The Federal Government is planning to establish electronic surveillance posts at different locations to monitor the nations borders.
The Minister of Interior, Ra’uf Aregbesola said this in Abuja, when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum.
Aregbesola said that the electronic surveillance posts were meant to strengthen existing immigration checks, to enhance the security of the country. As a matter of fact, we are at the point of signing an agreement with Huawei on e-border. This means we want to employ technology to put all the critical border positions on 24/7 satellite-based electronic surveillance”.
This will give us 24/7 real-time surveillance of designated border areas from all our monitoring centres, particularly the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Headquarters. You can as well press a button and know what is happening in Kamba border post, Jibia border and even Mfum among others, he further said.
Aregbesola said Nigerians should appreciate that the country has one of the longest borders in Africa. However, he assured Nigerians that when deployed, e-border monitoring and surveillance would greatly curtail the rate of cross border crimes and other criminal activities.
The Minister further assured that the Federal Government was committed to ensuring the safety of all citizens, adding that the NIS, in conjunction with other sister agencies, would continue to do their best in curtailing illegal migration and all cross-border criminalities.
