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Nigeria Immigration Service is working round the clock to actualise the e-border project.
Independent reports that the Comptroller General of the Service, Kemi Nanna Nandap, said this while on assessment of borders in the state to see the situations of the borders and challenges of her staff manning the state borders.
She said the e-border permits Immigration Office to see and control data at the centre by directly getting information on the activities going on at the borders. This will ensure quick action and border security.
According to her, there is a lot to be done at the borders based on what she has seen herself. “The President should do something on the welfare of the officers at the borders because they lack accommodation, as such, their ability to effectively man the borders has been hindered,” she said.
She pointed out that a tight border guarantees tight security for the country. The need to assist immigration is therefore necessary in order to effectively monitor who goes in and out of the country.
She added that, “We have visited both land and marine borders at Lolo, Kamba and Kangiwa, what we saw is good but much needs to be done to ensure tight borders. Kebbi is a strategic place because it shares borders with two countries; that is why we have to come to see things the way they are.”
She also spoke on the issue of human traffickers that it will no longer be business as usual. Henceforth, traffickers will be prosecuted to serve as a deterrent to others with similar intentions.
