BREAKING: Senate bans UK from sending prisoners back to Nigeria

The Senate has placed a ban on the transfer of Nigerian citizens imprisoned in the United Kingdom back to the country. The Senate came to this resolution following a motion moved by deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu.

The motion was titled “Urgent need to regularize the agreement between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the government of the United Kingdom”.

It held that it was an unfair trade for the UK to return prisoners to Nigeria when the country has no British prison in Nigerian prisons.

Senator James Manager held that the bill should be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Foreign affairs and Minister of justice to get the best out of it.

The Senate then resolved to summon the attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice Abubakar Malami and the minister of interior Dambazzau.

The senators are to explain what the federal government is doing to regularize the transfer of prisoners between the two countries.