nigerian people—--Comrade Yinka Odumakin, Human Rights Activist
It is a gratuitous insult on the people of Nigeria by the dwindled British Empire. If after all the years of colonizing Nigeria the Brits think they have not milked us enough, the Nigerian Government should bare its teeth against British interests in Nigeria. When Abacha stopped British Airways from flying to Nigeria, London had to beg.
Bottom-line:
Whether or not Britain reverses the decision, one thing the move has succeeded in doing is telling the Nigerian government and the elite who junket to the UK and similar places on a whim that the time to develop local infrastructure is long over due.
A country that got her independence 53 years ago, in the reckoning of many Nigerians, ought to have made itself the envy of the world. Once again, the President Goodluck Jonathan administration has been challenged to live up to its mandate.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/uk-3000-visa-bond-finally-london-bridge-is-falling-down/#sthash.ywdowPed.dpuf
Sunday Vanguard’s LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU, on this particular statement, trials opinions concerning the the latest imposition associated with 3, 000 Weight Sterling Traveling provides upon Nigerians with the Govt associated with britain.
Once more, Britain possesses sneezed along with routed shivers decrease the actual spines associated with Nigerians. Such as in certain theatrical stance, each countries have got continuing to show that in the distant past, they lived as mum along with little girl. So, every now and then, Britain stirs upward any controversy suggestive that the The girl “discovered”, colonized along with unwillingly afterwards presented freedom in order to Nigeria.
Just upon Friday this particular full week, announcement manufactured the actual rounds that this Govt associated with britain (UK) acquired programs in order to enforce 3, 000 pounds as vacation provides for the residents associated with six countries, and this includes Nigeria, Ghana, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, Pakistan along with India.
Whilst Nigeria along with Ghana usually are West-African countries, the others usually are Asian kitchenware – almost all showing the actual marking “high risk” countries. Interestingly, additional countries have been additionally colonized through Britain and thus, achievable, usually are buried into your conglomerate on the Commonwealth Nations.
However that's the intimacy that looks like it's missing for the house policy on the British isles Govt every time the necessity develops. Rather, Britain usually shows up brutish along with eyelashes out there to a great extent upon most of these countries. This kind of ended up being the situation once the state invented the new vacation policy in the full week.
Listen to the actual British isles Home Admin, Milliseconds. Theresa Might, which said: “This will be phase 2 for making certain the immigration system will be much more picky, decreasing net migration from your thousands and thousands for the tens of thousands of, while still pleasant the actual best plus the far better Britain. ”
The girl included: “In the end, we’re considering something associated with provides that deters overstaying along with recovers costs if the unusual countrywide possesses employed the public services.
“Consequently, by Late, any initial structure that may focus on website visitors by these countries which should fork out the united kingdom authorities a sort of funds ensure or maybe put in in order to stop immigration mistreatment will certainly start. They'll forfeit the actual £3, 000 when they overstay in Britain along with don't go back to their property countries with the time period the visa possesses out of date. ”
Besides security good reasons which in turn a lot of feel prompted the actual fees, places additionally unveiled that this Home business office on the British isles Govt might possibly be aimed towards countries having higher volumes associated with visitor visa apps along with what exactly this deems to become comparatively higher levels of scams along with mistreatment.
At the same time, the actual development arrived like a jolt community . wasn’t the first time the actual British isles Govt would be upon stringent sanctions for the state. Since that time, lots of worries have been brought up through Nigerians in the same way several democratic companies such as the Countrywide Putting your unit together, in stout defence associated with Nigerian residents in Britain, also have vulnerable in order to reciprocate the actual dangerous gauge.
Any check out in to historical past suggests that in Sept 1986, the actual Maggie Thatcher management determined, at the conclusion of an display case achieving that in potential, vacationers by Nigeria, India, Ghana, Bangladesh along with Pakistan might need to attain visas inside their own countries before travelling.
Ahead of the 1986 selection, nationals of most Commonwealth nations, except Sri Lanka, failed to need visas to visit the united kingdom.
Justifying choosing one, Home Admin at that time, Douglas Hurd, said: “We have to have immigration investigations, along with My partner and i believe that it is much more sensible the investigations usually are accomplished before another person sets off with a vacation. ”
Re acting, the actual competitors Work Celebration explained the actual Thatcher authorities selection upon visa needs to the five countries as racist. Then shadow house admin inside Work Celebration, Gerald Kaufman, said: “It will be normal of this authorities that in potential, whitened website visitors by racialist Southerly The african continent should be able to arrive right here with not a visa while any visa will be needed for moms and dads and also other family members associated with British isles residents existing along with getting work done in this particular state. ”
However as the state gets hot, a lot of Nigerians have got considered the actual gauge and search broken down inside their sights. While some bemoaned the united kingdom government’s selection, a lot of lashed out there in the Nigerian Govt plus the high level who they said hadn't manufactured america much better to the people.
They were additionally emphatic in regards to the dilapidated societal structure along with inadequate existing ailments that the authorities possesses turned down to raise upon.
However before processing this particular statement, there have been speculations that this British isles authorities could possibly rescind choosing one – even though no step in that route had been considered.
At the same time, Sunday Vanguard entirely searched for the actual sights associated with several Nigerians for the concern along with under have been the actual excerpts of that experience.
Should most of us check out UNITED KINGDOM? —Ambassador Leo Okougwu, Ex-Nigerian Envoy in order to Romania along with Bulgaria
In case you will any unusual state, an individual prepare for this. Should you be overstaying, then you should, consult the actual web host state, make them aware that you'll be overstaying along with this is why the reason why that you are overstaying. This can be a very easy physical exercise. However in case you are overstaying plus the state doesn’t realize that you'll be overstaying, it really is incorrect.
In case the Legislators manufactured any legislations stating that this may happen in the event you overstay in Nigeria, you have to fork out plenty of dollars, then that is du to the actual sovereignty of that state. However in the event you don’t need it doing this, you must placed certain reasons for additional countries intoconsideration before enacting your regulations. If the British isles do that along with checked out the actual conditions in this case and then said, as a result of experience we've been obtaining, this is just what we're going to perform and they make a regulation in fact it is accepted through the parliament and you said you will are at odds of this?
If you would like go there and they said you have to put in 3, 000 pounds and you said an individual don’t own it, then, don’t go. Tend to be they making you to definitely arrive? You have go? Precisely why must you go when you have got dollars and then home, you've people hurting? Just what with regard to?
Develop your individual travel and leisure industry. Examine your hospitals. Adjustable rate mortgage these individuals. My partner and i show you that this people you will satisfy in UNITED KINGDOM hospitals could be Nigerian medical doctors. However the reason why usually are they there? It is because you aren't stimulating these individuals an extra chance house by having undesirable hospitals; by having tacitly equipped hospitals. That’s the reason why most of them is there. Really encourage your medical doctors to come house along with perform what exactly they need to perform.
Guilt this for the commanders —Dr. Ogbonnaya Onuoha
Choosing one considered with the British isles is born out of countrywide security along with countrywide curiosity. Possibly there is certainly countrywide pleasure to avoid additional nationals associated with countries on the entire world by obtaining speedy
access inside their state. In case we've a good state, that i imagine most of us perform, but the commanders aren't as good inside their involvement as might know about have got far away, it’s around the crooks to at this point consult the government the reason why it really is so.
Nigerian commanders must bury the heads in shame—Annkio Briggs, Cultural Crusader along with Individual Rights Activist
Any authorities standard that's quarrelling the actual requirement that this British isles authorities will be generating should be aware of they've already each directly to make that requirement. In case Nigeria doesn’t want it, they should additionally make exactly the same requirement for the British isles residents. However I think the government officers must be embarrassed associated with them selves actually hanging out quarrelling in excess of this trouble.
It happens to be the discomfort to any or all Nigerians that any of us usually are designated in doing this in fact it is as a result of deficiency of liability plus the failure associated with authorities that has manufactured this particular feasible. It isn't your fault, it’s certainly not this market man’s fault; oahu is the fault on the Senators plus the people associated with Property which are at this point quarrelling the purpose. The thing is that, an individual along with My partner and i don’t have got that high-class. The man in the neighborhood along with in the market doesn’t have got that high-class.
It really is under your control along with My partner and i, the person for the neighborhood, the person in the market to make certain that the so-called political figures plus the selected don’t get away from people along with travel out there, along with how do most of us do it? Most of us do it by removing electric power, by having people’s electric power along with making it mandatory that everyone have to receive medical care bills right here. Because of this, most of us will certainly make sure that the hospitals work along with the roadways usually are great.
Being a man so that as someone which will talk facing injustice, no matter whether in Nigeria or maybe over and above Nigeria, I think that any of us shouldn’t shed sight that the britain is usually a state and as a consequence just like Nigeria.
In addition to britain is usually a state governed through a unique rules. The united kingdom, just like Nigeria, has got the directly to change their legal guidelines whenever this fits these individuals versus whomever they decide on. The actual British isles authorities should have a reason the reason why this suggests this particular. However in order to another person that is informed, we know that individuals, not just Nigerians, nevertheless people seeking greener pastures vacation to other countries just like Europe along with America.
Across Europe along with America, everyone is passing away inside leave looking for in order to spots just like Madeira, Turkey along with spots prefer that. When you have a look at that, start to discover the reason why almost any state wants to make certain that merely individuals they make it possible for have been in the state and that once they show you to come set for half a year, or maybe for 2 a few months, or maybe fourteen days with regard to health-related good reasons or maybe with regard to education and learning or maybe what ever, whenever you end that you'll go.
The fact people have got overstayed along with keep in excess of –stay, no matter whether most of us want it or maybe certainly not, is usually a tension for the state. It really is the monetary tension in it. This can be a societal tension in it inside feeling that, fair ample, there were the situation on the child which strapped any explosive device in order to him or her self upon the approach to America. The only reason why he / she boarded ended up being in order to whack from the aircraft.
This was a man which journeyed for the UNITED KINGDOM with regard to scientific tests, with regard to exposure. He obtained exposed in the united kingdom and also acquired several level of associates while he / she is at Nigeria.
Then not long ago, the actual child that is any Nigerian through the fact the moms and dads usually are Nigerians nevertheless was given birth to in england, tried using in order to explode any aircraft. I really was simply trying to claim that if this is transpiring in Nigeria, and what will Nigerians perform? Nigerians would be concluding the borders making sure that people by Niger, people by Mali, Chad or maybe Cameroon usually do not combination in to Nigeria illegally along with perpetrate terrorist functions in Nigeria.
This can be a considerable abuse upon Nigeria along with Nigerians —Chief Sam Nkire, Countrywide Chairman on the Individuals Progressive Connections (PPA)
I think the actual command of this state have to shield their residents. This can be a considerable abuse upon Nigerians along with Nigeria possesses arrive a considerable ways having Britain. Nigeria ended up being colonized through Britain and thus a lot of Nigerians are in Britain along with most of us haven’t also been observed seeking. We now have usually seen Britain as the second house. Therefore it will likely be incredibly depressing to get that form of imposition. In case Britain wants to accomplish this to other countries, My partner and i don’t believe that it is directly to do it in order to Nigeria.
My partner and i don’t imagine that must take place due to the fact this can be a cost-free entire world. If a Briton wants to are in Nigeria, they are cost-free to accomplish this. If a Nigerian wants to are in Britain, it really is around your ex. My partner and i don’t imagine there needs to be almost any constraint. Folks must address some others relatively along with equitably.
FG have to shield Nigerian citizens…. Main Victor Umeh, Countrywide Chairman, All Progressive Great Connections, APGA
The Govt have to shield Nigerian residents. Which is incredibly dreadful. It really is just like wondering Nigerians not to arrived at the united kingdom nowadays. Therefore, I do believe our Ministry associated with Dangerous Matters with our Govt should be able to liaise using the British isles Govt and acquire that policy rescinded.
Anyone canot restrict people by doing exercises the independence of choice associated with spots where they could receive treatment options when they have enough money these treatment options. However the main thing will be that this strain will be for the Govt associated with Nigeria to generate the health-related services fantastic making sure that people can certainly check out hospitals right here, receive taken care of and then go house with no attempting to go in another country. In case the health-related services usually are well-designed along with
sufficient, there will be no requirement of everyone going out of your state.
The idea demonstrates the actual failure associated with Nigerian Government—Dr. Oladimeji Lawal, Community Supervision, Gombe Talk about University
This can be a wake-up involve america that any of us must build the region. Our nation realize the fact there is no place on the planet which could in no way be described as a house. Just what the united kingdom authorities attemptedto perform is usually a display of an considerable state that's interested in the actual say of men and women in to their area, that's interested in the actual wellness associated with their people as well as structure. Therefore, it's not necessarily a reason the reason why Nigeria must be crazy about the united kingdom asking to come having 3, 000 pounds along with all the. Come on, man, there is no huge deal regarding it.
It isn't a necessity that you simply vacation out of your state. It isn't a necessity you go along with live in an additional man’s terrain. Learn your individual, allow it to become interesting and the wonderful will be getting excited about staying with people, operating along with experiencing people in case we've an appropriate atmosphere. Just what they've already simply instructed people will be that any of us cannot keep rely on them and then our nation search inwards, create the contemporary society, make the contemporary society comfy for individuals to settle, work along with live.
Therefore, there is no reason to the be sad. It really is the state and they have got manufactured a plan in relation to just how to merely operate the state, the kind of people to merely admit inside their area along with how much time they need you to definitely stay. In terms of Intercontinental Contact, this can be a display of an considerable, aimed state. Therefore, in case most of us imagine we are incredibly dependable like a state, no matter whether most of us be put into there or maybe certainly not, this doesn’t make a difference.
This can be perhaps time for it to reciprocate what exactly the united kingdom is doing through stating that this British isles countrywide could have several an incredible number of Naira before moving into Nigeria to recognise no matter whether we are those who will certainly have the impact or maybe these individuals. The actual side effects associated with several Nigerians for this development most of these 7 days pretty much proves our authorities by any means amounts aren't considerable of building any contemporary society where most of us discover comfort and ease along with live in harmony with.
It really is insult upon Nigerian people—--Comrade Yinka Odumakin, Individual Rights Activist
This can be a gratuitous insult for the people associated with Nigeria with the dwindled British isles Empire. In case after all the actual years associated with colonizing Nigeria the actual Brits imagine they've already certainly not milked people ample, the actual Nigerian Govt must uncovered their tooth versus British isles likes and dislikes in Nigeria. Whenever Abacha quit British isles Air passages by flying in order to Nigeria, London needed to plead with.
Bottom-line:
If Britain reverses choosing one, a very important factor the actual move possesses been successful in carrying out will be revealing to the actual Nigerian authorities plus the high level which junket for the UNITED KINGDOM along with related spots with a impulse that this time for it to create nearby structure will be very long in excess of owing.
Any state that obtained the woman's freedom 53 rice, inside reckoning of countless Nigerians, need to have got manufactured themselves the actual envy on the entire world. Just as before, the actual Us president Goodluck Jonathan management may be pushed in order to surpass their mandate.
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