By JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU & JOSEPH ERUNKE

ABUJA — THE Senate, yesterday, said it would not take action over the proposed 3,000 pounds visa bond by the United Kingdom until the British government implements the policy.

The proposed visa bond, according to the British Government, is aimed at check-mating immigrants from Nigeria and some few countries who travel to the United Kingdom, but fail to adhere to the visa rules.

With the policy in place, travellers who flout their immigration law will be made to forfeit the deposit of 3000 pounds to the government of Britain.

But disturbed that the proposed UK policy affects Nigerian travellers despite Nigeria’s diplomatic relations with Britain, the Senate said it was important to deliberate on the issue and take decision.

The motion, which was tabled before Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senator Matthew Nwagwu, was defered on grounds that the proposed policy was yet to be implemented.

Senator Matthew Nwagwu, PDP, Imo North, in his lead debate, expressed concern over the development, noting that it was capable of negatively affecting the existing relations between Nigeria and Britain.

He noted that both Nigeria and Britain were members of the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Nations, besides being signatories to several international conventions and agreements.

He added that the constitution of the Nigeria forbids discrimination against any Nigerian for whatever reason.

Nwagwu lamented that in spite of laws and conventions which the United Kingdom was a signatory, the same UK government had announced the imposition of 3000 pounds visa bond on Nigerians citizens travelling to United Kingdom for the first time.