The Nigeria Immigration Service says it will soon link no fewer than 84 border locations in Nigeria with e-border monitoring cameras to check illegal immigrants and other border crimes.
The NIS acting comptroller general, Isah Idris, disclosed this on Wednesday in Ibaka Mbo local government area after a tour of facilities of the control post in Akwa Ibom command.
Mr Isah, the first comptroller general of the NIS to visit the Oron control post created in 1971 and Ibaka control post created in 1996, said the e-border monitoring would start from the second quarter of 2022.
He explained that the federal government had signed an agreement with a Chinese firm to install the surveillance cameras across the locations.
According to him, monitoring borders across the country would be real-time online.
“The federal government signed the e-border agreement with a Chinese company to supply cameras in about 84 locations of our borders, to use ICT as a tool to monitor our borders, because our borders are massive,” stated the NIS boss. “So, it is only with ICT that we can monitor our borders effectively.”
(NAN)
