The Nigeria Immigration Service on Friday said it has deployed 30 operational vehicles for improved border surveillance and patrol.
According to The PUNCH, the newly-appointed Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mrs Kemi Nandap, revealed this when the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, at the service headquarters, Abuja.
Nandap said, “This investment in border security will be complimented with a rejig of our border corps architecture to include agile sector commanders to carry out consistent surveillance and patrol of our border in line with our core mandate.”
Her statement follows the reopening of Nigeria’s border with neighbouring Niger Republic.
It also comes amid heightened terrorist activities in the country’s north where killings and kidnappings have occurred frequently.
The nation has been facing waves of abductions, attacks by suspected bandits and other violent crimes, reviving calls for the establishment of a multi-level policing system, including state police.
But Nandap emphasised the role of effective border surveillance and patrol in “safeguarding our sovereignty, protecting our citizens, preserving our economic prosperity as well as facilitating regular, safe, and orderly migration.”
